1 Answer. Protons in nucleus no doubt are repelled by each other. But we know that an atom is stable. The reason for this is that the protons and the neutrons(together called nucleons) are attracted to each other by a strong for called nuclear force.

Protons and neutrons are made up of smaller subatomic particles. When protons or neutrons get close enough to each other, they exchange particles (mesons), binding them together. Although the strong force overcomes electrostatic repulsion, protons do repel each other.

The strong force is a force which attracts protons to protons, neutrons to neutrons, and protons and neutrons to each other. So the nucleus of an atom is held together by the strong force, while the electrons are held in the atom by the electric force.

The stability of an atom depends on the ratio of its protons to its neutrons, as well as on whether it contains a “magic number” of neutrons or protons that would represent closed and filled quantum shells. These quantum shells correspond to energy levels within the shell model of the nucleus.

Once within range, massless charged bosons called gluons transmit the strong force between quarks and keep them “glued” together. A tiny fraction of the strong force called the residual strong force acts between protons and neutrons.

The protons have a positive charge the electrons have a negative charge and the neutrons are neutral. The electrons are attracted to the nucleus by the electrostatic force of attraction to the protons.

when two spiral galaxies collide they form a elliptical galaxy. a spiral galaxy alone is neat and orderly, when two orderly galaxies collide they form a messy tangled galaxy which is an elliptical galaxy. This can cause galaxies to become distorted or even rip apart.

A: When two spiral galaxies collide, gravity is the main force that comes into play. As the galaxies approach each other, gravitational forces start to pull the stars, gas, and dust of the spiral arms out of their original orbits. Elliptical galaxies are also known for their dearth of star-forming material.

The clouds of gas in the galaxies DO collide. The collisions can cause bursts of star formation, excess supernovae, new neutron stars and black holes, and other high-energy events.

When the galaxies collide, it causes vast clouds of hydrogen to collect and become compressed, which can trigger a series of gravitational collapses. A galaxy collision also causes a galaxy to age prematurely, since much of its gas is converted into stars.

Astronomers have found stars dating from a long-ago collision between the Milky Way and another galaxy. The crash helps to explain why the Milky Way looks the way it does. “It’s interesting because we can finally see what the history of the Milky Way is.”

Excluding planetary engineering, by the time the two galaxies collide, the surface of the Earth will have already become far too hot for liquid water to exist, ending all terrestrial life; that is currently estimated to occur in about 3.75 billion years due to gradually increasing luminosity of the Sun (it will have …

2) A protogalactic cloud with slow star formation is more likely to form a spiral galaxy than an elliptical galaxy. 3) A protogalactic cloud with very little angular momentum is more likely to form an elliptical galaxy than a spiral galaxy.

The energy source of active galaxies is the steady accretion of matter onto a supermassive Black Hole. Gas settles into an accretion disk. The hot inner parts of the disk shine brightly, especially at X-rays.

There are four distinguishing characteristics of the ellipticals: (a) they have much more random star motion than orderly rotational motion (star orbits are aligned in a wide range of angles and have a wide range of eccentricities); (b) they have very little dust and gas left between the stars; (c) this means that they …

Despite the Andromeda Galaxy containing about 1 trillion stars and the Milky Way containing about 300 billion, the chance of even two stars colliding is negligible because of the huge distances between them.

The Milky Way Colliding with Dwarf Galaxies It’s been pulled apart as it orbits the Milky Way. Now it’s stream of gas and dust surrounding the Milky Way. Another dwarf galaxy surrounding the Milky Way is the Sagittarius Dwarf.

At least a dozen times over the last 12 billion years, the Milky Way collided with a neighboring galaxy and devoured it, swallowing up that neighbor’s stars and mixing them into an ever-growing stew of pilfered suns.

Four billion years from now, our galaxy, the Milky Way, will collide with our large spiraled neighbor, Andromeda. The galaxies as we know them will not survive. In fact, our solar system is going to outlive our galaxy.

1.3 million miles per hour

The Milky Way does not sit still, but is constantly rotating. As such, the arms are moving through space. Even at this rapid speed, the solar system would take about 230 million years to travel all the way around the Milky Way.