APOD: 2008 June 19 - The Star Streams of NGC 5907 Grand tidal streams of stars seem to surround galaxy NGC 5907. I wonder what life is like (if it’s possible) around those far-flung wisps of stars. The victims of violence on a scale so grand, it’s undetectable on human timescales unless you’re millions of light-years away.

APOD: 2008 June 19 - The Star Streams of NGC 5907

Grand tidal streams of stars seem to surround galaxy NGC 5907.

I wonder what life is like (if it’s possible) around those far-flung wisps of stars. The victims of violence on a scale so grand, it’s undetectable on human timescales unless you’re millions of light-years away.