Once the Hubble telescope finally calls it a day we will cease to get images such as the one in this article. Basically at range of 1.4 billion light years from here, two galaxies are in orbit around one another.
The larger one (dubbed Death Star Galaxy by the astronomers) has been observed emitting a jet of high energy particles and magnetic fields into the path of the other galaxy. This will cause all sorts of problems for anything unfortunate enough to end up in it’s path.
Seeing as how we are on a space theme today you might like to head over to Paradise Driver’s place where he put up a stunning image of a spiral galaxy yesterday. If you have the bandwith download the 16 Mb image - it is really worth it - stunning picture.
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That was a really nice image over at Paradise's blog.
So cool!
Gack, 16 meg would have us in the black hole of excessive download allotment sins for days. But it's ever so tempting to see two galaxies squaring off - I would cheer for the underdog as usual.
rt, so cool that I am now using it as the wallpaper on my screen.
Lin, The black hole images are much smaller and you have to click to download the 16 meg imagen of the spiral.
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