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Hurricanes, redistribute energy in the atmosphere. They bring warm equatorial air to northern latitudes and cool down ocean surface temps. Now since galaxies are shaped like hurricanes, or vice versa, maybe they are redistributing some form of matter or energy or both. I read that black holes may be...

Several galaxies seem to have arms well above or below their galatic plane. Could it be that a large collision, from the appropriate angle, could start the galaxy tumbling in addition to rotating?

here is a HEAPOW link to further this discussion...

HEAPOW: Sparkle in the Cat's Eye (2001 January 15)

What is a Julia set??? An anthromorphic name for fractels?? I think the pic on the right is too much like Cat's Eye for mere coincidence

Sorry about leaving out the link...

http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/objec ... eapow.html

I think alot of these make there way into apod, but not all.

In addition to apod I visit the High Energy Astrophysics Pic of the Week site . It often raises puzzling questions that would make for great discussion. Can the Asterisk add a discussion forum for HEAPOW?

I only joined a week ago, but I have been a faithful APODer since 2000. I love how organized this site is, and I especially liked the community nature. Makc, I think what your doing as a moderator works well and does not censor... thank you very much!

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This may seem pretty dumb to all the pro astronomers and physicists but I have been dying to learn the answer. In the Hubble Deep Fields could we be taking an actual image of the Milky Way when it was in its infancy? It would seem that during the 11-13 billion year travel time of those photons that ...