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Cecilia Scorza, EU-UNAWE Germany

Cosmic Collisions

The Universe is vast and largely made up of empty space, but cosmic collisions still happen pretty often. Take the galaxy in this picture: it looks like a giant target board, and some 300 million years ago, a smaller galaxy scored a cosmic bullseye when it crashed right into the centre of it.

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NASA/ ESA/ CXC

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