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06-16-2006, 09:43 PM
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Stars Gone Wild!! Photos of "THE BIRTH"!!!
Nope, not Bradjolena and Shilo, something more tame.....
hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/2006/26/ Staring into the crowded, dusty core of two merging galaxies, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered a region where star formation has gone wild. The interacting galaxies appear as a single, odd-looking galaxy called Arp 220. The galaxy is a nearby example of the aftermath of two colliding galaxies. In fact, Arp 220 is the brightest of the three galactic mergers closest to Earth. This latest view of the galaxy is yielding new insights into the early universe, when galactic wrecks were more common. The sharp eye of Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys has unveiled more than 200 mammoth star clusters. The clusters are the bluish-white dots scattered throughout the image. 
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06-16-2006, 09:56 PM
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Oh, I thought this was about something important
I thought this was about celebrities, Cap'n. You tricked me. This is just stuff about the galaxy.
You got anything new on Scientology Tom, or Paris,? How 'bout Britney . . . hmmm?
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06-16-2006, 10:16 PM
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Quote:
The Galaxy Song (from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, 1983) Composers: Eric Idle & John Du Prez Author: Eric Idle Singer: Eric Idle From the 'Meaning of Life' album, MCA Records MCA 6121 Used with permission from Bob Warne, Content Editor, ARTISTdirect, Los Angeles http://www.artistdirect.com/ (email of 23 January 2001). Lyrics: Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown, And things seem hard or tough, And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft, And you feel that you've had quite eno-o-o-o-o-ough... Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour, That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned, Round a sun that is the source of all our power. The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see Are moving at a million miles a day In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour, Of the galaxy we call the "Milky Way". Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars. It's a hundred thousand light years side to side. It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick, But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide. We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point. We go 'round every two hundred million years, And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions In this amazing and expanding universe. (Animated calliope interlude) The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding In all of the directions it can whizz As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know, Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is. So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure, How amazingly unlikely is your birth, And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space, 'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.
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