This artist's concept shows delicate greenish crystals sprinkled throughout the violent core of a pair of colliding galaxies. The white spots represent a thriving population of stars of all sizes and ages. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
1 posted on
02/19/2006 11:50:45 PM PST by
neverdem
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2 posted on
02/20/2006 12:05:30 AM PST by
neverdem
(May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows that you're dead.)
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3 posted on
02/20/2006 5:16:06 PM PST by
KevinDavis
(http://www.cafepress.com/spacefuture)
To: neverdem
This is really cool stuff. Thanks for posting it.
4 posted on
02/20/2006 5:37:49 PM PST by
phantomworker
("Few is the number who think with their own minds and feel with their own hearts." -Albert Einstein)
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The real story behind this phenomenon is that NONE of the countless extraterrestrial civilizations have a bottle bill, so they wind up dumping their nonreturnables in the same place. It's been going on a while.
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02/20/2006 6:50:32 PM PST by
SunkenCiv
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