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Hubble shows Milky Way is destined for head-on collision with Andromeda galaxy

(Phys.org) -- NASA astronomers announced Thursday they can now predict with certainty the next major cosmic event to affect our galaxy, sun, and solar system: the titanic collision of our Milky Way galaxy ...

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created 2 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Hubble sees a spiral within a spiral

(Phys.org) -- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of the spiral galaxy known as ESO 498-G5. One interesting feature of this galaxy is that its spiral arms wind all the way into the center, so ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

A pinwheel in many colors

(Phys.org) -- This image of the Pinwheel Galaxy, or also known as M101, combines data in the infrared, visible, ultraviolet and X-rays from four of NASA's space-based telescopes. This multi-spectral view shows ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1