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Hubble Takes Pictures of Colliding Galaxies

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hope-they-have-a-good-insurance-company dept.

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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  1. Re:Should I panic now or wait a billion years firs by Daniel+Dvorkin · · Score: 0, Troll

    If people like you ran the world, we'd still be fighting off sabertooth tigers with flint-tipped spears.

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    The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.