
The two spiral galaxies started to fuse together a few hundred million years ago making the Antenna galaxies the nearest and youngest example of a pair of colliding galaxies. Nearly half of the faint objects in the Antennae are young clusters containing tens of thousands of stars. The orange blobs to the left and right of image centre are the two cores of the original galaxies and consist mainly of old stars criss-crossed by filaments of dark brown dust. The two galaxies are dotted with brilliant blue star-forming regions surrounded by glowing hydrogen gas, appearing in the image in pink.
So in vestal honor of all the sporting events, weddings, galaxies mixing it up, hullabaloos, chess matches, I treat you to a remembrance of the New Zealand All Blacks Rugby Club "Supersonic..." as I was and still am a Trinity All Blacks Rugby Alum. God bless full body contact turf sports which are very much like galaxies colliding!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm5uxQlRRiQ
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