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- Mon Jan 09, 2006 6:37 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Tadpole galaxy
- Replies: 9
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Collision
Cheers Bilderback, I do realise that gravity causes objects to be attracted, I had never thought that all these objects had been left to their own devices for such a long time in space that their motion had become completely dominated by gravity, hence the collisions. Hi Harry, you mentioned no bigb...
- Mon Jan 09, 2006 12:32 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Tadpole galaxy
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2775
Coliding galaxies
Seeing the lovely Tadpole galaxy collision remanents, a question occured to me as to why galaxies collide if after the bigbang everything was flung perpendicularly from a single point at tremendous velocities. Furthermore, the visible universe is known to be continuously expanding and even accelerat...