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Ultra-Powerful New WEAVE Telescope Undergoing ‘First-Light’ Spots High-Speed Cosmic Collision
The Debrief ^ | December 06, 2024 | Christopher Plain

Posted on 12/06/2024 8:51:05 AM PST by Red Badger

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To: Teacher317

Look at it this way. If our sun was the size of a green pea, the nearest star, Proxima Centauri, would be 125 miles away. Two galaxies mergering would result in few direct collisions. However both would be completely distorted with passing stars’ gravity altering all of the orbits.


21 posted on 12/06/2024 12:51:28 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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Awesome work, IMHO...


22 posted on 12/06/2024 3:55:21 PM PST by SuperLuminal
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