Wednesday, February 23, 2022

Three merging galaxies

Amazing picture.

Does make you wonder: was there life in any of them 700 million years ago?  And if there was, did it survive?

4 comments:

JNorth said...

No guess on any life but the thing about space is it is mostly just that, space. Even with three galaxies colliding the odds of any collisions is still very small it will be even less likely when we (the Milky Way) collide with the Andromeda in however many millions or billions of years from now.

Mark@Bismarck said...

Did it survive and are we it?

Kid said...

The experts say it is extremely rare that objects will collide in merging galaxies.

Firehand said...

I was mostly thinking of the gravity effects of all those masses moving into relatively close vicinity, that's got to be tremendous