These great hollow globes of artificial super-metals, and artificial transparent adamant, ranged in size from the earliest and smallest structures, which were no bigger than a very small asteroid, to spheres considerably larger than the Earth. (Olaf Stapledon, STAR MAKER)
Thursday, February 12, 2015
Active Structural Remodeling
Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day is a Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based (Subaru Telescope) combined image of NGC 4038 and NGC 4039, the "Antennae" in the constellation of Corvus. Two galaxies are colliding in slow motion! The "Antennae" are also part of Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, a interesting astronomical artifact.
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