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Arramon- I'm an armchair astronomer, so take this with a grain of salt, but this is what I understand. Shouldn't affect the red-shift. The speed of the light doesn't change with respect to the path it takes, but only with respect to the distance because the universe is expanding. Also, yes the lense...

God should not be brought into the equation. Why ? because on this earth we have 1000's of religions. Why does God have to belong to a religion? That's like saying you belong to your possessions. I think everyone, religionists, and non-religionists, would be a ton more tolerant of the idea of an in...

It is also extremely non-linear. There should be a X-axis for time that states "logarithmic". Actually, an inverse exponential scale for the diagram is even a better fit since so much happens in the first second of the big bang.

Perhaps you're right, but all the computer simulations in galaxy formation fail unless most all of the matter is in a non-clumpy state. I'm guessing there are a few, very very few stars that exist and form during that process, and according to the simulations they are so few that it's hardly worth m...

This image says that stars formed before galaxies. Not to be a fly in the ointment, but... From my understanding, the Tidal Torque Theory says that dark matter collapsed into "dark halos" all within the first 400 million years, and they provide the gravitational forces behind galaxy format...

Kind of like the "asteroids" videogame universe... your spaceship flies off the left side of the screen and re-appears on the right side of the screen.

Unfortunately there is no evidence that black holes spin and I doubt that they do. However, there is evidence that at the heart of every galaxy there exist a black hole. In fact it is thought that there is a relationship between the two. Meaning a galaxy cannot exist without one. It doesn’t take de...

It seems the story behind the science of galaxy rotation is quite interesting. (I've done a ton of research on this since my last post.) The widely accepted theory today is called the "Tidal Torque Theory" or TTT, and was first proposed in 1949 by Hoyle. The idea is that after the big ban...

>all round bodies and most if not all other bodies rotate. I know of no rocks in space that do not have rotation 1) You're observing a universe that is 15 billion years old. Most galaxies currently in existence were well formed within the first billion years. 2) All the objects you refer to are infi...

These are all good thoughts, but I'm afraid I'm still not satisfied. As far as I can tell there are 3 theories for celestial rotational motion throughout the universe: 1) Galaxies are closed systems that began to spin on their own. This defies the laws of physics. Conservation of energy says closed ...

This probably sounds like a sophomoric question, but...

Why do galaxies spin?

Okay, so I chased down another image of the 47 tuc from the Hubble. It is a little overexposed compared to this one from SALT, and it was flipped vertically, was 44% smaller, and tilted by 6 degrees - still I managed to match them up to help clarify this issue: http://kionetics.com/streak-nonstreak....

As for the streaks I would say maybe lensing or possible objects burning towards the centre. I don't think lensing, after some research I confirmed my suspicions: lensing effects are perpendicular to these streaks. For more info: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/2005/32/im...

Due to their position and shape I would say it's just a photographic exposure effect. Not that I doubt you, but why aren't the large stars in the immediate vicinity of the streaks also streaked? Also, why are the streaks so aperiodic, the upper left corner doesn't even show any streaks. Lastly, if ...

In the corners of this image there are dozens of streaks going radially outward from the center of this globular cluster: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050905.html Is this normal? I can think of three possible causes for the streaks: 1) At the center of the cluster there are explosions which ej...

If you look at his suit it's quite obvious that he has most likely fallen down a time or two, if not many times. Of course they never show footage of that - probably because it doesn't exist. But consider how awkward it would be to walk in a suit that is pressurized to 1 atm within a vacuum, and the...

This nebula is so incredibly both intricate and symetrical - even the wisps of matter at the edges of it share symetry. What's more it look surprisingly like an implementation of the Julia set. Look here on the right: http://s-l.us/julia.gif vs the cat's eye nebula: http://s-l.us/cats-eye.jpg Mere c...