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n2doc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 06:04 PM
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A Galactic "Train Wreck"


Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / L. Lanz (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), Posted on: Wednesday, 1 June 2011, 06:46 CDT Download full size image

Three-color image of NGC 935 and its companion IC 1801 showing far-UV emission from young stars observed by GALEX in blue, heated dust mid-infrared emission observed by Spitzer in red, and stellar near-infrared emission observed by Spitzer in green. This pair of spiral galaxies is beginning to crash into each other.
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roguevalley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 06:05 PM
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1. looks like a bra on an invisible woman. :0) I love these pictures.
they are so beautiful.
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MyshkinCommaPrince Donating Member (227 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-02-11 08:14 PM
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2. Pretty cool!
How long ago did this happen, and how long did it take to play out? I'm imagining a very sloowwwww train wreck.
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