Starship Asterisk*

I https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-27940afcfe94bdb932141a10f0ed7fcd.webp As you can see, the plane of the Solar system is not aligned with the plane of the Milky Way at all. The Sun orbits more or less along the plane of the Milky Way, but it bobs up and down as it does so. https://www.youtube...

But because the blue stragglers are still on the main sequence, they are not as bright as the blue horizontal branch stars, which have used up their core hydrogen and can be thought of as "giants". I wonder why can there be comparable number of bright outlier stars of two sorts: quick bur...

In the pic the hole in the halo ring is 12 times the disk. Therefore the radius of the ring is about 6°. But they say the angle of deviation after entering a face of hexagon ice prism and exiting the next to the next face is 21.54° (red) to 22.37° (blue) at minimum and 50° at maximum. I think there ...

I wonder why a galaxy in a cluster should experience a ram pressure if that galaxy is native and has formed within the dark and normal matter currents and clumps. If the cluster's halo is rotating than all the galaxies shoud be rotating with it, would not they? If the clusters's halo collapse somewh...

1) low density excited gases emit narrow individual spectral lines ... NOT continuous black body radiation. 2) colliding neutral gas atoms might well be mostly elastic and, thereby, deposit their colliding energy into turbulence & sound waves rather than into ionization. I think colliding atom+...

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If M99 is a cluster breaker distorted by the headwind of the intergalactic media in the Virgo Cluster,
why should M66 be distorted by the other galaxies of Leo triplet? Can M66 be a crusher too?

It has its blue in plenty. Even a Great Blue Pocket.

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https://public.nrao.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/imagesnon-gallery2015d-finley10-13-HalofinalHSTdiskMedianhalo_nrao.jpg Don't have much to say about NGC 5775, but I guess it has been active in the past, if it isn't active now. It has two companions, and the larger one, NGC 5774, is fluffy, almost...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/NGC_1275_Hubble.jpg/1280px-NGC_1275_Hubble.jpg As for NGC 1316, I think of it as a cross between elliptical shell galaxy NGC 474 and active galaxy NGC 1275. NGC 1275 has collided with and is absorbing a spiral galaxy. The dusty remnants of t...

inner globe in NGC 1316 is a carbon copy of APOD post of NGC 1316…
Wait! It is one and the same galaxy!

come to think of it the dust in Cen A can be a disk rather than a tyre and still look like a tyre because of the same visibily trick that make dust streaks in NGC 1316 look so superficial. Then it is no coincedence that the radius of the tyre is the radius of the halo part of the bulge. Our side of ...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Ngc1316_hst.jpg/800px-Ngc1316_hst.jpg https://cdn.eso.org/images/screen/eso0005b.jpg Well... first came Cen A, as the product of a collision between an elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy. Then came NGC 1316, where the spiral galaxy has be...

So, the description is misleading. Thanks. P.s. in regard to an earlier comment by neufer. Phillips also makes Root Beer Schnapps. I hope to sample some, someday... heavy, heavier and heavier still. What is a heavy element astrophysically speaking: Li to Fe, Fe to U? Wiki paints Uranium purple mean...

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trying to imagine a 3d, it's easy to see dusty outskirts as wide tyre around a thin plate wheel. The part near the core is more puzzling. There surely is a large ghostly shine bulge through which we see the far side of the arms' ends. But what are the dusty lanes seen very close to the core due to t...

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