200,000 Elliptical Galaxies Point the Same Way

slashdot.org ^ | 29 aug 2007 | KJ Longo

[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

[wastedyears]

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, I love FReep. I’m dying laughing over here. No I don’t need an ambulance.

[HangnJudge]

They are all heading toward

[bannie]

God

[M Kehoe]

Where are they pointing?

They are pointing towards that large "hole" in the universe discovered a few weeks ago. Methinks God has something to do with it...

Just a guess.

5.56mm

[colorcountry]

: )

[bannie]

:)

[oblomov]

[capydick]

[bvw]

At a treed squirrel.

[irishtenor]

I used to be there, but I moved a few years ago :>)

[Bigh4u2]

“”200,000 Elliptical Galaxies Can’t Be Wrong”TM”

And 300,000,000 Chinese people can’t all be WONG either.

:0)

[wastedyears]

LOL!

[irishtenor]

Of course! How simple. I should have seen that at once. Thanks for clearing things up.

[kinoxi]

I read a book a few years ago that talked about a few concepts of superstrings’ interactions with matter (strings). This sort of thing reminds me of a few basic models. This is not necessarily a function of the nature of space if it can attributed to an external force like a brane. I don’t really buy a lot of the general concepts that constitute string theory, m-theory, etc. This just reminds me of a few general ideas and I could see some people very excited about this. It’s at least very odd.

[Luke Skyfreeper]

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.

Dude, you have WAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYY too much time on your hands...

[Buddy B]

elliptical galaxies - Google Search
Results 1 - 10 of about 1,610,000 for Elliptical Galaxies.

I picked one from Google to read or at least skim through it:
Structure and Dynamics of Elliptical Galaxies

[yield 2 the right]

“Heaven this way!”-——————————>

[Buddy B]

Ding, Dong...

[mark3681]

I have bookmarked this for later. Much, much later.

[vetsvette]

There’s a hell of a big magnet out there someplace!