Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD)

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re: Colliding Galaxies in Stephan's Quintet

 'Scuse me, sorry, comin' through --


Kewl visualizations of this intergalactic-bumper-cars kinda thang. As if we didn't have enough to worry about -- see 04:00 ff -- this one's got our name on it, for sure! Four billion years from now, I plan to be out of town for the duration.



No need to panic, folks, just stay calm and AAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

 Milky Way, meet Andromeda!

We delicately fragile and ephemeral Earthlings are as mere mayflies in a Fujita-scale "Category V Hurricane, Catastrophic" relative to these kind of titanic proceedings! Of course, seemingly giant (to us) solar systems like ours are also comparatively pretty tiny considered against this super-duper order of magnitude, and could easily slip through the cracks and go through such a fantastic collision and all its gravitational stresses and strains without mussing its hair, so to speak. Yep, keep thinkin' that.

http://alessasadversaria.blogspot.com/20...ision.html

Allusion-friendly muzik -- because... Science!!
Note: predictably, given the pattern-manipulation-mad musician's sensitivity to provocative memes, there actually is a rock group called Stephan's Quintet.  Here's a somewhat apropos number, also appropriate for your dining and dancing pleasure in the aftermath of other annihilative world-catastrophes: