supertzar
27-06-2007, 10:35 PM
A lot of people have probably seen this already. It's so incredible I wanted to post it anyway. The Milky Way is chewing up a galaxy that might be our own, the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy!
http://viewzone.com/milkyway.html
http://viewzone.com/milkyway1.jpg
A new infra red digital survey of the entire sky was made in 2003. Teams from the universities of Virginia and Massachusetts used a supercomputer to sort through half a billion stars to create a -- NEW STAR MAP showing our Solar System (yellow circle) to be at the exact nexus crossroads where two galaxies are actually joining.
http://viewzone.com/milkyway.html
http://viewzone.com/milkyway1.jpg
A new infra red digital survey of the entire sky was made in 2003. Teams from the universities of Virginia and Massachusetts used a supercomputer to sort through half a billion stars to create a -- NEW STAR MAP showing our Solar System (yellow circle) to be at the exact nexus crossroads where two galaxies are actually joining.