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Thud
03-23-2011, 7:42am
Closest Galaxy Discovered (http://www.universetoday.com/9003/closest-galaxy-discovered/)



So it turns out that another galaxy is COLLIDING WITH OUR OWN GALAXY at this very moment! :hurray:



An international team of astronomers from France, Italy, the UK and Australia has found a previously unknown galaxy colliding with our own Milky Way. This newly-discovered galaxy takes the record for the nearest galaxy to the centre of the Milky Way. Called the Canis Major dwarf galaxy after the constellation in which it lies, it is about 25000 light years away from thesolar system and 42000 light years from the centre of the Milky Way. This i closer than the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy, discovered in 1994, which is also colliding with the Milky Way. The discovery shows that the Milky Way is building up its own disk by absorbing small satellite galaxies. The research is to be published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society within the next few weeks.


The Milky Way is badass. It eats other galaxies for lunch.
DAB
03-23-2011, 8:21am
Nom nom nom.
kylebuck
03-23-2011, 8:23am
Nom nom nom.

Om nom nom nom
Entropy
03-23-2011, 8:34am
Super :cool:
DAB
03-23-2011, 8:37am
Om nom nom nom

Burp.
kylebuck
03-23-2011, 8:37am
Burp.
god bless you
DAB
03-23-2011, 8:40am
god bless you

Thanks. Lot of gas in this diet.
kylebuck
03-23-2011, 8:42am
Thanks. Lot of gas in this diet.

be sure to eat some fiber and what not.
wicked_c6
03-23-2011, 8:49am
Mmm...galaxies...the other other other white meat. Lil salt and some butter...
clutchdust
03-23-2011, 10:59am
So will this make us the "king size" Milky Way?
BondiBlue
03-23-2011, 11:05am
http://i52.tinypic.com/rbgozm.jpg
Cybercowboy
03-23-2011, 11:29am
It's arrogant imperialistic acts such as this that makes our galaxy a pariah among civilized galaxies. We act unilaterally and with impunity, and get all surprised when other small galaxies lash out against us the only way they can, with their black holes of death. Sure, we got a loose coalition of similar-minded galaxies such as the Magellanic Cloud to join forces with us, but they are all just small insignificant galaxies that are simply afraid we might consume them too.

The galactic chickens will one day come home to roost!
high desert
03-23-2011, 1:33pm
It's arrogant imperialistic acts such as this that makes our galaxy a pariah among civilized galaxies. We act unilaterally and with impunity, and get all surprised when other small galaxies lash out against us the only way they can, with their black holes of death. Sure, we got a loose coalition of similar-minded galaxies such as the Magellanic Cloud to join forces with us, but they are all just small insignificant galaxies that are simply afraid we might consume them too.

The galactic chickens will one day come home to roost!

:rofl:
Petew1971
03-23-2011, 2:10pm
:beer:
Bucwheat
03-23-2011, 2:41pm
And I thought I came to work drunk,knew the world was shaking.
Sleestak
03-23-2011, 3:46pm
I finally made it to a winning team.
OddBall
03-23-2011, 7:19pm
It's arrogant imperialistic acts such as this that makes our galaxy a pariah among civilized galaxies. We act unilaterally and with impunity, and get all surprised when other small galaxies lash out against us the only way they can, with their black holes of death. Sure, we got a loose coalition of similar-minded galaxies such as the Magellanic Cloud to join forces with us, but they are all just small insignificant galaxies that are simply afraid we might consume them too.

The galactic chickens will one day come home to roost!

galaxy lover