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by AloE
Tue Mar 01, 2016 11:46 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: NGC 3310: A Starburst Spiral Galaxy (2016 Mar 01)
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Re: APOD: NGC 3310: A Starburst Spiral Galaxy (2016 Mar 01)

please clarify the way time is used: since the galaxy distance is ~50 MLY, does "Roughly 100 million years ago" mean that the collision would have been visible at Earth: 100 million years ago (= this photo is the state of the galaxy ~100 million years after collision thus the collision occ...