Chance Alignment Between Galaxies Mimics a Cosmic Collision
Thursday, June 14, 2012 - 08:31
in Astronomy & Space
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows a rare view of a pair of overlapping galaxies, called NGC 3314. The two galaxies look as if they are colliding, but they are actually separated by tens of millions of light-years, or about ten times the distance between our Milky Way and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy.