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: NGC 3628, which a sNASA experts believe is a spiral galaxy seen sideways.
Dark dust lanes cut across the middle of this spectacular island universe similar in size to our Milky Way is about 35 million light-years away in the northern springtime constellation Leo. A faint arm of material also extends to the left in this sharp and deep view of the region. Credit & Copyright: Keith Quattrocchi
Kinda looks like lady parts to me... I'm going with Labia Majora
Posted by: Jim | July 23, 2008 at 02:11 AM
This resembles nothing more than a slice of bacon. The Bacon Galaxy? Pigasus? How does one make a piece of bacon sound stellar and poetic?
Posted by: Kurt | July 23, 2008 at 06:23 AM
Althesia
or
Intorenna
or
Diskartelo
Posted by: Yordan Yanakiev | July 23, 2008 at 06:25 AM
How about 'The Streaky Galaxy' then
Posted by: Paul G | July 23, 2008 at 06:50 AM
Viscid Jorum
Posted by: CreaShawn | July 23, 2008 at 09:22 AM
@Kurt - Lady parts look like bacon strips.
So, I vote Baconia Majora
Posted by: Brad | July 23, 2008 at 09:49 AM
No doubt about it:
Dirty Sanchez
Posted by: SkipLas Vegas | July 23, 2008 at 10:35 AM
How about iceberg since you can only see a small portion of it similar to how 99% of an iceberg is underwater.
Posted by: pwdrskier | July 23, 2008 at 07:34 PM
In keeping with some of the above posts, what about
" Sigmund's Spiral " ?
Sometimes a galaxy is just a galaxy.....
Posted by: knoxvilledaniel | July 24, 2008 at 11:25 AM
Sarcophagus - Look at it closely and you will see a "mummy" inside. On the right is the head with eye, nose and mouth clearly visible. You can also see the folded arms and buttock. The legs are thin and long.
Posted by: Adib Behi | July 24, 2008 at 09:53 PM
Fried Egg Galaxy!
Posted by: Aaron | July 24, 2008 at 11:08 PM
What's the latin term for skid-mark?
Skiddiem-marcus?
Posted by: Mark Rees-Andersen | July 25, 2008 at 04:09 AM
Deer Leg
Posted by: Ron | July 25, 2008 at 08:35 AM
Pooh's Stick...
Posted by: Darren | July 25, 2008 at 12:27 PM
This might sound weird but...Dragon's_Death_Cloud 299.81.67RB_Hack_Me_Now. (I do NOT play web games too much) :P
Posted by: Summer Glau | July 25, 2008 at 04:44 PM
Oh, yes and Jim you are a sicko.
I have another good one how about Pankakius (Pan-Cake-Ki-Us)
Sort-of flat looking to me.
Posted by: Summer Glau | July 26, 2008 at 11:18 AM
Bacon strip
Posted by: michael | July 27, 2008 at 12:54 PM
The Mist Galaxy.
Posted by: David Posner | July 27, 2008 at 10:19 PM
Neurona.
That middle part looks like some gray matter.
Posted by: LIz | July 28, 2008 at 01:51 PM