A trick of perspective: Chance alignment mimics a cosmic collision
Thursday, June 14, 2012 - 09:31
in Astronomy & Space
(Phys.org) -- The Hubble Space Telescope has produced a highly detailed image of a pair of overlapping galaxies called NGC 3314. While the two galaxies look as if they are in the midst of a collision, this is in fact a trick of perspective: the two just happen to appear in the same direction from our vantage point.