High-Speed Crash Makes Hot, 'Sterile' Galaxies

Discovery News ^ | Thursday, October 9, 2008 | Larry O'Hanlon

[SunkenCiv]

Telling Tendrils: A deep new image of part of the Virgo cluster has revealed monumental tendrils of ionized hydrogen gas 400,000 light-years long connecting the elliptical galaxy M86 (right) and the disturbed spiral galaxy NGC 4438 (left). The filaments of hydrogen gas trace back to a very high-speed intergalactic collision. [Tomer Tal and Jeffrey Kenney/Yale University and NOAO/AURA/NS]

[SunkenCiv]

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[Monkey Face]

Looks strangely like the Cheshire Cat.

[dayglored]

Cue the Velikovsky (Worlds in Collision) comments in 1...2...3...

So if the red filaments are ionized hydrogen gas, what are the green filaments coming from the galaxy in the lower-right of the photo? If they were explained in the article I missed that...

[null and void]

Looks strangely like the Cheshire Cat.

I don't see it...

[Monkey Face]

Have some chocolate. It will make you see things in a whole new way... ;o])

[null and void]

Invaders from Irkin.

[null and void]

You've gotten into the chocolate 'shroom's

again, haven't you???

[Monkey Face]

I...er...I didn’t want them to go to waste and they were just sitting there and no one was watching and the champagne was getting warm and I thought I would keep them both from getting stale.

:licking chocolate off fingers:

(I didn’t think you’d notice.)

[SunkenCiv]

They’ve decorated early for Christmas. ;’)

I thought this one looked more like a Halton Arp topic though.

[SunkenCiv]

Is it time for an intervention? ;’)

More where these came from:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2103309/posts?page=13#13

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2085916/posts?page=994#994

[uglybiker]

...what are the green filaments coming from the galaxy in the lower-right of the photo?

Intergalactic hay-fever?

[Goonch]

There must be a connection

Halton Arp: Galileo

[Monkey Face]

(Would that be chocolate, bouncing around the lower left of your post?...)

*she asks, breathlessly*

[Larry Lucido]

Galaxies shouldn’t drink and drive.

[Goonch]

"...what are the green filaments coming from the galaxy in the lower-right of the photo? Intergalactic hay-fever?"

A goldfish, I think

[Goonch]

"(Would that be chocolate, bouncing around the lower left of your post?...)"

Where?

[Monkey Face]

I’M DOOMED!!!!

(Sensory overload!)

:oþ

[Monkey Face]

(I’m sorry I read your tagline...)

[Fred Nerks]

The filaments of hydrogen gas trace back to a very high-speed intergalactic collision...

run it backwards and let's see what happened.