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To Boldly Go into Colliding Galaxy Clusters


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Abell 1033: To Boldly Go into Colliding Galaxy Clusters

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Hidden in a distant galaxy cluster collision are wisps of gas resembling the starship Enterprise — an iconic spaceship from the "Star Trek" franchise.

Galaxy clusters — cosmic structures containing hundreds or even thousands of galaxies — are the largest objects in the Universe held together by gravity. Multi-million-degree gas fills the space in between the individual galaxies. The mass of the hot gas is about six times greater than that of all the galaxies combined. This superheated gas is invisible to optical telescopes, but shines brightly in X-rays, so an X-ray telescope like NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory is required to study it.

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LOL, that picture does look like the afterimage of a starship fight. :D

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Probably one of them baloney Season 3 episodes: the Enterprise chasing a giant mischievous space-rabbit? 

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