Sentences with phrase «galaxies sideswipe»
At first the galaxies sideswipe each other, their gravitational fields tearing off streamers of stars and nebulae tens of thousands of light - years long.
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This colossal wave of material — which was triggered when IC 2163 recently sideswiped another spiral galaxy dubbed NGC 2207 — produced dazzling arcs of intense star formation that resemble a pair of eyelids.