Hubble Takes Pictures of Colliding Galaxies

Jerry Smith writes "The Register reports that the Hubble Space Telescope is still going strong, and took snapshots of two colliding galaxies. The sizes average between thousands and hundreds of thousand light years, containing ten million to one trillion stars. The process took hundreds of millions of years, and will take many more hundreds of millions of years."

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to all Iron Maiden fans...

[Stormwatch]

"When Two Worlds Collide"
(Dave Murray, Blaze Bayley, Steve Harris)

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my telescope looks out into the stars tonight
a little speck of light seems twice the size tonight
the calculations are so fine
can it be growing all the time?

now I can't believe it's true
and I don't know what to do
for the hundredth time I check the declination

now the fear starts to grow
even my computer shows
there are no errors in the calculations

now it's happened, take no other view
collision course, you must believe it's true
now there's nothing left that we can do

when two worlds collide
the anger and the pain
of all those who remain
two worlds collide
who will be left alive
no place to hide

when two worlds collide
the anger, the pain
of those who remain
when two worlds collide
when two worlds collide
so who will survive
there's no place to hide
when two worlds collide