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Old 05-September-2003, 08:05 PM
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After their galactic collision, "Strong tidal forces from NGC 2207 have distorted the shape of IC 2163, flinging out stars and gas into long streamers stretching out a hundred thousand light-years..."
Perhaps the dark matter also gets considerably thinned out - as ellipticals form from collisions of spirals.... (?)
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