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Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Milky Way Galaxy Doomed: Collision with Andromeda Pending
NASA ^
| June 04, 2012
| (see photo credit)
Posted on 06/03/2012 9:08:20 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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[Credit: NASA, ESA, Z. Levay and R. van der Marel (STScI), and A. Mellinger]
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posted on
06/03/2012 9:08:38 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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06/03/2012 9:09:52 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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NOTE: Partial Lunar Eclipse Tonight: Gallery of photogenic past lunar eclipses New England and eastern Canada will miss the entire eclipse since the event begins after moonset from those regions. Observers in western Canada and the USA will have the best views with moonset occurring sometime after mid-eclipse.
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posted on
06/03/2012 9:11:49 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
I am just slightly more worried about this than I am about NASA’s other hobby horse Anthropogenic ( Global Warming, or is it Climate Change?!
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posted on
06/03/2012 9:14:56 PM PDT
by
Jim from C-Town
(The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
06/03/2012 9:15:56 PM PDT
by
steve8714
(Who didn't already know Obama was our first gay President?)
To: steve8714
LMAO! I guess I’ll have to adjust my maximum time setting in my Delorean!
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
06/03/2012 9:30:59 PM PDT
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: SunkenCiv
Impossible to truly tell without long-term measurements from a third-person perspective.
I’m talking about hundreds of millions of years, and a distance of a few thousand light years away.
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posted on
06/03/2012 9:31:51 PM PDT
by
wastedyears
("God? I didn't know he was signed onto the system.")
To: SunkenCiv
The exact future of our Milky Way and the entire surrounding Local Group of Galaxies is likely to remain an active topic of research for years to come.Should read, "... for billions of years to come."
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posted on
06/03/2012 9:33:45 PM PDT
by
dr_lew
To: SunkenCiv
Question..if all started with a “big bang” from one point then shoun’t all galaxys be expanding away from that point and each other?
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posted on
06/03/2012 9:37:04 PM PDT
by
tophat9000
(American is Barack Oaken)
To: SunkenCiv
This is terrible news! The world populations should have a special tax levied on them to prevent this from happening!
To: tophat9000
You are not supposed to ask questions like that.
Now, go back in to the corner and stay there until we tell you you can leave!
CA....
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posted on
06/03/2012 9:41:52 PM PDT
by
Chances Are
(Seems I've found that silly grin again....)
To: SunkenCiv
“George Noory .... call your office.”
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posted on
06/03/2012 9:45:49 PM PDT
by
jmax
(Be warned....I'm armed. Round is chambered, full magazine is inserted, safety is off.)
To: tophat9000; Chances Are
>>
if all started with a big bang from one point then shount all galaxys be expanding away from that point and each other? > You are not supposed to ask questions like that.
In general you're correct, the universe is expanding.
However, in the expansion, there's still lots of opportunity for individual pieces to mix and recombine, dance around each other, etc. That's how structures like spiral galaxies formed in the first place -- they weren't created as spirals and so forth from the beginning -- they gained their shapes over immense stretches of time. On a smaller scale, explosions of huge stars or groups of stars stir the pot, black holes create distortions, etc. It's incredibly slow and stately, one might say graceful, in the literal sense of being an expression of God's Grace.
The Creation is beyond our comprehension, but it sure is pretty, and fun to marvel at.
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posted on
06/03/2012 9:54:01 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: dayglored
“However, in the expansion, there’s still lots of opportunity for individual pieces to mix and recombine, dance around each other, etc.”
That’s what I also learned about the local bar down the street!
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posted on
06/03/2012 10:14:59 PM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: Jack Hydrazine
>
Thats what I also learned about the local bar down the street! I think that may have more to do with the distortions caused by black holes... ;-)
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posted on
06/03/2012 10:38:04 PM PDT
by
dayglored
(Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
To: tophat9000
There is no point in the universe which is the center of expansion. The universe is LIKE the surface of a sphere which is expanding ... every point on the surface is equivalent, and each point sees everything receding from it.
Ah, but how then can the Andromeda Galaxy be approaching us? The answer is that it is nearby, and the expansion is reflective of a tendency over a much larger scale. The collision of Andromeda with the Milky Way is a local event, like an asteroid strike on the earth.
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posted on
06/04/2012 12:01:38 AM PDT
by
dr_lew
To: Chances Are
You are not supposed to ask questions like that.Don't wallow in your own ignorance. Just a tip.
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posted on
06/04/2012 12:03:53 AM PDT
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dr_lew
To: SunkenCiv
The Milky Way has already collided with several other galaxies.
Still here.
To: dr_lew; Chances Are
"Don't wallow in your own ignorance. Just a tip."
Then take off every Zig.
For great justice.
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posted on
06/04/2012 1:59:22 AM PDT
by
shibumi
(Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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