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Smiley Face galaxy discovered

ambassadormolariambassadormolari Member Posts: 709 Arc User
edited February 2015 in Ten Forward
Look what the Hubble Space Telescope just discovered:

http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1506a/

Proof, perhaps, that there is a Q after all.
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  • organicmanfredorganicmanfred Member Posts: 3,236 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    I thought someone put a special pattern on a Galaxy ship saucer.. :rolleyes:
  • sander233sander233 Member Posts: 3,992 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    ambassadormolari wrote: »
    Proof, perhaps, that there is a Q after all.
    That is EXACTLY like something Q would do.
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  • hawku001xhawku001x Member Posts: 10,768 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    is that galaxy cluster laughing at our galaxy? i think it is.......

    well, i never
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  • steamwrightsteamwright Member Posts: 2,820
    edited February 2015
    sander233 wrote: »
    That is EXACTLY like something Q would do.

    Possibly, but I suspect Q would be more inclined to create a troll face galaxy.
  • alexmakepeacealexmakepeace Member Posts: 10,633 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    Not to spoil anyone's fun, but I don't think it's actually shaped like that. See how distorted it is? I think it's a product of gravitational lensing. Gravitational lensing is pretty much exactly what it sounds like: gravity "bending" light like it would if it passed through a lens.
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  • daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    alexmakepeace wrote: »
    Not to spoil anyone's fun, but I don't think it's actually shaped like that. See how distorted it is? I think it's a product of gravitational lensing. Gravitational lensing is pretty much exactly what it sounds like: gravity "bending" light like it would if it passed through a lens.

    Which is exactly what the article describes following the pic.
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  • alexmakepeacealexmakepeace Member Posts: 10,633 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    daveyny wrote: »
    Which is exactly what the article describes following the pic.
    Well, shame on me for not reading, then.

    Edit: Uh, I mean... I was obviously so overwhelmed with interest in the phenomenon, and when I recognized it, I had to share it right away! Yeah! Right! That's my story and I'm sticking to it! :P
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  • nyxadrillnyxadrill Member Posts: 1,242 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    crashdragon wrote: »
    Thank you, Data. :P

    I think his emotion chip is malfunctioning again :rolleyes:
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  • lonnehartlonnehart Member Posts: 846 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    And now I'm curious. What would it be like to live in a galaxy like that. With gravity around so strong that it could bend space-time... I can only imagine how chaotic things would be (assuming we could even survive in that environment)...
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  • alexmakepeacealexmakepeace Member Posts: 10,633 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    lonnehart wrote: »
    And now I'm curious. What would it be like to live in a galaxy like that. With gravity around so strong that it could bend space-time... I can only imagine how chaotic things would be (assuming we could even survive in that environment)...
    The galaxy is fairly normal (I assume. It's hard to tell with things so far away). What's happening is that there's an object with a strong gravity well between the galaxy and us, which is acting like a lens, kind of like this. What we're seeing is not what the galaxy actually looks like (or looked like, rather. The light from that galaxy has been traveling for a very long time).

    This might make it clearer.
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  • moonshadowdarkmoonshadowdark Member Posts: 1,899 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    I've been to that galaxy and I have to say, the configuration is completely contradictory to the actual demeanor of it's inhabitants. They are very depressed over there. The sun's too hot, the soil's not ideal for growing organic crops, they have to synthesize their food, there are no dilithium deposits for over 25 lightyears so their travel expenses are through the atmosphere. It is a terrible, terrible place.
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  • hawku001xhawku001x Member Posts: 10,768 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    that galaxy cluster is hiding something from us...................... i don't trust it
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  • kimonykimony Member Posts: 571 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    Wow, the universe looks like a disco.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJ3kV3Icm28

    :P

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  • pwecaptainsmirkpwecaptainsmirk Member Posts: 1,167 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    That is very cute :)
  • gulberatgulberat Member Posts: 5,505 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    That IS really awesome. I'd say someone has a sense of humor... :D

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  • sander233sander233 Member Posts: 3,992 Arc User
    edited February 2015
    lonnehart wrote: »
    And now I'm curious. What would it be like to live in a galaxy like that. With gravity around so strong that it could bend space-time... I can only imagine how chaotic things would be (assuming we could even survive in that environment)...

    Local gravity would be perfectly normal on whatever planet you happened to be standing on. Just like gravity is normal for us despite there being a much, much, much more massive celestial object only 93 million miles away.

    This huge object - which we'll call "the sun" just to keep things simple - actually depresses local spacetime enough to keep our planet, like seven or eight others, and a vast array of smaller objects in a fairly tight proximity to it. All mass affects spacetime in this way. That's how gravity works.

    But we're not pulled off our planet and sucked into the sun, because the force of gravity is a function of mass over distance. We are much, much closer to our little planet than we are to the sun, so our little planet's gravity affects us much more strongly.

    What's happening to create this cosmic lensing effect is on cosmic distances. This galaxy cluster that's creating the gravitational lens is like a sack of marbles sitting on the "giant rubber sheet" that is the fabric of spacetime, where each marble is an entire galaxy. Within that marble, gravity works the same way it does in any other marble, exept for maybe way out at the very fringes far away from any individual star you would find yourself not drawn toward the center quite as strongly, because of the gravitational effect of other marbles touching your own.
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