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wow that's an absolutely crazy picture, when you sit back and think of how many Earths can actually fit in there!

Is that a bolt of lightening in the pic at top left?

Hi Orin, I don't know, I think it looks pretty big and rather spectacular as well! It looks to be a rather..... (I'm not sure of the word so I'll use) "diverse" galaxy in respect to what you can see in it. As for being safe from a supernova..... Throughout Earth's history there have been m...

I'm thinking along the lines of Wadsworth as well. I never quite understood how we can look at something that's 13 billion L.Ys. away and still see galaxies when the universe is supposed to only be 13.2 billion years old, it doesn't add up. On top of this, with the picture that Wadsworth attached al...

ahhh, excellent. I've read a bit about it but they only indrectly hinted that they were outside of our galaxy's arms. With the links below, if I had researched the difference between Open Clusters and Globular Clusters I think I would have realized the answer. Thanks everyone! M3 - Globular Cluster ...

Each element, such as hydrogen and oxygen, have light reflected off of them at different wavelengths (or frequencies as Qev has explained). When filtering out light from different wavelengths, you are left with just the light coming from one wavelength, let's say oxygen. Then they'll do the same for...

Thanks Orin .... are there any occurances of these, or anything similar, outside of our galaxy?
I'm guessing the answer is no, but i dont' want to assume anything

Are Globular Clusters, such as M22, alone in space themselves? Or are they located within a galaxy?

Very cool Qev, i never knew that before. Looking into it further with the links you gave, I found they aren't technically "moons" of Earth. But they do co-orbit the sun with Earth, making occasional close encounters. Their peculiar orbits do make it seem as though they are orbiting Earth, ...

Ok this one seems quite a bit more plausible than the doomsday, fear-mongerer Eric Julien about SW-3 and it hitting Earth on May 25, 2006 You can find this article in, coincidentally, May's issue of Astronomy (the magazine). If you're not familiar with it, it's reputable and is found on almost any s...

harry wrote:Can an elliptical galaxy form a spiral galaxy?

Interesting... I guess we could start by taking a look at the relative ages of both forms of galaxies. Assuming we find a distinctive difference between their ages, we may hypothesize one type "could" become the other over time...

Just did some quick research on this and I think what makes a galaxy classified as a Seyfert Galaxy, apart from the "bright emission lines," is the varying brightness of it over time... so a single, still picture of a spiral galaxy wouldn't do. You'd need a series of time lapse photos (gen...

Harry that link doesn't work, as it didn't from the first post. Could you please copy the relevant info and post it here? I'd definately like to take a look at it!

.... but i do think you're crazy hahaha (joke joke)

ya i'm sorry Harry, in all the years i've spent reading, i've never come across anything that said our sun has gone supernova before. A supernova releases massive amounts of radiation that any known biomatter would obviously die. Whether our planet would even be habittable after something so devasti...

sorry harry, i'm not quite sure what you mean with the Rome comment...
It's too bad the link isn't active anymore. It was over a year ago that i watched this and highly recommend it!
I got through the first of your links.. finished at 3am.. had to work in 5 hours though so i couldn't continue

my god harry, i'm gonna need a week just to read all that!!! but thanks a bunch for the reading material!! for my own bit of input, i was watching this documentary on String Theory. http://www.torrentportal.com/details/209590/Nova+-+String+Theory+And+M+Theory+%5Bdigitaldistractions%5D.avi.html It's ...

Can someone find out how many spin left and how many spin right. If the number is roughly even we could assume it is at random. ... Ok ,,,,,,,,,,,,I'm going to pick on 100 galaxies It wouldn't matter. Let's assume that by chance all 100 galaxies you chose happened to spin clockwise from our positio...