37...did you expect 42?
This is open cluster NGC 2169, eerie isn't it?
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37...did you expect 42?
This is open cluster NGC 2169, eerie isn't it?
(Expected 42.) I've read H2G2 way too many times. :(
um..... ok, it all makes sense now.... thanks
could you explain what ur talking about, and what that picture is.
I thought it was Lollipop.Quote:
Originally Posted by MoonStarer420
wrong again for me,..
:(
You wont get it unless you've read the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.Quote:
Originally Posted by PureEvil760
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.
Can you explain galaxy ngc4622?
How it formed? Or why it looks like 37?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir Les
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 looks kind of like a horsehead.
Oops too stoned, thought you were talking about the open cluster stillQuote:
Originally Posted by MoonStarer420
APOD (Astronomy Pictureof the Day) explains it here. And here. And a paper on it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir Les
Two spiral galaxies collided. Gravitational interations between spirals and other galaxies produce the spirals.