Saturday, May 10, 2008

Merging Galaxies Touched. SPACE.com Image of the Day The Antennae Galaxies are the closest known merging galaxies. --- The galaxies NGC 4038 and NGC 4039 began their slow dance a few hundred million years ago to create the merging system. Astronomers formerly believed it to be some 65 million light-years away, but new research from the Advanced Camera for Surveys onboard the Hubble Space Telescope shows the galaxies to be just 45 million light-years away. --- By  (SPACE.com). [SPACE.com Image of the Day] 3:25:35 PM