NASA and ESA have published some really nice pics of colliding galaxies. Enjoy! Holy %/$§!, the stars in the background are other galaxies. Kinda like looking into infinity. Religious leaders do not like this one. Is it a comet? Noooo, it's 300 billion stars on the move. Looks like a threesome, is just two. Takes some time after a collision to regain form. More pics are here.
Awesome!!! 300 Billion stars on the move.....I'm no math wizard, but out of 300 Billion stars you can't convince me that at least one star has planets that couldn't support some type of life. I'm not that stupid. Now consider more stars and planets forming every day - the supply is basically inexhaustable. God created Earth + mankind in a week and oh, BTW, the other meaningless galaxies too (just for shits and giggles).
You know, I remember reading somewhere that when galaxies collide, the distance between each star is so vast that none of the stars actually collide themselves Here.. I found the source link: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080420.html 2008 April 20 Spiral Galaxies in Collision Credit: Debra Meloy Elmegreen (Vassar College) et al., & the Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI/NASA) Explanation: Billions of years from now, only one of these two galaxies will remain. Until then, spiral galaxies NGC 2207 and IC 2163 will slowly pull each other apart, creating tides of matter, sheets of shocked gas, lanes of dark dust, bursts of star formation, and streams of cast-away stars. Astronomers predict that NGC 2207, the larger galaxy on the left, will eventually incorporate IC 2163, the smaller galaxy on the right. In the most recent encounter that peaked 40 million years ago, the smaller galaxy is swinging around counter-clockwise, and is now slightly behind the larger galaxy. The space between stars is so vast that when galaxies collide, the stars in them usually do not collide.
