<![CDATA[io9: galaxies dance]]> http://tags.lifehacker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/io9.com.png <![CDATA[io9: galaxies dance]]> http://io9.com/tag/galaxiesdance http://io9.com/tag/galaxiesdance <![CDATA[It's A Galactic Eclipse!]]> Call your astrologer! What does it mean when one galaxy passes in front of another? I'm guessing it means you'll find love, or spontaneous human combustion or something. Ground-based telescopes saw these overlapping galaxies as a single blob, but the Hubble Space Telescope was able to distinguish two different galaxies, a small one passing in front of a larger one, both about 780 million light years away. [Hubblesite]

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