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[MoonStarer420]

37...did you expect 42?

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

MoonStarer420 Reviewed by MoonStarer420 on 02-09-2006. The answer to life, the Universe, and everything! 37...did you expect 42? This is open cluster NGC 2169, eerie isn't it? Rating: 5

[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 looks kind of like a horsehead.

[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 looks kind of like a horsehead.

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. And here. And a paper on it.

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