Re: Edge of the Galaxy

[Medievalbk]

In a message dated 12/19/2003 5:38:09 AM US Mountain Standard Time, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> I Thought Of Using "The Great Barrier" As A Subject Line Maru
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>  - Ronn!  :)
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Some people would then say you were on a reefer.

Vilyehm Teighlore
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Re: Edge of the Galaxy

[Ronn!Blankenship]

At 06:08 AM 12/19/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If we travel through this "extra cosmic arm in the Milky Way that they
believe wraps around the
outskirts of the vast galaxy like a thick gas border" will we become
superhuman like Gary Lockwood and Sally Kellerman in "Where No Man Has 
Gone Before"?


And just as dead . . .

;-P



I Thought Of Using "The Great Barrier" As A Subject Line Maru



- Ronn!  :)

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Re: Edge of the Galaxy

[TomFODW]

If we travel through this "extra cosmic arm in the Milky Way that they 
believe wraps around the
outskirts of the vast galaxy like a thick gas border" will we become 
superhuman like Gary Lockwood and Sally Kellerman in "Where No Man Has Gone Before"? 
Kewel!

;)



Tom Beck

www.mercerjewishsingles.org

"I always knew I'd see the first man on the Moon. I never dreamed I'd see the 
last." - Dr Jerry Pournelle
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Edge of the Galaxy

[Ronn!Blankenship]

New arm of Milky Way galaxy discovered

CANBERRA, Australia (Reuters) --Australian astronomers have discovered an 
extra cosmic arm in the Milky Way that they believe wraps around the 
outskirts of the vast galaxy like a thick gas border.

Astronomers at scientific research group, the Commonwealth Scientific and 
Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), hope the find will help paint a 
better picture of the Milky Way galaxy, which is home to Earth.

CSIRO scientist Naomi McClure-Griffiths said the gas border, which is 6,500 
light years thick, showed the Milky Way had a structure similar to those of 
most other galaxies, which have gassy spiral arms extending beyond the more 
central stellar spiral arms.

Astronomers believe the Milky Way has about four arms made up of hydrogen 
gas, dust and stars spiraling out from its center. McClure-Griffiths said 
the newly discovered gas border is about 60,000 light years from the center 
of the Milky Way.

A light year is the distance that light travels in a year, which is about 
six trillion miles (10 trillion km).

"We have known there was gas out there but we haven't known that there was 
a structure out there. We thought there was just a smooth drop-off, that 
the galaxy just sort of slid away," McClure-Griffiths told Reuters.

"It is at the furthest reaches of the galaxy and is the last thing you see 
before the galaxy disappears."

McClure-Griffiths and a small team of scientists were investigating the 
hydrogen gas in the disc of the Milky Way when they stumbled across the 
extra arm, which they believe could connect up with one of the galaxy's 
central stellar arms.

The finding has been submitted for publication to the Astrophysical Journal 
of the American Astronomical Society, she added.

Copyright 2003 Reuters.

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