Massive Galactic Merger Scoped By Several Space Observatories | Time-Lapsed Simulation

Wednesday, May 22, 2013 - 17:50 in Astronomy & Space

The Herschel Space Observatory captured imagery of colliding galaxies, called HXMM01 (~ 11 billion light-years from Earth and when our universe was about 3 billion years old.) A merger of galaxies is simulated.

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