colliding galaxies

[Tsanten Eywa 'eveng]

Two bright galaxies on a cosmic collision path appear to be marking the occasion with a giant exclamation point in space.

The spectacular new photo shows the galactic smash-up, called  VV 340, in the early stages of collision. NASA released the cosmic crash scene and a video explaining the galaxy collision yesterday (Aug. 11).  

In the photo, the edge-on galaxy near the top of the image is VV 340 North and the face-on galaxy at the bottom of the image is VV 340 South.


picture(taken 11th of august 2011). This collision will take millions of years:

Spoiler

read more here:
http://www.space.com/12625-colliding-galaxies-exclamation-point-photo.html

[Dreamlight]

Very cool.   

['Oma Tirea]

Considering it is some 450,000,000 lightyears away, the collision has probably already happened, or at least is currently happening

[Kamean]

Awesome

[Clarke]

Considering it is some 450,000,000 lightyears away, the collision has probably already happened, or at least is currently happening

It's complicated.