Saturday, 3 May 2014

Ships that didn't quite pass in the night

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Ships that didn't quite pass in the night
It makes you wonder what havoc might be being wreaked on any life that exists there.

Though I suppose over the timescales we're talking about it would be business as usual.

  #outerspace  

NASA originally shared:

Here's what happens when galaxies collide - as seen by our Chandra X-Ray Observatory:

M51 is a spiral galaxy, about 30 million light years away, that is in the process of merging with a smaller galaxy seen to its upper left.

This image is part of a "quartet of galaxies" collaboration of professional and amateur astronomers that combines optical data from amateur telescopes with data from the archives of NASA missions. 

Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Optical: Detlef Hartmann; Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech
#nasa   #chandra   #space   #universe  #galaxy #galaxies

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