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Hubblecast 16: Galaxies gone wild!

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One of the big mysteries in astronomy is how galaxies grow and evolve over time. Collisions between galaxies are thought to be key events that shape their development. A stunning collection of 59 new images of colliding galaxies has been released to mark the 18th anniversary of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. They give us a unique insight into how galaxies collide to form larger galaxies.

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ESA/Hubble (M. Kornmesser & L. L. Christensen)

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Dr. J

Design:
Martin Kornmesser

Web Technical Support:
Lars Holm Nielsen
Raquel Yumi Shida

Cinematographer:
Peter Rixner (www.perix.de)

Script:
Lars Lindberg Christensen, Raquel Yumi Shida

Director:
Lars Lindberg Christensen

Acknowledgements for the images used in this Hubblecast: * Project lead: Lars Lindberg Christensen * Image processing: Davide de Martin (ESA/Hubble) and Zolt Levay (STScI) * Cosmetic cleaning: Amit Kapadia, Nuno Marques, Maximilian Kaufl (ESA/Hubble) * Colour correction and cosmetic adjustments: Zolt Levay (STScI) & Martin Kornmesser (ESA/Hubble) * HST Principle Investigator: A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook), and the PIs of Hubble Proposals 9735, 11091, 6276, 10575, 7129, 7467, 6438. * Astronomical processing pipeline: The STScI ACS team * Data Archiving and pipeline implementation: The ESO/ST-ECF Archive and the STScI Archive

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  • I feel sorry for any life that might have exist on tho's galaxy's. (not saying there is or was for sure)

  • give's me the chills just watching this wow.......

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  • Thanks for the video!

  • There is also the thought that dark matter must be out there&there is like 90% of it out there.I think they'll discover that the reason that gravity seems so weak is that it's only the smaller part of what will someday be called 'Actual gravity',&the solar system type view of it will be considered 'planetary' or weak gravity.

  • I came to this video expecting to see galaxy boobs.

  • @sakitakono Take it easy surfer. Start reading and studying about the universe and how it works. That way you don't have to assume...., you'll learn and know. Next!

  • nvm not worth the time. People are aloud to express any ideas and opinions they want. so that's my opinion and that was yours. good day.

  • If I ha dto use only the information that this vid give. It sound like even tho stars would rarely collide they are pulled and distorted away by the passing galaxy. So I assume that any planets rotating a star would all so be affected. Meaning that they could get pulled out of the solar systems habitable zone and destroy any life on the planet. This is what I meant by I feel sorry for any life on tho's galaxy's. I did realize I needed to dumb it down and

  • @sakitakono Shows how much you know about astronomy. You watch too many special effects star movies my friend.  If we were colliding now with the Andromeda galaxy it would be a spectacular view in the night sky..., non moving. The same sight prehistoric man would have seen unchanged. And long after the human race is gone the view would still be the same.

  • Beautiful and very interesting!x

  • haha this takes billions and billions of years to happen, the life within these galaxies all have very slim chances of being affected in anyway by the collision. The life of alien races will exist and become extinct during, before, and after and will feel no effects from the collision. There's no need to feel sorry for any other life forms in those galaxies.

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