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Unprotected galaxy sex (?!?)   

Risa at 10:42 pm, October 18th, 2006

antenae

via my friend Marla (who recently wrote the only astronomy article I’ve ever seen in the Nation) comes this SFGate caption describing a new Hubble Space Telescope image of the antenae galaxies, the Brad and Angelina of colliding galaxies:

Is that a red giant or are you just happy to see me? A new Hubble image gives the sharpest view yet of the two Antennae galaxies, which are shown here basically having unprotected sex. The merging galaxies smash together, causing billions of stars to be born, mostly in clusters.

This must be more of those San Francisco values speaking.

The more detailed, PG-rated version of the caption can be found at the Hubble Site.

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  1. graviton383 on Oct 19th, 2006 at 11:35 am

    Hooray for San Francisco values! They are not too far from my native New York values…

  2. Louise on Oct 19th, 2006 at 2:29 pm

    Thank you Risa, for an informative and on-subject post. Have you been to the SF Ferry building, the new De Young, or the new SF Centre yet?

  3. Qubit on Oct 20th, 2006 at 4:15 pm

    BIG BANG
    Two galaxies make love.. and millions of new stars are born

    The Daily Mirror in the UK.

    http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/tm_method=full%26objectid=17948894%26siteid=94762-name_page.html



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