Space Pearls

venus (Lydia) · #1 05-05-2006, 05:37 PM

An interesting story about how galaxies align into a necklace-like phenomena. I personally wouldn't mind a Martian blue-berry pearl necklace myself.......

http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=a&id=4215

[1ponders] (Paul) · #2 06-05-2006, 08:27 AM

Hi Venus, if you want some more details and don't mind getting down into the maths you will find the drafte version from the discovering scientists here. DETECTION OF THE EFFECT OF COSMOLOGICAL LARGE–SCALE STRUCTURE ON THE
ORIENTATION OF GALAXIES

Heavy read though

venus (Lydia) · #3 06-05-2006, 09:48 AM

Oh brother, the laws of stable matter sure are complicated

[1ponders] (Paul) · #4 06-05-2006, 10:06 AM

I ran my eyes over it quickly and thought "yep, I believe you "