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Small Galaxy Punches Hole In Andromeda
space.com ^ | 10/17/05 | Ker Then

Posted on 10/17/2005 7:06:43 PM PDT by KevinDavis

Sometime in the distant past, the dwarf galaxy M32 hurled itself at its much larger neighbor Andromeda, delivering an explosive uppercut punch that left a jagged hole nearly 10,000 light-years across in Andromeda's plane of stars, one that millions of years later has yet to fully heal.

New infrared images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope recently revealed the hole, which is hidden to optical telescopes behind Andromeda's veils of cosmic dust and gas.

The Spitzer images also revealed other features of Andromeda that have never been seen before, including bright, new stars and spiral arcs swirling out from the galaxy's center.

(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: andromeda; bushsfault; space
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To: Termite_Commander; KevinDavis; flashbunny; ClearCase_guy

Milky Way is just the translation of Galaxias, which is what the Greeks called it. If Andromeda were similarly translated, then it'd be the Ruler of Men (which is still much cooler..)

I like the Chinese or Japanese myself: Silver River (yín hé) or Heavenly River (Amanogawa).


21 posted on 10/17/2005 8:22:51 PM PDT by AntiGuv (™)
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To: AntiGuv

Galaxias kuklos = Milky circle, used of course just as we use Milky Way, as a reference to the appearance in the sky. Aristotle discusses its nature and concludes it is a sort of cosmic dust accumulated in one spot by the gyrations of the heavens.

Even as late as 1900 "the Galaxy" was a synonym for "the Milky Way" although it did seem to refer to the object itself rather than the appearance. At that time, there was speculation that some nebulae might be "external galaxies" or "external universes", although conservative opinion was against it.

So "the Milky way galaxy" is formally redundant. It's a similar situation to calling "our sun" "Sol", which of course just means sun.


22 posted on 10/17/2005 10:21:24 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: benjaminjjones

LOL!


23 posted on 10/17/2005 11:12:30 PM PDT by Bellflower (A new day is Coming!)
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To: KevinDavis

Let us see a Gravity Kick :-D


24 posted on 10/18/2005 2:47:07 AM PDT by Wiz
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To: fizziwig
Ahem.....the Gnome galaxy M32.

Sorry, not PC enough......

The Vertically Challenged Galaxy M32.

25 posted on 10/18/2005 2:51:52 AM PDT by Erik Latranyi (9-11 is your Peace Dividend)
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To: KevinDavis
Global warming.

26 posted on 10/18/2005 3:04:30 AM PDT by Bon mots
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27 posted on 10/18/2005 6:37:21 AM PDT by NCC-1701 (RADICAL ISLAM IS A CULT. IT MUST BE ERADICATED ASAP)
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To: flashbunny; KevinDavis; Termite_Commander

This is silly, naming a galaxy "The Milky Way." I think Baby Ruth, Payday, Abba Zabba, or Almond Joy is much better.


28 posted on 10/18/2005 7:38:23 AM PDT by Enterprise (The modern Democrat Party - a toxic stew of mental illness, cultism, and organized crime.)
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To: KevinDavis

That is so true.


29 posted on 10/18/2005 9:38:12 PM PDT by phantomworker ("I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe - I believe)
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