Hubble Space Telescope's view of a galactic collision gets turned into beautiful song

The “COSMIC” system in New Mexico is spearheading a new SETI approach, now observing up to 3000 stars per hour, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Using a technique called `beamforming,’ COSMIC combines signals from 27 antennas to target areas of interest within the array’s field of view on the sky.

Galactic Collision in Progress: When One Plus One (Eventually) Equals One

End of year, end of exhibit: Space shuttle Endeavour goes off view for a few years