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: Spiral galaxies NGC 5426 and NGC 5427, which are passing perilously close to each other, but each is likely to survive the collision.
Most frequently when galaxies collide, according to NASA experts, a large galaxy eats a much smaller galaxy. In this case, however, the two galaxies are quite similar, each being a sprawling spiral with expansive arms and a compact core. Close inspection of the above image taken by the 8-meter Gemini-South Telescope in Chile shows a bridge of material momentarily connecting the two giants. Known collectively as Arp 271, the interacting pair spans about 130,000 light years and lies about 90 million light-years away toward the constellation of Virgo. Credit & Copyright: Gemini Observatory, GMOS-South, NSF
The Spiral Eyes of Gemeni
Posted by: Neil Pickersgill | July 22, 2008 at 12:20 AM
Fellano & Fellena
Posted by: Yordan Yanakiev | July 22, 2008 at 02:47 AM
Battling Tops
Posted by: Richard Reynolds | July 22, 2008 at 03:07 AM
9 Ball Corner Pocket
Posted by: Allen McGrath | July 22, 2008 at 05:06 AM
9 Ball Corner Pocket
Posted by: Allen McGrath | July 22, 2008 at 05:07 AM
Romulus & Remus or Cain & Abel
Posted by: Kurt | July 22, 2008 at 05:26 AM
"Yin and Yang" Galaxies
Posted by: kevin jackson | July 22, 2008 at 06:26 AM
Any poets?...."Chasing teens"
Posted by: michael | July 22, 2008 at 07:08 AM
Snake Eyes
Posted by: michael taylor | July 22, 2008 at 08:08 AM
Volution Tandem
Posted by: CreaShawn | July 22, 2008 at 12:32 PM
Dang. Missed again!
Posted by: Dennis | July 22, 2008 at 12:56 PM
Jacob and Esau or The Brothers Gibb
Posted by: rizzo | July 22, 2008 at 03:58 PM
Romulus and Remus
Posted by: richard | July 23, 2008 at 07:55 AM
Romulus and Remus
Posted by: richard | July 23, 2008 at 07:56 AM
fatal attraction
Posted by: pwdrskier | July 23, 2008 at 07:38 PM
the tango dancers
Posted by: fred palme | July 24, 2008 at 04:23 AM
the tango-galaxies
Posted by: fred | July 24, 2008 at 04:48 AM
Vulcan's Forge.
Posted by: Barrie O'Leary | July 24, 2008 at 05:17 AM
Loving Neighbours
Posted by: Peter Davis | July 24, 2008 at 07:15 AM
Virgo's Children.
Posted by: knoxvilledaniel | July 24, 2008 at 10:52 AM
Gilgamesh and Enkidu - They look almost like brothers of a kind. All they need is another galaxy nearby to be called " The Great Bull of Heaven " or " Humbaba / Huwawa " from the Gilgamesh legend.
Posted by: knoxvilledaniel | July 24, 2008 at 10:58 AM
"My Precious" - Gollum - from Lord of the Rings
Posted by: Adib Behi | July 24, 2008 at 02:05 PM
Race and Hydrolatherine.
Posted by: Summer Glau | July 25, 2008 at 04:51 PM
Oh yes, and, Gilgamesh and Enkidu weren't brothers.
Posted by: Summer Glau | July 25, 2008 at 04:53 PM
the helical eyes
Posted by: bne cutts | July 25, 2008 at 07:03 PM