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."

Re:Should I panic now or wait a billion years firs

[derflattusmouse]

The human race has long ago begun to wonder if we are alone in the universe. Sadly, given the lack of evidence of extraterrestrial life we've begun to lose faith in the value of space travel. This sort of research might give us a faint glimmer of hope that we were a little early to the show and yes, one day there will be green alien women that we can mate with in a kirkish wharfgasm of intergalactic pleasure.

Dupe?

[Anonymous Coward]

The process took hundreds of millions of years, and will take many more hundreds of millions of years.
If this isn't a dupe, it's bound to happen.

From the photo...

[gardyloo]

... it looks like *someone* is highly anticipating the release of Debian 'Etch'....

Old news!

[j_snare]

From TFA: "the collision began about 500m years ago"

Man, just can't get anything but old news around here. Digg reported this 499 million years ago!

Re:Should I panic now or wait a billion years firs

[Anonymous Coward]

I think you're being optimistic with the flint tips.