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Wonder of Science (wonderofscience@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 21-Aug-2023 20:59:08 JST Wonder of Science

What happens when galaxies collide? A billion year gravitational waltz.
This computer simulation includes images from Hubble of actual galactic collisions at different stages.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and F. Summers
Source: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/details.cgi?aid=30686
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2. Hyperwall: Galaxy Collisions: Simulation vs Observations
  
  from NASA's Hyperwall
  
  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-forming regions, This structure is stable when left alone, but is relatively easily disturbed when another galaxy passes near. Astronomers have studied galaxy interactions for decades, and Hubble's keen vision has been particularly useful for examining new details. A 2008 Hubble press release unveiled 59 images of galaxy interactions. Each image, however, captures only one moment in a billion-year-long collision process. This visualization of a galaxy collision supercomputer simulation shows the entire collision sequence, and compares the different stages of the collision to different interacting galaxy pairs observed by Hubble. The two spiral galaxies in the simulation distort, twist, and merge together, matching different images at different times and different viewing angles. With this combination of research simulations and high resolution observations, these titanic crashes can be better illustrated and understood.
- Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 (lazarou@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 21-Aug-2023 21:12:08 JST Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈
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  @wonderofscience thinking about those stars flung out into the lonely intergalactic void by these events, and wondering if Sol will be one of them in 3 billion years.....
  
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- Waterluvian (waterluvian@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 21-Aug-2023 21:58:31 JST Waterluvian
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  @wonderofscience I’m just kinda bummed I won’t be around to see all of it.
  
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- Jo Jitsu (joblakely@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 21-Aug-2023 22:24:54 JST Jo Jitsu
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  @wonderofscience Amazing.
  
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- johnpiers (farstrider@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Aug-2023 00:06:08 JST johnpiers
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  @wonderofscience
  A short version of what you posted with audio.
  Excellent post, thanks.
  https://youtube.com/shorts/2xhaHWl_q6I?feature=share
  Credit: @ScienceExplainedOfficial
  
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- Beatsmith (beatsmith_dot_org@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Aug-2023 00:30:45 JST Beatsmith
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  @wonderofscience I dunno, but Powerman 5000 knows what it’s like when worlds collide.
  
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- GonoMobil (gernotti@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Aug-2023 02:52:29 JST GonoMobil
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  @wonderofscience Eye-Candy at its best! That‘s a super-nice example to demonstrate the power of physical #models, #simulation and combined #observations!
  It‘s always shocking to realise, how many people lack even the faintest idea of the #scientific method…
  
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- Gooberleg (unclegooberleg@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Aug-2023 03:19:18 JST Gooberleg
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  @wonderofscience
  I sure am glad I’ll get to watch the real thing once I’m up yonder #cloudbouncing with #Jesus. /s
  #atheist #humor
  
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- Fayedray (fayedray@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Aug-2023 03:22:25 JST Fayedray
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  @wonderofscience
  did they make that horny on purpose
  
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- wtry (wtry@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Aug-2023 07:05:51 JST wtry
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  @wonderofscience I thought it would be more like beyblades :(
  
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- faidh (faidh@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Aug-2023 09:25:36 JST faidh
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  @wonderofscience that's awesome!
  
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- GenericPerson48 (genericperson48@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Aug-2023 13:01:21 JST GenericPerson48
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  @wonderofscience Thats beautiful, and to think that will happen to the milky way and andromeda someday
  
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