You need to watch Stargate. The Prometheus or Daedalus could make the trip in a week or so. You gotta love that Asgard intergalactic hyperdrive...
Posted on 01/24/2006 6:31:08 PM PST by KevinDavis
An unusually high number of galaxies are aligned along a single plane running through the center of the giant Andromeda galaxy. Scientists don’t have a theory to explain why.
Galactic cannibalism or dark matter may be responsible, researchers say.
The Andromeda galaxy is located at a distance of 2.5 million light-years away and is the nearest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way. Like our own galaxy, Andromeda is surrounded by numerous dwarf galaxy satellites. Many of these satellites are within 1.3 million light-years or less of the galaxy’s main disk.
Using the Hubble Space Telescope, Eva Grebel and Andrew Koch from the University of Basel in Switzerland found that nine out of Andromeda’s fourteen dwarf galaxy satellites reside in a single plane. The plane is about 52,000 light-years wide and is aligned perpendicular to Andromeda’s own galactic plane, within which the galaxy’s stars orbit about the center.
(Excerpt) Read more at space.com ...
Is the moon in the seventh house? And is Jupiter aligned with Mars?
Better ping SG-1 and tell them to hold off on the next mission.
Thanks for posting this, it's a strange universe.
It looks like an inter-galactic version of Connect Four
You need to watch Stargate. The Prometheus or Daedalus could make the trip in a week or so. You gotta love that Asgard intergalactic hyperdrive...
That means we're in the dawning of the Age of Aquarius!!!!!!!
Yeah but what I want to know is that since Andromeda is the nearest big galaxy to our own is it the one the former Canadian cabinet minister suggested that President Bush would start an intergalactic war with?
Yeah. "Dark Matter" has always sounded like so much hand-waving to me. I think they are missing something more fundamental than matter.
Evidence of cosmic engineering?
bookmk ping for my wonderful son , and ....
.... perhaps something will get trapped in my nerve tissue mass
You beat me to it. ;-D
But what purpose would placing satellite galaxies in a perpendicular orbit serve other than for aesthetic purposes?
But the motivations of any race sufficiently advanced to pull off such a feat would probably be beyond the ken of us poor hairless apes.
Indeed.
Maybe it's their way of telling anyone in the neighborhood that they exist.
The usual suspects.
Astronomers up against the "great wall"
William R. Corliss
From Science Frontiers No. 67: Jan-Feb 1990
http://www.science-frontiers.com/sf067/sf067a08.htm
WE'RE DOOMED! WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!
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