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July 22, 2008

You Name the Cosmos

Ngc5426_gemini_2 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

Comments

Neil Pickersgill

The Spiral Eyes of Gemeni

Yordan Yanakiev

Fellano & Fellena

Richard Reynolds

Battling Tops

Allen McGrath

9 Ball Corner Pocket

Allen McGrath

9 Ball Corner Pocket

Kurt

Romulus & Remus or Cain & Abel

kevin jackson

"Yin and Yang" Galaxies

michael

Any poets?...."Chasing teens"

michael taylor

Snake Eyes

CreaShawn

Volution Tandem

Dennis

Dang. Missed again!

rizzo

Jacob and Esau or The Brothers Gibb

richard

Romulus and Remus

richard

Romulus and Remus

pwdrskier

fatal attraction

fred palme

the tango dancers

fred

the tango-galaxies

Barrie O'Leary

Vulcan's Forge.

Peter Davis

Loving Neighbours

knoxvilledaniel

Virgo's Children.

knoxvilledaniel

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.

Adib Behi

"My Precious" - Gollum - from Lord of the Rings

Summer Glau

Race and Hydrolatherine.

Summer Glau

Oh yes, and, Gilgamesh and Enkidu weren't brothers.

bne cutts

the helical eyes


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