Lydia
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Tue Aug 07, 2007 1:39 am
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What's 10 times larger than our galaxy?:
A merger of four galaxies into one gigantic collision, soon to be one of the largest galaxies in the universe. This collison was spotted in the cluster CL0958+4702, located a mild five billion light-years from us, by the Spitzer Space Telescope, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, and two ground based observatories located in Tucson, AZ, the MMT and WIYN.
Three of these galaxies are Milky Way sized and the forth is three times the size of our galaxy. An incredible amount of galactic material is being jettisoned from the collision in a "plume of energy"; some of these stars will later be consumed back into the new galactic formation.
Read more: Cosmic Collision
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