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AAS #8: The cosmic mid-life crisis

badastronomy.com » 2008 » January » 9th » AAS #8: The cosmic mid-life crisis

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Look out in the sky today, and you’ll see only a few kinds of galaxies. Most are elliptical, fuzzy round blobs containing billions of stars. Others are spirals, of course, flattened disks with magnificent spiral arms. Others are irregular in shape, and the fourth kind are peculiar; they have a definite shape (rings, for example) which are due to collisions with other galaxies. When two galaxies … Continue Reading »

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