Posted on 02/20/2024 1:26:04 PM PST by MtnClimber
Explanation: When galaxies collide, how many stars are born? For AM1054-325, featured here in a recently released image by the Hubble Space Telescope, the answer is millions. Instead of stars being destroyed as galaxy AM1054-325 and a nearby galaxy circle each other, their gravity and motion has ignited stellar creation. Star formation occurs rapidly in the gaseous debris stretching from AM1054-325’s yellowish body due to the other galaxy’s gravitational pull. Hydrogen gas surrounding newborn stars glows pink. Bright infant stars shine blue and cluster together in compact nurseries of thousands to millions of stars. AM1054-325 possesses over 100 of these intense-blue, dot-like star clusters, some appearing like a string of pearls. Analyzing ultraviolet light helped determine that most of these stars are less than 10 million years old: stellar babies. Many of these nurseries may grow up to be globular star clusters, while the bundle of young stars at the bottom tip may even detach and form a small galaxy.
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FTA: When galaxies collide, how many stars are born?
The galaxies looks like a question mark.
And to think, many humans actually think they’re above God.
I guess that thought would have some reassurance to any life forms of solar systems that have collided with another or are about to.
That pic and phrase would make a good Hallmark card.
Willie was just one of the people to record it.
I heard it played on the radio in the 1950s. It helps me remember my parents and a better time.
Thanks for correcting me, I think I’ve heard only Willie Nelson’s version.
Looks like a question mark. Maybe G-d is still working on it.
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