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Hubble Telescope Sees a Cosmic “Waterspout” in This Dazzling New Image – Futurism
A galactic merger is an extremely slow process and can take billions of years. You get to see the result.
Galactic Waterspout
The Hubble Space Telescope just captured a spectacular new image of two galaxies starting to be pulled towards the center of another.
The two galaxies, NGC 2799 and NCG 2798, have already formed a waterspout showing one galaxy dripping individual stars like drops of water into the center of the other.
Drip Drip
The merging of two galaxies is a process that can take a very, very long time up to billions of years. Thanks to the ample space between stars, the merger itself i…
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