Sunday, September 30, 2012

The Clash of the Galaxies

NGC 6745 (New General Catalog object entry 6745) is actually two galaxies colliding at high speed ("high speed" here meaning astronomical speeds, which are very fast, here in the blink of 100 million years). NGC 6745 is a tad over 200 million light years from Earth ...

We're headed at super-speed towards our own collision ... with the Andromeda Galaxy ... in about 4 billion years. Ah, good times, good times.

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