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[MoonStarer420]

37...did you expect 42?

This is open cluster NGC 2169, eerie isn't it?

[newbie1232]

(Expected 42.) I've read H2G2 way too many times. :(

[mrdevious]

um..... ok, it all makes sense now.... thanks

[PureEvil760]

could you explain what ur talking about, and what that picture is.

[S8ted]

37...did you expect 42?

This is open cluster NGC 2169, eerie isn't it?

I thought it was Lollipop.
wrong again for me,..
:(

[MoonStarer420]

could you explain what ur talking about, and what that picture is.

You wont get it unless you've read the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

The picture is an open cluster (a loose assosiation of stars) and it resembles the numbers 37. It only looks this way because of our viewing angle, if we were looking at it from the side or top, it would look compleatly diffrerent.

[Sir Les]

Can you explain galaxy ngc4622?

[MoonStarer420]

Can you explain galaxy ngc4622?

How it formed? Or why it looks like 37?

It formed out of compressed gas cloud. It only looks like 37 because thats what our brain thinks it sees. It's mear chance. Just like the horsehead nebula (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050321.html) looks kind of like a horsehead. (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990519.html)

[MoonStarer420]

How it formed? Or why it looks like 37?

It formed out of compressed gas cloud. It only looks like 37 because thats what our brain thinks it sees. It's mear chance. Just like the horsehead nebula (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050321.html) looks kind of like a horsehead. (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990519.html)

Oops too stoned, thought you were talking about the open cluster still

[MoonStarer420]

Can you explain galaxy ngc4622?

APOD (Astronomy Pictureof the Day) explains it here (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040221.html). And here. (http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Rings/Rings17_1.html) And a paper on it. (http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0211002)

Two spiral galaxies collided. Gravitational interations between spirals and other galaxies produce the spirals.

[Sir Les]

APOD (Astronomy Pictureof the Day) explains it here (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040221.html). And here. (http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Rings/Rings17_1.html) And a paper on it. (http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0211002)

Two spiral galaxies collided. Gravitational interations between spirals and other galaxies produce the spirals.

Yes But this one is special because, they are opposing spirals..one on the inside appears to be spinning in the opposite direction to the outer one.
And the outer arms are spinning backwards to the usual galaxy forms we see.
And the galaxy is collecting new stars in the outer arms...makes this galaxy specail...
What Kind of gravity can hold to opposing galaxies together, and spin them in this way goes beyond what is on paper.
I'd like to sayGod is showing us what he can do...backwards and forwards.

Something in the Bible about the dragon taking out 1/3rd of the stars from heaven....makes me go hmmmm.

[MoonStarer420]

And the galaxy is collecting new stars in the outer arms...

...appears ......What Kind of gravity can hold to opposing galaxies together...

Something in the Bible about the dragon taking out 1/3rd of the stars from heaven....makes me go hmmmm.


I do you mean forming? Galaxies don't exactly collect stars.

Gravity is gravity. Plus they haven't exactly merged. "Appears" is the keyword here. It's more likely one is passing though the other and not that one is actually imbedded in the other. Keep in mind these are huge distances were talking about here. When one passes though another no stars will collide only the gas and dust (which will cause the galaxies to "collect" new stars.

I donâ??t know what dragon youâ??re talking about or what you are even talking about here.

If you look at enough galaxies (There are an infinite amount of them) you'll usally find one that will show you something new.

[Sir Les]

Something in the Bible about the dragon taking out 1/3rd of the stars from heaven....makes me go hmmmm.

Rev 12:3-5

[MoonStarer420]

Rev 12:3-5

I only know of Greek and Roman mythology.

[Sir Les]

I only know of Greek and Roman mythology.


12:3 Then another portant appeared in heaven: a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and seven diadems on his head. 12:4 his tail swept down a thirdof the stars of heaven and threw them to the Earth. then the dragon stood before the woman who was about to bear a child, so that he might devour her child as soon as was born !2:5and she Gave Birth to a Son, a male child, who is to rule all the nations with a rod of Iron.
But her child was snatched away and taken to God and his throne;


A red dragon...Red =in opposition, or under friction, presure, against the grain.

dragon= the liar, two faced, deceptive, contraie, opposite the common, backwards.

Now you know another mythology.

Sir Les

[Euphoric]

37...did you expect 42?

This is open cluster NGC 2169, eerie isn't it?

This is your concept of spirituality? Stars? Hahah...i pity you :p

[Funkamander]

^ Go blow a Freemason.