Light Eye
06-03-2006, 12:59 PM
dear friends,
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060529/milkyway_spa.html
be well, be love.
david
study: milky way is tentacled beast
by larry o'hanlon, discovery news
june 2, 2006 ? our galaxy is a much wilder looking tentacled beast than
suspected, say astronomers who have used a new technique to map the milky way.
using data from a painstaking galaxy-wide survey of hydrogen gas clouds
throughout the milky way, radio astronomers found that instead of being a clean,
symmetrical spiral, our home galaxy has extra long arms sprouting out on one
side and is warped and armless on the other.
the odd layout could be the result of colossal cannibalistic galactic
collisions or intergalactic "tides."
astronomer leo blitz of the university of california at berkeley said the most
surprising thing about the spiral arms on our half of the milky way "is that we
could see spiral structure all the way to the edge of the (galactic) disk."
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http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060529/milkyway_spa.html
be well, be love.
david
study: milky way is tentacled beast
by larry o'hanlon, discovery news
june 2, 2006 ? our galaxy is a much wilder looking tentacled beast than
suspected, say astronomers who have used a new technique to map the milky way.
using data from a painstaking galaxy-wide survey of hydrogen gas clouds
throughout the milky way, radio astronomers found that instead of being a clean,
symmetrical spiral, our home galaxy has extra long arms sprouting out on one
side and is warped and armless on the other.
the odd layout could be the result of colossal cannibalistic galactic
collisions or intergalactic "tides."
astronomer leo blitz of the university of california at berkeley said the most
surprising thing about the spiral arms on our half of the milky way "is that we
could see spiral structure all the way to the edge of the (galactic) disk."
[non-text portions of this message have been removed]