The Antennae Galaxies in Collision pictures from space photos on webshots

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Date uploaded: Oct 23, 2006

Two galaxies are squaring off in Corvus and here are the latest pictures. When two galaxies collide, however, the stars that compose them usually do not. This is because galaxies are mostly empty space and, however bright, stars only take up only a small amount of that space. During the slow, hundred million year collision, however, one galaxy can rip the other apart gravitationally, and dust and gas common to both galaxies does collide. In the above clash of the titans, dark dust pillars mark massive molecular clouds are being compressed during the galactic encounter, causing the rapid birth of millions of stars, some of which are gravitationally bound together in massive star clusters.

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said byaaynjcwmwj 1 months 6 days ago
Stunning--at a loss for words

said foxyfloridalady 2007.04.21 at 11:22:22 PDT
Is this how the super-sized stars are born?

said gerryhand 2007.04.21 at 04:27:33 PDT
Reminds me of marble & shiny pearls

said vincenza136 2007.01.20 at 01:09:38 PST
This is excelent photo

said Eliszewa 2006.11.11 at 11:03:05 PST