What about gravitational lensing? Wouldn't a spiral galaxy looks something like this after a lensing effect?
I am curious to find out.
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- Tue Sep 14, 2010 10:32 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: An Extraordinary Spiral from LL Pegasi (2010 Sep 14)
- Replies: 45
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- Sun Aug 29, 2010 5:38 pm
- Forum: The Communications Center: Breaking Science News
- Topic: SAO: Water-Ice Super-Earths
- Replies: 3
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Re: SAO: Water-Ice Super-Earths
All this theorizing about the composition of exoplanets is good. however, within our life time and many more life times, we will never know if this present theory is true or some future theory is true. Extrasolar theories about planets and other celestial bodies carries no weight, because the cannot...
- Sun Aug 22, 2010 3:42 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Layered Hills in Arabia Terra on Mars (2010 Aug 15)
- Replies: 31
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Re: APOD: Layered Hills in Arabia Terra on Mars (2010 Aug 15
Could this be an area of superheated mud in the past?
Superheated mud would spurt out periodically forming circular patterns overtime and building hills or mounds. The lower smooth areas could have been where water settled out after mud and steam gushed after an eruption...
Superheated mud would spurt out periodically forming circular patterns overtime and building hills or mounds. The lower smooth areas could have been where water settled out after mud and steam gushed after an eruption...
- Sun Aug 22, 2010 3:17 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Hoags Object: A Strange Ring Galaxy (2010 Aug 22)
- Replies: 47
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Re: APOD: Hoags Object: A Strange Ring Galaxy (2010 Aug 22)
Sirs/Madam, This is my first discusion on this forum and it has been prompted by the Hubble's Picture of the Hoags Object. Although it has been labeled a ring galaxy, it appears as if it is something else. The galaxy has a concentration of stars toward the observer, that appear to diffuse and spread...