NASA Studying Strange, Star-Creating Mass-Could this be the deep space equivalent of God?
Read Time:1 Minute, 12 Second
Is there really a God? Well certainly not in the religious sense, what with big beard, living in the sky, and the rest of that nonsense, but could there be a “creation” mechanism? If so, could this latest discovery be it? Are there more than one of these “star makers?” Are there dozens, or even hundreds or thousands? If there were lots of them is it reasonable to believe that this is only the first one we have seen? Read this interesting story:
The Hubble Telescope has turned its gaze to a mysterious glowing green blob that’s creating stars where stars shouldn’t normally form. Dubbed Hanny’s Voorwerp, after the Dutch elementary school teacher who first discovered it in 2007, the blob is a swirling mass of hydrogen gas, caused by a close encounter from two galaxies, astronomers tell the AP. It’s illuminated by a quasar lodged within one of those galaxies.
Parts of the Voorwerp are collapsing in on itself, creating enough pressure to create new stars far from any normal galaxy. These are “very lonely newborn stars … in the middle of nowhere,” says one astronomer. The blob was discovered by then-24-year-old Hanny van Arkel, during the Galaxy Zoo project, which let laypeople catalog new objects from star photos. At the time, “it actually looked like a blue smudge,” she says. “Now it looks like a dancing frog in the sky.”
Happy
0 %
Sad
0 %
Excited
0 %
Sleepy
0 %
Angry
0 %
Surprise
0 %
0
0
I encourage folks to look up Galaxy Zoo. It’s set up so people can assist in online classification of various types of galaxies, or, in some projects, look for anomalous areas of our moon’s landscape. The human eye can discern anomalies better than computer programs can. Be a part of science! One of these projects was how Hanny found her Voorwerp. Be the first kid on your block to find your own Voorwerp! You’ll have bragging rights in any bar in the world forever, or until 12/20/2012 or the Rapture-whichever comes first.
Poop Benny says god did ‘er all. Must be true.
Could this “mass” be the deep space equivalent of “God?” After all it is “creating” stars. Interesting question and one that should be discussed. I certainly don’t accept the compassionate, vengeful, wrathful, know all, prayer answering, everywhere, everywhere concept of the Christian God, but this…..Hmmmmm…..