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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-11 06:20 PM
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NGC 3521
is today's APOD:



Go here for wallpaper size: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod
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jimlup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-11 06:57 PM
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1. That's a nice one!
Probably similar to our own.
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-11 07:06 PM
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3. Maybe
I believe the latest thinking is that the Milky Way is a barred spiral like UGC12158:
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jimlup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-11 08:33 PM
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6. How'd you get that picture of the Milky Way ?
Come on fess up!

Yeah, ok, it's an old laboratory joke. Sorry, couldn't help myself. I sometimes pull it on my high school students (I'm a HS physics teacher). The sad thing is that many of them don't realize that it is a joke. But I guess I didn't know anything either at 15...
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lob1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-11 07:00 PM
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2. NCG 3521 is rotating counter-clockwise.
Does that mean it's in the southern hemisphere of the universe?
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HysteryDiagnosis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-11 07:09 PM
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4. It means the plasma currents flowing through it is going from our side to the
other... (away from us)
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FiveGoodMen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-13-11 07:13 PM
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5. Perhaps more importantly: Where will it go once it's down the drain?
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