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Galactic Collisions: Mice Galaxies

March 1st, 2008 · No Comments

It’s remarkable to think that to entities as large as galaxies could actually collide, but it does happen.  It has happened in the past, as far as we can tell.


Photo Credit: NASA, APOD

The image above is of the Mice Galaxies taken by Hubble two large spiral galaxies which are circling each other and passing through one another until they finally coallesce a few billion years from now.

Tags: Astronomy · Photography

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