Concepts create idols; only wonder grasps anything. - St Gregory of Nyssa

Thursday, July 28, 2011

Beauty to make the heart ache

The center of our Milky Way galaxy can easily be seen due to the always clear skies of the Atacama 

In Canada

 

This ring around the Milky Way Galaxy discovered by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey may be what's left of a collision between our Galaxy and a smaller, dwarf galaxy that occurred billions of years ago. It's an indication that at least part of our galaxy was formed by a lot of smaller or dwarf galaxies mixing together, explained investigators Heidi Jo Newberg of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Brian Yanny of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory's Experimental Astrophysics Group. CREDIT: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (www.sdss.org) 

 

  31 “Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades,
Or loose the cords of Orion?
32 “Can you lead forth a constellation in its season,
And guide the Bear with her satellites?
33 “Do you know the ordinances of the heavens,
Or fix their rule over the earth? 

Book of Job, Chapter 38


 

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