Posted on 12/24/2004 6:07:04 PM PST by neverdem
Jet Populsion Laboratory-Caltech/NASA
The nearby galaxy Messier 81 as it appears in visible light, top, and in ultraviolet light, which the NASA satellite Galaxy Evolution Explorer is using to map formation of galaxies across billions of years of cosmic time.
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All I needed to read.
"A galaxy is hundreds of millions of stars and planets. How can it be 'here'?"
Hard to believe how huge is any galaxy. Our own is simply to large to be explored by us. The fuels are inadequate, the distances are too great and our lifespans are too short.
From what Karl Saga said (BILLions and BILLions of stars) our galaxies are getting farther and farther apart from each other, thus increasing the distances.
So what's at the edge of the farthest/oldest galaxy? Spam? Lol. Is there the edge of the page out there?
Nice to think of these things at Christmas...the birth of the Son of God. That would be the same God who made the galaxy in said photo. Or if you would preferr, the God who set the big bang in motion.
It's not somewhere else.
The best guess is that there is no edge; i.e., if you traced an arc in any direction for long enough it would end back where it started. (I'm simplifying, obviously.)
Think of the galaxies as dots on the surface of an inflating balloon - no edge, as the balloon gets larger, all the dots get farther from each other.
ROFLMAO!
bttt and a Merry Christmas to you all.
My very best wishes,
RA
Merry Christmas RA! {{{{hugs}}}}
Thanks for the ping. That is an interesting article.
Merry Christmas to you and yours.
LMAO!
If anyone here gets to be put in charge of developing a new planet someday, could you ping me? I would love to help out. I don't get any pings on this planet.
"Three Dozen New Galaxies Are Found in Nearby Space"
Wow! We're been finding so many galaxies lately.
Can I have just one of them for myself? I want to be my own boss and a somebody. I want to be king of the Galaxy.
Merry Christmas
Do astronomers ever sit back and simply be amazed at what they're looking at? Most of the time, I imagine, you're too busy with the nuts and bolts to really take in the effect these images have on layman like me.
Anyway, I'm hoping to get into a little backyard astronomy in a few years. My daughter is five but is already interested in looking through a telescope at the moon, etc.
Merry Christmas.
Yes, all the time. It's just hard to publish a scientific paper consisting entirely of "Wow!"
coolie.
I still don't buyt the BBT - I prefer the plasma explanation - but these long-delayed visual data on young galaxies are welcome additions to the database.
Does anyone also think it is our destiny to populate the stars?
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Merry Christmas!
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