Thursday, January 24, 2013

Nearby galaxy convicted of star theft | Redux

Nearby galaxy convicted of star theft

cosmos on my desk: dark matter
cosmos on my desk: dark matter by TheAlieness GiselaGiardino²³
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As the Milky Way rises over the horizon at the European Southern Observatory, its companion galaxies also come into view. The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) at far left lies about 160,000 light-years away, while the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC, aESO/Y. Beletsky One of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way is a star thief, astronomers say. New simulations suggest that the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) snatched a stream of stars from its neighbor, the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), when the two galaxies collided 300 million years ago. 'By reconstructing the scene, we found that the LMC and SMC collided violently hundreds of millions of years ago. '- Avi Loeb, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Astronomers uncovered the galactic crime while searching the LMC for evidence of massive compact halo objects, or MACHOs.

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Avi Loeb

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-0.276939"By reconstructing the scene, we found that the LMC and SMC collided violently hundreds of millions of years ago. That's when the LMC stripped out the lensed stars," Loeb added. ...
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Beletsky

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Relevance: 0.221998

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FieldTerminology: Milky Way

Overall Sentiment: 0.0575466

Relevance: 0.546331

Organization: LMC

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Relevance: 0.848574

Organization: Small Magellanic Cloud

Overall Sentiment: 0.0150589

Relevance: 0.478852

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