Hubble telescope captures crashing galaxies

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4-24-2008 3:20 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a3a3b457-5809-45f1-97ea-533902b6157f/302C0012-F23C-49BC-8A69-A6D69D396624/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080424/sc_nm/space_hubble_dc_1" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080424/sc_nm/space_hubble_dc_1" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080424/sc_nm/space_hubble_dc_1">Images of colliding galaxies show
them spinning, sliding and slipping into one another, wreaking
stellar destruction that will give birth to new and larger
galaxies.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080424/sc_nm/space_hubble_dc_1"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.yahoo.com/img/C6111778-E5C8-4948-852B-E668557D4831" alt="NGC 520 is the product of a collision between two disk galaxies that started 300 million years ago. It exemplifies the middle stages of the merging process: the disks of the parent galaxies have merged together, but the nuclei have not yet coalesced. It features an odd-looking tail of stars and a prominent dust lane that runs diagonally across the center of the image and obscures the galaxy. NGC 520 is one of the brightest galaxy pairs on the sky, and can be observed with a small telescope towar" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080424/sc_nm/space_hubble_dc_1"><P>The <SPAN id="lw_1209064378_0" class="yshortcuts">Maryland</SPAN>-based <SPAN id="lw_1209064378_1" class="yshortcuts">Space Telescope Science Institute</SPAN>
released 59 new images from the <SPAN id="lw_1209064378_2" class="yshortcuts">Hubble Space Telescope</SPAN> on
Thursday to celebrate the 18th anniversary of its launch.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080424/sc_nm/space_hubble_dc_1"><P>"This new Hubble atlas dramatically illustrates how galaxy
collisions produce a remarkable variety of intricate structures
in never-before-seen detail," the Institute said in a
statement.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080424/sc_nm/space_hubble_dc_1"><P>"Astronomers observe only one out of a million galaxies in
the nearby universe in the act of colliding. However, galaxy
mergers were much more common long ago when they were closer
together, because the expanding universe was smaller."</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080424/sc_nm/space_hubble_dc_1">The color images, available online at
http://hubblesite.org/news/2008/16, are a look back in time.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/302C0012-F23C-49BC-8A69-A6D69D396624/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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