Ancient Galactic Collision Created Stellar Swirls of NGC 5907

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New astronomical simulations suggest that the enormous swirls of stars surrounding the NGC 5907 galaxy, located 50 million light-years away, in the constellation Draco, were formed when two equal-sized galaxies collided 8 or 9 billion years ago. The research was published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics by Wang et al.

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1 Response to “Ancient Galactic Collision Created Stellar Swirls of NGC 5907”


  1. 1 sdrpullen February 19, 2012 at 17:43

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