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| Tweet Topic Started: Dec 11 2010, 05:33 PM (517 Views) | |
| Michelle | Dec 11 2010, 05:33 PM Post #1 |
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Galaxies are amazing. Which one's your favourite? I personally love the Sombrero Galaxy. Hoag's object is strange: |
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| CJ | Dec 11 2010, 05:37 PM Post #2 |
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I can see why it has that name XD It looks similar to the Cartwheel Galaxy:
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| Michelle | Dec 11 2010, 05:48 PM Post #3 |
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Wow that one startled me, it's its appearance. That's strange! |
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| CJ | Dec 12 2010, 02:47 PM Post #4 |
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I know. It looks more like an egg than a cartwheel XD |
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| Michelle | Dec 12 2010, 02:49 PM Post #5 |
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Or a seed. Looks like a bean seed if you split it apart. |
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| Michelle | Dec 17 2010, 07:13 PM Post #6 |
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Here's another good one, Abell 3376: |
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| CJ | Dec 17 2010, 08:33 PM Post #7 |
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Oh, wow . What kind of galaxy is that? It's hard to make out its shape...
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| Michelle | Dec 17 2010, 08:35 PM Post #8 |
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Sorry, its page is only in Polish ![]() Abell 3376 - the cluster of galaxies located in the constellation Pigeon within 614 million light years from Earth . The cluster Abell 3376 in X-ray resembles a missile. This shape shows the flow of matter into the crowd with her right hand. Shown in blue radio huge arches to the far left gormady were formed by shock waves caused by the mergers of objects. The increase in the cluster Abel 3376 is dependent on the rate of expansion of the universe and regulated by the influence of dark matter , dark energy and gravity in relation to large structures. |
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| CJ | Dec 17 2010, 10:49 PM Post #9 |
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Oh, OK. I didn't know that Pigeon was a constellation...or is that just bad translation ?
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| Michelle | Dec 17 2010, 10:51 PM Post #10 |
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It's the constellation Colomuba, I think.
Edited by Michelle, Dec 17 2010, 10:51 PM.
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| CJ | Dec 18 2010, 12:12 AM Post #11 |
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Is that Polish for 'Pigeon', or is the constellation a pigeon? |
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| Michelle | Dec 18 2010, 12:16 AM Post #12 |
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Nope, it's Latin for dove/pigeon |
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| CJ | Dec 18 2010, 02:18 PM Post #13 |
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Ah, right. 'Dove' seems like a more sensible name for a constellation than 'pigeon' !
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| Michelle | Dec 18 2010, 02:25 PM Post #14 |
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Haha I know right? Circinus Galaxy: |
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| CJ | Dec 20 2010, 06:41 PM Post #15 |
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Wow. That almost looks like a nebula! |
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| Michelle | Dec 20 2010, 07:02 PM Post #16 |
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I know, it sorta does. Wow, there's a black hole in the nucleus of the Whirlpool Galaxy: Which is what that cross shape is. |
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| CJ | Dec 23 2010, 08:57 PM Post #17 |
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Oh, wow. I knew that galaxies had black holes in their nuclei, but I didn't know that they made shapes like that! |
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| Michelle | Dec 23 2010, 09:21 PM Post #18 |
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I know, it's really cool. |
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| CJ | Mar 16 2011, 12:55 AM Post #19 |
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Any idea what causes that? |
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| Michelle | May 3 2011, 04:35 AM Post #20 |
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dunno, not an expert on physics
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| CJ | Apr 7 2014, 06:39 PM Post #21 |
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Today's featured picture is of the Needle Galaxy, a spiral galaxy which is visible edge-on from Earth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_4565 I can certainly see how it got its name! |
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