• Question: whats the best galixy do you think and why

    Asked by revolver to Sam on 18 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Sam Geen

      Sam Geen answered on 18 Jun 2013:

      Well, our galaxy, the Milky Way, has me in it so clearly it’s the best. 😛

      The Large Magellanic Cloud is fun – it’s a smaller galaxy that’s been caught by the Milky Way’s gravity and is falling into it, where it’ll be torn apart and eaten up by the Milky Way. It has a weird shape because of being pulled by the Milky Way’s gravity, and there are interesting things in it, like nebulae – a supernova also went off in it in 1987, which helped us understand supernovae better. See it here: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110426.html

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