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325 QuasarA851 viewsactive galaxies collide, feeding matter to the central black holes that power quasars - painting by Don Dixon for "Scientific American"
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388 RingSource829 viewsPlanetary rings are continually replenished by debris created by collisions - painting by Don Dixon for Scientific American
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399 White Dwarf Collision985 viewsA scene far more common within a globular cluster, where stars swarm like bees and collisions between them are more likely, this digital painting shows the final minutes of our sun's life as a white dwarf approaches it. As tidal forces stretch the sun into a pear-shape, the delicate balance between gravity and radiation pressure fails, and the sun ruptures. The energy released as the two stars merge would vaporize the earth. Painted for November, 2002 cover of Scientific American.
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425 MicroBlackHolesEvolve855 viewsMicroscopic black holes might be formed by the collision of high-energy wave packets. They would last for only fractions of a second before dissolving in a burst of quarks and gamma rays. Digital diagram for Scientific American, 2005
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426 In the Ocean of Night909 viewsA spacecraft approaches a comet that is on a collision course for earth in this cover painting for Gregory Benford's novel "In the Ocean of Night." Digital painting for Warner Books, 2004
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437 AsteroidCollision891 viewsA large asteroid is struck by a smaller one. Since both bodies are porous, most of the energy is absorbed as heat, rather than dispersed with ejecta, thus explaining the internal melting of asteroids. Digital, for Scientific American.
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Moonring2315 viewsThe newborn moon forms amidst a ring of debris caused by a collision between a Mars-sized planet and the young Earth a mere month earlier. Commissioned for the German "coffee table" book Terramagica. Acrylic and gouache on illustration board, 13.5 x 18.5 inches, 1994; Original painting by Don Dixon, $2,900
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