2 Spiral Galaxies Colliding (VIDEO)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

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Two spiral galaxies undergo a protracted crash lasting two billion years, eventually merging into a single elliptical galaxy.

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NCSA/NASA/B. Robertson (Caltech) and L. Hernquist (Harvard Univ.)

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