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200,000 Elliptical Galaxies Point the Same Way
slashdot.org ^ | 29 aug 2007 | KJ Longo

Posted on 08/30/2007 6:47:29 PM PDT by jbp1

I have studied a sample of 200,000 elliptical galaxies with redshifts <0.20 from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) to investigate whether they tend to have their ellipticities aligned along a particular axis. The data show a 13 standard deviation signal for such an alignment. The axis is close to the spiral spin axis found previously and to that of the quadrupole and octopole moments in the WMAP microwave sky survey

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: astronomy; galaxies; xplanets
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To: ASA Vet
The WHAT? I can think of two definitions of “flute playing”, but don’t see how either apply.

Please elaborate.

121 posted on 09/03/2007 1:04:03 PM PDT by NathanR
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To: null and void

“{{{{dung}}}}”

LOL!


122 posted on 09/04/2007 6:21:43 AM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: jbp1

Monty Python - Galaxy Song

Just remember that you’re standing on a planet that’s evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That’s orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it’s reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the ‘Milky Way’.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It’s a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it’s just three thousand light years wide.
We’re thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go ‘round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that’s the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you’re feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere up in space,
‘Cause there’s bugger all down here on Earth.


123 posted on 09/04/2007 6:31:57 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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