Starship Asterisk*

As a very minor note, the site I noted is an answer to the same question I asked, but from a 7th Grade student. It's nice to know I am keeping up with a 12 year old.

Thank you for these comments. I did Google as suggested and initially found this site from Cornell if anyone is interested: http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=382 I am sure the odds of star collision are very, very low, but considering the billions of stars over billions of years, ...

When two galaxies collide, as with today's NGC 4013 and the Tidal Stream, do the component stars ever crash together, and if so, what is the result? Obviously the stars are far apart even in dense galaxies, but star-star collisions must occur just statistically.