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Sanduleak

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The fate of two galaxies
« on: May 02, 2010, 11:17:08 AM »
Two intertwinded ring galaxies have a little encounter with gravity...
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Re: The fate of two galaxies
« Reply #1 on: May 02, 2010, 11:20:07 AM »
Awesome!
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Re: The fate of two galaxies
« Reply #2 on: May 02, 2010, 11:21:05 AM »
It looks great with those colors, well made. :)
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Re: The fate of two galaxies
« Reply #3 on: May 02, 2010, 02:33:31 PM »
This is what the system looks like after 167M years... It is now extremely wide (radius = 75000 ly) as opposed to initial config (radius = 1025 ly)  and ever-expanding in a homothetic way.

(Color mode set to "Velocities")
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Re: The fate of two galaxies
« Reply #4 on: May 02, 2010, 02:59:58 PM »
Wow... Those screenshots are awesome.
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Re: The fate of two galaxies
« Reply #5 on: May 09, 2010, 03:12:23 AM »
A few new screenshots using green for one ring, red for the other.

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Re: The fate of two galaxies
« Reply #6 on: May 09, 2010, 10:00:13 AM »
That would probably be impossible to do on my computer.
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