Foreign galaxy merging with Milky Way!
Fasten your seatbelts, space cadets: A foreign galaxy is colliding with the Milky Way, as we speak. Personally, the china in my apartment hasn't yet begun to rattle, but a survey by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey recently discovered it. It's a dwarf galaxy that lies roughly perpendicular to Milky Way, and, at only 30,000 light years away, is already well within our galaxy's confines. If you look up in the direction of the constellation Virgo, you'll see it.
Indeed, we've been able to see it for years, according to a Sloan press release:
"Some of the stars in this Milky Way companion have been seen with telescopes for centuries,'" explained Princeton University graduate student Mario Juric, principal author of the findings describing what may well be our closest galactic neighbor. "But because the galaxy is so close, its stars are spread over a huge swath of the sky, and they always used to be lost in the sea of more numerous Milky Way stars. This galaxy is so big, we couldn't see it before."
Posted by Clive Thompson at January 11, 2006 12:26 PM
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Hope the family is doing well and getting enough sleep.
Posted by: garthbreaks at January 11, 2006 3:27 PM
Man I can't wail till I can start exploring different galaxies and differet solar systems when they invent some type of faster than light travel, the closest they'll do is from Heim's theory of using magetics to create or warp gravity. U heard of that one? They will do an experiment on that soon.
Posted by: nova9 at January 11, 2006 5:26 PM
Posted by: nova9 at January 11, 2006 5:30 PM
Hey, very cool like, nova9! That's damn interesting:
The theoretical engine works by creating an intense magnetic field that, according to ideas first developed by the late scientist Burkhard Heim in the 1950s, would produce a gravitational field and result in thrust for a spacecraft.
Also, if a large enough magnetic field was created, the craft would slip into a different dimension, where the speed of light is faster, allowing incredible speeds to be reached. Switching off the magnetic field would result in the engine reappearing in our current dimension.
I'm in!
Garth, family life is a blast! And now I'm finally getting some time to blog, which rocks.
Posted by: Clive at January 11, 2006 11:42 PM
Pretty awesome. Astronomy is still an absolutely amazing and fascinating subject.
Posted by: Jim at January 13, 2006 2:25 PM
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Welcome back!
Hope the family is doing well and getting enough sleep.
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at January 11, 2006 3:27 PM
Man I can't wail till I can start exploring different galaxies and differet solar systems when they invent some type of faster than light travel, the closest they'll do is from Heim's theory of using magetics to create or warp gravity. U heard of that one? They will do an experiment on that soon.
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at January 11, 2006 5:26 PM
Here, Clive.
http://www.toptechnews.com/story.xhtml?story_id=0110000DD4EE
Did a search on google news: "heim's theory"
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at January 11, 2006 5:30 PM
Hey, very cool like, nova9! That's damn interesting:
I'm in!
Garth, family life is a blast! And now I'm finally getting some time to blog, which rocks.
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at January 11, 2006 11:42 PM
Pretty awesome. Astronomy is still an absolutely amazing and fascinating subject.
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at January 13, 2006 2:25 PM