High-Speed Crash Makes Hot, 'Sterile' Galaxies


	High-Speed Crash Makes Hot, 'Sterile' Galaxies

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10-9-2008 3:37 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/64f01cde-6d98-4055-999f-db914fae270b/C38C6132-A70F-4617-9547-61560A89089D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/10/09/galaxy-virgo-cluster.html" href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/10/09/galaxy-virgo-cluster.html" style="font-size: 11px;">dsc.discovery.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/10/09/galaxy-virgo-cluster.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/dsc.discovery.com/img/D3232816-FFA2-42A8-8E78-D0FBE30F8032" alt="Telling Tendrils" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/10/09/galaxy-virgo-cluster.html"><P><STRONG>Oct. 9, 2008</STRONG> -- A new wider view of two very well-known galaxies has revealed a big surprise: They are connected by faint, starless filaments of hydrogen gas which trace back to a very high-speed <A target="_blank" href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/04/24/galaxy-collision-hubble.html">intergalactic collision</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/10/09/galaxy-virgo-cluster.html"><P>The <A target="_blank" href="http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/08/08/spitzer_spa.html?category=space">smash-up between galaxies</A> M86 and NGC4438 not been suspected before, and may explain why M86, which is visible to the naked eye, is unable to give birth to <A target="_blank" href="http://science.howstuffworks.com/star.htm">new stars</A>.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C38C6132-A70F-4617-9547-61560A89089D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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