Tag: galaxies

• A Galaxy, Exploded (Science Advent 15)

  (Every day until Christmas, I’ll be posting a science-related image.) Day 15 At one point in the past, the galaxy known euphoniously as ESO 350-40 was probably a spiral galaxy, not dissimilar to the Milky Way. However, a smaller galaxy—perhaps one of the two at the right of the image above—plunged through the disk of…

  Matthew R. Francis

  December 16, 2012

  Astronomy

  Advent 2012, galaxies, galaxy collisions