Starship Asterisk*

Thank you for the answers. They're good. Where I am coming from is this: I have always been suspicious of assumptions that spiral galaxies net-out to gravitational agglomerations. Years ago, as a child, I thought, "They sure look like they are coming out of the center, sort of like a rotating q...

The gravitational dynamics of local globular clusters, within themselves and as "children" of the Milky Way, just doesn't seem to make sense. We have these wonderful, nearly perfectly spherical balls of stars, wonderfully orbiting a much huger gallactic plate . Since when did nature begin ...