Friends,Today, NASA put up this cool image of a couple of galaxies competing for space. Like something out of Star Wars, the larger galaxy with a great "black hole" in its midst is blasting the smaller galaxy with large amounts of radiation particles and other matter, thus the name "Death Star Galaxy." Ultimately, the smaller will "be assimilated" into the larger galaxy, so "resistance is futile." Tens of millions of stars and untold planets are in the path of this jet of destructive radiation. When one astrophysicist was asked what would happen if Earth was in the smaller galaxy, he indicated that it would be sterilized -- bummer. The astrophysicists advice? Avoid black holes when you can. Ha ha. Fortunately, there is no threat of this happening to our own Milky Way galaxy. Still, just the fact that we can see these images with the large array of powerful telescopes on the Earth, is amazing.
Don
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