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Astronomers Spot an Extremely Rare Galaxy Mega-Merger

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Astronomers Spot an Extremely Rare Galaxy Mega-Merger
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Scale in the universe is hard to understand from a purely human perspective. Many times the math just doesn’t sit well with our brains that evolved to capture and process data about the world around us rather than groking the complexities of stellar dynamics and galaxy mergers. But every once in a while astronomers find something that, if we can wrap our heads around the numbers, gives a sense of just how big the universe is. That is precisely what a new paper, available in preprint on arXiv fro

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