Nasa’s picture of the day
Mon, Jul 27, 2009
Post filled in: Great Pics, Space
This is a wicked one for sure! Basically, nobody really knows what’s going on there, except for the fact that it probably involves a supermassive black hole. The whole picture seems to be rather a Dali painting of an eye, as the red-in-infrared spiral wraps around the smaller blue companion galaxy. The pink lighting you see is actually glowing dust. What’s interesting is that the gravity of the smaller galaxy appears to be reshaping the larger galaxy, while itself is being slowly destroyed.
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Andrei is no scientist, but from an early age, he has been fascinated by science; that's why he went to college, and signed up for Geophysics. Feeling that there's a huge gap between science and average people, he rallied TP, started ZME Science, and gave it a green twist too.
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July 28th, 2009 at 8:24 am
Here is a link to the original nasa picture and related explanation.
September 3rd, 2009 at 8:23 pm
Hi Merjin, I appreciate your contributions.
I’ve been trying to remember what the term is
for the ability we have to see patterns in clouds
and patterns of mud-spatter or what-not
and make images from them.
As I look at this fascinating image (and of course
they’re all fascinating) I see two
rings of stars: one at about 12 oclock
and another at about 8 oclock.
They seem so similar It makes me wonder about the
what some scientist suggested that many images of stars
are simply the same image being bent circularly around
the black hole. Perhaps showing a formation with a differential
of billions of years or?
Is that possible
September 3rd, 2009 at 9:09 pm
Talk about synchronicity:
Just heard the term on the radio:
‘pareidolia’: seeing sheep in clouds, etc.