Galactic collisions result in a billion-year gravitational dance, as shown in this captivating supercomputer simulation. The simulation depicts the collision of two spiral galaxies and is complemented by actual images of galactic collisions at various stages captured by Hubble.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and F. Summers
Source: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30686
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NASA Scientific Visualization Studio - Galaxy Collisions: Simulation vs Observations
Galaxies are vast swarms of billions of stars along with huge interstellar clouds of gas and dust. A spiral galaxy has a broad, thin disk shape, with a bulge of stars in its core, Within the disk are winding arms of dark dust lanes and bright star-fo…SVS