{"id":30504,"date":"2012-10-07T11:32:23","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T17:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/07\/when-galaxies-collide.html"},"modified":"2012-10-07T11:32:23","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T17:32:23","slug":"when-galaxies-collide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/07\/when-galaxies-collide.html","title":{"rendered":"When Galaxies Collide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beautiful. Or, if not that, the awesome, in the true meaning of the word.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/108952536790629690817'>Philip Plait<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b><a class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23BAFact\">#BAFact<\/a>: Galaxies sometimes collide, triggering massive, violent &#8211; and beautiful &#8211; bursts of star formation.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In a dance that takes a billion years to play out, entire galaxies will sometimes collide, their gravitational embrace creating havoc as they swirl to and fro. One of the best examples of this is the Antennae, two formerly spiral galaxies caught <i>in flagrante delicto<\/i> as they merge into a single object. The vast forces at work have slammed huge clouds of gas together, triggering immense regions of star formation, lighting up the pair like a cosmic neon sign.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2006\/10\/17\/worlds-galaxies-in-collision\/\" >http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2006\/10\/17\/worlds-galaxies-in-collision\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><a href='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-4I49b8t6VxY\/UHGpU0yCoiI\/AAAAAAAAO60\/cw0zT65rimQ\/antennaegalaxies.jpg'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-4I49b8t6VxY\/UHGpU0yCoiI\/AAAAAAAAO60\/cw0zT65rimQ\/antennaegalaxies.jpg' style='max-width:97.5%;clear:both;' border='0' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/j8MGk4GSTvy' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beautiful. Or, if not that, the awesome, in the true meaning of the word. Reshared post from +Philip Plait #BAFact: Galaxies sometimes collide, triggering massive, violent &#8211; and beautiful &#8211; bursts of star formation. In a dance that takes a billion years to play out, entire galaxies will sometimes collide, their gravitational embrace creating havoc &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/07\/when-galaxies-collide.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;When Galaxies Collide&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[193],"class_list":["post-30504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","tag-bafact"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":30343,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/25\/galaxies-at-the-end-of-the-universe.html","url_meta":{"origin":30504,"position":0},"title":"Galaxies at the End of the Universe","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 25-Sep-12 12:28pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Wow. \"It's full of stars.\"Reshared post from +Philip PlaitThe Hubble Extreme Deep Field will melt your brainYou are looking at what may be the deepest image of the Universe ever taken: the Hubble Extreme Deep Field, a slice of the cosmos showing galaxies over 13 billion light years away.This amazing\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":42537,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/12\/three-galaxies.html","url_meta":{"origin":30504,"position":1},"title":"Three Galaxies","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 12-Jun-14 3:47pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Very, very cool.\ufeff APOD: 2014 June 11 - Three Galaxies over New Zealand A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation. 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