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: Ring Galaxy AM0644-741, likely produced after a collision between two or more galaxies with a relatively narrow range of encounter velocities, relative masses, and impact parameters.
The Great Egg
or
Turkey Egg
or
Colaborix
Posted by: Yordan Yanakiev | July 31, 2008 at 12:44 AM
How about the "Ostrea Galaxy"? Ostrea being the Latin name for "oyster".
Posted by: Miez | July 31, 2008 at 06:15 AM
the fairy ring constellation
Posted by: planet of the apes | July 31, 2008 at 07:36 AM
How about Ouroboros, the serpent eating it's own tail? After all, the symbol is traditionally a ring, and represents the cycle of life and death as well as eternity. Seems to fit pretty well for a ring galaxy created by the collision of two other galaxies...
Posted by: OkhamsFolly | July 31, 2008 at 10:19 AM
Hawk Eye
Posted by: Adib Behi | July 31, 2008 at 01:50 PM
The Maelstrom Galaxy
Posted by: GumbyTheCat | July 31, 2008 at 01:57 PM
Carboniferous FootyPrints is my name for it.
Posted by: Fremon Sandlewould | July 31, 2008 at 04:59 PM
The Bigger Womb
Posted by: General Zod | August 01, 2008 at 02:03 PM
The Crying Angel
Posted by: Robie Martin | August 01, 2008 at 06:08 PM
Sunny Side Up
Posted by: Vierotchka | August 02, 2008 at 05:55 AM
The Amoeba Galaxy
Posted by: Hasib | August 02, 2008 at 11:21 AM
ATOM
Posted by: michael | August 02, 2008 at 07:00 PM
utera galaxy
Posted by: allx | August 03, 2008 at 05:43 PM
The Great Paramecium!
Posted by: Ali S. | August 04, 2008 at 12:54 PM
neverland
Posted by: simply insane | August 05, 2008 at 05:12 AM
(The Exanovia)
Posted by: Ousama | August 05, 2008 at 05:13 AM
How about the foetus galaxy, as it looks like an early foetus.
Posted by: wayno | December 08, 2008 at 09:31 PM