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Old July 22nd 16, 06:15 AM posted to sci.astro
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Default ‘Frankenstein’ galaxy UGC*1382 surprises astronomers

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Mandy Liefbowitz wrote:

On Wed, 13 Jul 2016 22:19:51 -0400, Yousuf Khan
wrote:

On 13/07/2016 5:25 PM, Mandy Liefbowitz wrote:
Could we be seeing a collision? By random chance, the moment when
three galaxies just happen to be passing through each other on their
way to their own individual destinies?
Well, two galaxies and a gas cloud, a Voorwerp.


Well, definitely a collision, probably one or two moderate sized dwarf
galaxies being pulled apart by the central elliptical galaxy and turning
into the elliptical's spiral arms.


That's so cool.

Uhn... unless you're *IN* one of those pulled-apart galaxies, of
course. Poor babies. I wonder if anyone is? I wonder whether we'll
ever know?

Thank you.
And thank you for all of your posts, you are interesting, intriguing
and often provide stuff that is ever so lovely.


We are both in a galaxy that is in collision. So far, so good.

I've read that while things like star clusters and various
groupings and gas get moved around a lot, planets are not all that
likely to have something bad happen to them.

Our galactic collision is not as complicated as the one in the
galaxy mentioned, but we're doing all right with what may be
multiple collisions currently and in the galactically recent past.