RE: [asa] Colliding Galaxies

Wow!!!! Stunning! Even the coloration is close.

I'll bet they didn't use the museum's Commodore 64 or Apple II, assuming
they have one or both. J

For those who may not know, the Milky Way is currently absorbing at least
one dwarf galaxy. The "duck and cover" order will not be needed,
fortunately. J

[If you stop the movie at 31 seconds and ask yourself what kind of
description would be used by an ancient human observer - and allow the
purple color depicted to be blue instead, as would be the case for the Solar
accretion disk of dust and gas - who was seeing a vast blue flattened disk,
you might think "waters" could have easily been used. Note the area beyond
where darkness is upon the face of the deep. I hope you don't mind my plug
for my Gen. 1 view.]

"Coope"

From: asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu [mailto:asa-owner@lists.calvin.edu] On
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Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 8:56 AM
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Subject: [asa] Colliding Galaxies

Very cool visualization:
http://sciencebulletins.amnh.org/?sid=a.v.collisions.20050909
<http://sciencebulletins.amnh.org/?sid=a.v.collisions.20050909&src=l> &src=l

-- 
David W. Opderbeck
Associate Professor of Law
Seton Hall University Law School
Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology 
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