When our Milky Way merges with the Andromeda Galaxy in 4.75 billion years, Earth will be facing even bigger problems than a cosmic collision. Two parallel worlds confront an uncertain future, while an astrophilosopher and a modern shaman struggle with decisions that will establish the fate of intelligent beings throughout the colliding spiral arms. Worlds separated by thousands of light-years are suddenly thrust together in challenges humans have never imagined.
(cover art by james r. eads)
Galactic collisions are one of the most ferocious and most stunning events in our universe. In this gallery, Wired takes a look at some of the most amazing images ever taken of these cosmic pile-ups.
(cover art by james r. eads)
When two galaxies collide they generally end creating new stars When two galaxies collide, it generates a burst of strength
The Romans knew our Galaxy as the Via Lactea or “road of milk”. From its gauzy white haze in the sky, it does certainly seem like a fresh, bright line of milk spilled across the speckled dark. Greek…
mira !!
The complex and intricate patterns are the result of the experiments performed by scientists at CERN, home of the Large Hadron Collider, in Geneva, Switzerland.
by Olivia Notter
Merging galaxies create a lot of disruption in their cosmic neighborhood, accelerating the rate at which surrounding gas and dust falls in toward their respective black holes, which, in turn, creates a thick cocoon of debris.
The stars sail past one another, and the night sky would probably be fabulous.
Ghostly Cosmic “Face” Snapped By Hubble As Two Galaxies Collide
NGC 1316: After Galaxies Collide An example of violence on a cosmic scale, enormous elliptical galaxy NGC 1316 lies about 75 million light-years away toward Fornax, the southern constellation of the F
Even as the solar eclipse was mesmerizing millions, astronomers were training their space- and land-based telescopes on a far more violent astrophysical event.
Space Artist Dana Berry brings us to far, far away places.
