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Hubble spots two galaxies rubbing off on each other
Size is always relative, and that’s especially true when it comes to outer space. We’re tiny creatures, so we think of the Earth as this incredibly large thing, with our solar system being almost impossibly large. The size of our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is hard to wrap our heads around, so when we peer into space and spot a pair of galaxies cuddling up close to each other it’s a difficult thing to grasp.
In this image captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, the cosmic feature known as Arp 293 is presented in gorgeous detail. Arp 293 is actually two separate galaxies that have drifted so close to one another that they’ve begun to share some of their material.
The two galaxies that makeup Arp 293 are NGC 6285 (on the left in the image) and NGC 6286 (on the right). From our point of view, they’re sitting virtually side-by-side. They’re far closer to one another than many galaxies we can observe from Earth, and while they’re still separated by many millions of light-years, their respective gravitational pulls are acting on the other.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 05 2019, @01:22AM
look him up. Especially his book of peculiar galaxies.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 05 2019, @01:22AM (2 children)
Is that like dry humping?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 05 2019, @07:10AM
That ain't no milky in my way.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday December 05 2019, @03:49PM
Reading only the article summary gave me this impression that whoever wrote the quoted article might be fascinated with pairs or groups of penises. At first I thought I was just reading something into it. But one would almost have to work to make so many sentences have subtle double meanings.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by JoeMerchant on Thursday December 05 2019, @02:17AM
with ~200 Billion stars in each of them... you can't begin to hope to imagine all the possible combinations.
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(Score: 3, Funny) by PinkyGigglebrain on Thursday December 05 2019, @03:38AM
where galaxies come from
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 05 2019, @07:13AM
This set is collide-ier [astronomy.com]
(Score: -1) by MyOpinion on Thursday December 05 2019, @01:24PM
The deputy manager of the Hubble program has not got eyes on his 10-billion dollar asset [youtube.com], but some youtube clown does [youtube.com]?
If you believe THAT, then man do I have some space bridges to sell you.
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