You Name the Cosmos

Many of the recent discoveries by the Hubble Space Telescope have been "named" with numbers. Gone are the poetic, mythic names like Milky Way or Andromeda or Pegasus.

Let's have some fun and help NASA out and create names for these awesome celestial objects.

We'll select your best submissions and send them off to NASA headquarters.

What's your name for: Galaxy Cluster 0735 located about 2.6 billion light-years away in the constellation Camelopardalis.

The optical view of the galaxy cluster, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys in February 2006, shows dozens of galaxies bound together by gravity.

Hot gas with a temperature of nearly 50 million degrees permeates the space between the galaxies. The gas emits X-rays, seen as blue in the image taken with the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The X-ray portion of the image shows enormous holes or cavities in the gas, each roughly 640,000 light-years in diameter — nearly seven times the diameter of the Milky Way.

The cavities are filled with charged particles gyrating around magnetic field lines and emitting radio waves shown in the red portion of image taken with the Very Large Array telescope in New Mexico.

The cavities were created by jets of charged particles ejected at nearly light speed from a super-massive black hole weighing nearly a billion times the mass of our Sun lurking in the nucleus of the bright central galaxy. The jets displaced more than one trillion solar masses worth of gas. The power required to displace the gas exceeded the power output of the Sun by nearly ten trillion times in the past 100 million years.

Posted by Jason McManus.

Comments

[Alon Rozenblit]

I'd name this cluster:

Rotor Cloud

[Yordan Yanakiev]

Giant Egg

or

Cenesdea

or

Galetoria

[Philip HARDS]

The Camel's Humps

[Kevin Jackson]

This one was easy, to me it needs to be called the Electric Guitar Galaxy.

[Mark]

Nebular Seal.

[Dante DeNavarre]

The Yin-Yang cluster, because it looks like the symbol, it would include a name from a star-gazing majority culture that predates the Greek, and the concept of clashing duality is certainly demonstrated in this ultra-violent war between matter and gravity; between spacetime and no-space-no-time (the core black hole).

[Kurt]

Labrys

[michael]

THE ROTOR

[Nicholas Arnold]

The Cello Nebula

[michael taylor]

Space Menstruation

[CreaShawn]

Jeffersonian Bedim

[rizzo]

let's call it purple haze

[Kurt]

Nice rizzo - Purple Haze rules!

[MikeyG]

Name it --- Baal --- after the character in StarGate SG1

[knoxvilledaniel]

Camelopardalis' Eye.

or

The Feather of Ma'at.

[Adib Behi]

Casper the Friendly Ghost

[Summer Glau]

Black-Blue Nightshade

[Bravo33]

I don't believe NASA names galaxies. That would be the International Astronomical Union.