Death Star Galaxy - images of an aggressive stellar force

**stoph** · December 18th, 2007, 06:09 AM

how cool is this? around 1.4 billion lightyears away, this galaxy is shooting a focussed stream of deadly radiation at a neighbouring galaxy. its like its one massive photon cannon! this is the stuff geeks' wet dreams are made of

**Snarfevs** · December 18th, 2007, 06:54 AM

Polar jets are insane. Check out this one from M87 - wiki says it's ~5000 light years long.

**Sepulverture** · December 18th, 2007, 07:38 AM

the universe is something that I've always been in love with. Any time there's a documentary about space on the learning channel, or anything similar I'm all over it like white on rice!

I like this thread already, hope it can grow!

**m.engdahl** · December 18th, 2007, 07:42 AM

Space is damn cool, although kinda scary

Sepulverture, i think what you have there might be the first evidence of an intergalactic wiener

**Snarfevs** · December 18th, 2007, 08:12 AM

Originally Posted by m.engdahl

Sepulverture, i think what you have there might be the first evidence of an intergalactic wiener

That's a herbig-haro object. They're much smaller than the black hole jets (still ridiculously massive though) and are produced when a mummy gas cloud and a daddy gas cloud love each other very much. I'm surprised sepulverture was able to get the uncensored version.

I lie. It's a polar jet from a coalescing star.

**archipelago** · December 18th, 2007, 08:39 AM

if there are any living species in that galaxy... they're FUCKED

**Wasker** · December 18th, 2007, 09:35 AM

So that's where them space terrorists had them weapons!

Nuke galaxy!

**N D Hill** · December 18th, 2007, 10:59 AM

meh. I'm sure it has an 6 meter exhaust port on it somwehere.

**Vhan Juju** · December 18th, 2007, 11:39 AM

Great, now I have the sudden urge to play EvE online again...Noooo!

Thats insane! Space never stops supriseing me...and kinda scary don't ya think?

**Moai** · December 18th, 2007, 03:58 PM

That's awesome. Think of all the science-fictional possibilities, such as a superadvanced civilization harnessing or even creating one of these as a weapon.

**Jabo** · December 18th, 2007, 05:36 PM

Originally Posted by Sepulverture

the universe is something that I've always been in love with. Any time there's a documentary about space on the learning channel, or anything similar I'm all over it like white on rice!

I like this thread already, hope it can grow!

QFT FFS!

**Costau D** · December 18th, 2007, 06:28 PM

Sucks how the coolest and prettiest natural things that exhist are most likely to kill a person.

**Jabo** · December 18th, 2007, 07:25 PM

That wouldn't keep me from touching it, actually

But it's so faaaaaaaar away.

**Silvertone** · December 18th, 2007, 07:25 PM

That is very cool.

Sigh, humanity is still in it's infancy. There is sooooo much out there to learn.

History channel has a series called "The Universe" ...actually it's on tonight talking about the Milky Way. (Video is part 1 the sun episode).

They also had a "Mega Disasters" episode on gamma ray bursts, apparently after the big bang they are the most powerful explosions in the universe but last only a few milliseconds to a few minutes.

Coronal mass ejections of our sun...