Harry Cheese

disneygirldreams:

When Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale, the directors, said in a meeting that the song needed to be cut from the movie, Howard Ashman, producer of the Little Mermaid and lyricist, tore him a new one. He explained sternly its value, that early in every great musical, the heroine sits down and sings about what she wants most out of life. And that from that moment on you fall in love with her and root for her the rest of the film. Howard said that cutting Part of Your World would be cutting the heart of the movie. A characterture of the interaction was drawn shortly after:

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ikenbot:

Galaxy Collisions: Simulation vs Observations

The folks over at NASA apod just put up an awesome galaxy collisions, simulations and observations video for the public. I made a little gif set to go along with the video which can be found here.

What happens when two galaxies collide? Although it may take over a billion years, such titanic clashes are quite common.

Images Credit: NASA, ESA; Visualization: Frank Summers (STScI);

Simulation: Chris Mihos (CWRU) & Lars Hernquist (Harvard).

Since galaxies are mostly empty space, no internal stars are likely to themselves collide. Rather the gravitation of each galaxy will distort or destroy the other galaxy, and the galaxies may eventually merge to form a single larger galaxy.

Expansive das and dust clouds collide and trigger waves of star formation that complete even during the interaction process. Pictured above is a computer simulation of two large spiral galaxies colliding, interspersed with real still images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

Our own Milky Way Galaxy has absorbed several smaller galaxies during its existence and is even projected to merge with the larger neighboring Andromeda galaxy in a few billion years.