Neighbor galaxies may have brushed closely

06/12/2012 07:11PM

Neighbor galaxies may have brushed closely

Recent studies with the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Telescope (GBT) indicate that two of our Milky Way's neighbor galaxies may have had a close encounter billions of years ago. The new observations confirm a disputed 2004 discovery of hydrogen gas streaming between the giant Andromeda Galaxy (M31) and the Pinwheel Galaxy (M33).


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