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Experts Pick: Top 10 Space Science Photos
By Robert Roy Britt
Senior Science Writer
posted: 07:00 am ET
25 September 2001
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Antennae Galaxies
You only have to watch the 10 o'clock news to know that we're all suckers for
a good crash. No matter how ugly a scene of wreckage is, we watch.
CREDIT: NASA/ESA/STScI/HUBBLE |
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Hubble has spent a good chunk of its time watching similar scenes of carnage
painted on distant skies, as with these two colliding spiral galaxies.
"Anything that represents a look into a true Armageddon of galactic proportion
always fires the public imagination," Villard says.
The chaotic swirls of blues and oranges represent a firestorm of new star birth
ignited by the head-on collision of interstellar hydrogen, Villard explained.
The long arcing insect-like "antennae" represent matter flung from the scene
of the accident. "Myriad stars and planets are being forged in the crucible
of apparent chaos -- at least as seen from our distant vantage."
Hubble produced this image in October 1997.
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