Posted on 02/04/2019 2:03:07 PM PST by EdnaMode
Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, makes for a pretty space picture, and it looks normal at a distance. But a new 3D map reveals a surprise: The Milky Way is being warped and twisted by its stars.
The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy, in which stars and gas clouds exist mainly in its two spiral "arms." Our massive neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, is also a spiral. Spiral galaxies usually appear very flat and easy to see through a telescope, said the researchers behind the new map, published Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy.
Using 1,339 large, pulsating stars to compile a 3D map of the Milky Way, researchers discovered instead that the galaxy's disk of stars is increasingly twisting, most likely due to the spinning of the disk. And the farther the stars are from the center, the more twisted it becomes.
The stars used to create the map are called classical Cepheids. These are young stars, between four and 20 times the mass of our sun and 100,000 times brighter. Given their mass and brightness, they probably burn through their fuel quickly and die after a few million years -- young for the lifetime of a star.
Previously, astronomers saw evidence of hydrogen clouds becoming warped in the Milky Way. This isn't completely abnormal, because astronomers have noticed the same pattern of progressively twisting spirals in about a dozen other galaxies. But it does help them make more sense of our galaxy.
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Put your snickers in an oven for a bit (this symbolizes global warming), remove it, and twist each end in opposite directions (this symbolizes reverse in polarity/or gravitational forces), and then quickly pop it in the freezer (this will symbolize global cooling)
If done correctly, with proper amount of heating, cooling and twisting, your snickers should resemble a hockey stick. And us Canadians like hockey sticks.
Gore is a snickers expert and predicted the snickers change (warp and twist) decades ago. And as we know, his predictions always come to pass.
And it seems we have to add the /s here....so, we dont get nasty PMs, so
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Oh, and after the complete process, view from different angles. This will symbolize earth tilt and solar angle
Trump’s fault either way...
*ping*
Michael Moore is tipping it.
Attach Orion propulsion to his butt and send him off some 500,000,000 light years away, or he’ll capsize us,
Right Hank Johnson ?
LOL. Good one. :D
Hehe. Yup.
Far-reaching effects of Ocasio-Cortez.
What about the Hershey Highway? I’ve heard that’s sick and twisted too.
Yup. :D
Not as warped and twisted as the left.
Thanks colorado tanker and fieldmarshaldj, and EdnaMode for posting the topic. As a foundation left to create the spiral aim, a movement regained and regarded both the same, all complete in the sight of seeds of life with you. Or somethin'.
You can see it (with 1 being bright and 6 being about as dim as can be seen): With an apparent magnitude of 3.4, the Andromeda Galaxy is among the brightest of the Messier objects[16] making it visible to the naked eye from Earth on moonless nights,[17] even when viewed from areas with moderate light pollution.
As can be seen in the figure, Andromeda galaxy is just a rather SMALL spec in the night sky (compare it to the size of the trees shown). This is because the galaxy is approximately 2.54 ± 0.11 MILLION light years away from us.
DNA having been detected on some meteorites would seem to mean the odds for biology are good even within our own solar system.
I really like the Jovian and Saturnian satellites. Oceans!
Yeah, there's eleven, twelve, maybe as many as thirteen of 'em! :^)
CNN surely knows warped and twisted, but still don’t believe them.
Stated without qualification, as though someone had gone off 100,000 light years and taken a picture.
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