I call this one the ... STAR CROSSED LOVERS ...

• by J_Terry_Davenport

  Guys, this is a collision between two galaxies and, it looks like it will do major damage to both of them. --- JT

  Posted June 29, 2014 7:38 AM

• by Budgieye moderator

  amazingly beautiful, but I wouldn't want to live there.

  Posted June 29, 2014 10:44 AM

• by planetaryscience

  I second @Budgieye

  Posted June 30, 2014 7:17 PM

• by klmasters scientist, admin

  Well the weird thing is the spaces between stars are so large, than anyone living on a planet around a star in one of those systems would likely just get a beautiful sky show - nothing bad happens to really any of the stars or planets in these collisions.

  If I'm honest I'd quite like to live there to see the show - although it would mess up observations of the other galaxies in the Universe, so I would miss that!

  Posted July 10, 2014 4:31 PM

• by Budgieye moderator

  When I said I wouldn't like to live in these galaxies, I was concerned with the UV light and X-rays. Agree that the night sky would be amazing.

  Posted July 10, 2014 5:03 PM

• by JeanTate in response to Budgieye's comment.

  And then there's all the radiation from all the supernovae ... being even a light-year from a core-collapse supernova would surely be no fun at all (and if that supernova also produced a gamma ray burst (GRB), and if you were hit by the GRB head-on, wouldn't your whole planet be severely damaged?).

  Posted July 10, 2014 7:15 PM