Posted on 09/22/2011 8:26:17 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Explanation: Linking spiral arms, two large colliding galaxies are featured in this remarkable cosmic portrait constructed using image data from the Hubble Legacy Archive. Recorded in astronomer Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies as Arp 272, the pair is otherwise known as NGC 6050 near center, and IC 1179 at upper right. A third galaxy, likely also a member of the interacting system, can be spotted above and left of larger spiral NGC 6050. They lie some 450 million light-years away in the Hercules Galaxy Cluster. At that estimated distance, the picture spans over 150 thousand light-years. Although this scenario does look peculiar, galaxy collisions and their eventual mergers are now understood to be common, with Arp 272 representing a stage in this inevitable process. In fact, the nearby large spiral Andromeda Galaxy is known to be approaching our own galaxy and Arp 272 may offer a glimpse of the far future collision between Andromeda and the Milky Way.
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[Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive, ESA, NASA; Processing - Martin Pugh]
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Women drivers!
There’s a story behind my comment.
love to hear it.......
I see Madonna. That worries me.
You’re on your own. ;’)
She has a chaffeur, she has to, otherwise she’d be stopping the car to get acquainted with (euphemism) strangers she spots on the street and would never get anywhere.
I see a pooch. I actually have my own supernova. There is one out there with my profile. Everyone that has seen it says that it really does look like me. I am the only person I know with my own supernova.
Many years ago I was at my future wife’s family apartment. We were looking out the window and saw/hear a car start up and then hit 3 parked cars nearby.
It turned out that a guy was letting his 16 year old girl-friend drive his car in the parking lot (without a license).
She didn’t know how to drive and wiped out the place.
What made it so funny was that she had to cross a large parking lot in order to hit anything, and she did. One car was a new Mercedes or Ferrari.
We figure he lost his insurance. She’ll never get a license, and the world would be safe for a minute.
Another story. My wife, the girl in the story above, and I parked out in the middle of a very large parking lot so that I could go to the local Giant grocery store.
A woman came out of nowhere and hit our car, and we were the only car in that whole section of the lot. Did she go to school to know how to target the only car around? Then she claimed that we hit her, though we were parked and the engine was off.
Why me, God, why me?
You have a giant, nebulous, sparkly head?
Cool beyond words!
“The Scream”
:’)
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