why did you start studying about massive bursts of forming stars when galaxies collide?

Question: why did you start studying about massive bursts of forming stars when galaxies collide?
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Asked by to Nate on 20 Jun 2014. This question was also asked by .
- Nate Bastian answered on 20 Jun 2014:
  
  Good question. I got interested in this when I started seeing images of galaxy collisions. For example, look at this: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120812.html
  
  All those blue points are very young massive star clusters. Once I saw images like these, I was hooked!

Question: why did you start studying about massive bursts of forming stars when galaxies collide?