M74 - A HALF SMASHED SPIRAL GALAXY       Yipe! verrry looong load. Please waittttttt

YOU HAVE TO SEE IT IN THE RIGHT WAY TO BELIEVE IT

M74, a
large NOAO
image, very bright
object against pitch black
midnight sky background with faint
traces surrounding the main bright object.
When enhanced, the faint traces leap to life as
a whopping big expansion of the galaxy, with
even more faint traces exposed far out from
the original central bright object

NOT SO SMALL - NOT SO DAINTY

THE SNUB

Here is
a snub that really
sticks up, picture a jagged
shard of glacial ice upthrusting
taller than Mt. Everest. Something
major has impacted this area, from
the outside, not likely some sing
hurtled out from the black
hole core unless there
are black hole
forces we
haven't
toiled
yet in a
point called
theory. Otherwise, snubs
occur here and there amongst galaxies, and
seem to be the signature of a post collision syndrom

STATUS REPORT

Monumentally thick
arms tower over a small hole,
ah, er, rather core deep set
in a well of its own black
hole gravity making

A RUBIC CUBE - floats lazily along in the big sweep

A rubic cube
floating along in a
valley between major arms may
be an artifact of image exposure, too
hot equals too bright, it may be chance
combination of nearby massive cometary
globs of star mass their closeness
resembling rather startingly
a rubic cube

INTRUDER ALERT

Intruder
tracks are
seen. Narrow, and
gradually converging, parallel
tracks race straight on down two side by
side vertical ski slopes, one in dots, missing the core.
These are telltales that objects small but energetic have entered
the galaxy and traversed rapidly over the surface, to disappear in
thick arm matter. The point of entry is always the widest 'V', the
narrowest converge is the present point in time. Across the
bottom, other narrow parallel tracks at a slight slant
also show where something small, energetic,
and fast, has travelled, by slashing
a 'signal' of its passing, the
signal a trench of roil.
Some problem with
imaging also
seems at
hand
in the
bottom tracks,
the astronomers not
sure of what they were dealing
with may have let go of rigorous patching here

BANG

Streaks
of an explosion
show where something
involved in the 'snub' has
impacted with power into a limb.
Across the top, in a horizontal
vapor trail, something has
crossed the nearby
vacinity
exciting extra
light like particles
in a hydrogen bubble chamber

BIG WIND

Its as
if a big wind
has blown all of the
globs gobs and clusters from
one side of the galaxy entirely
out the other side in a spray









Notice
the swirls
curls and spiral
permeating the deep
space backdrop. Whatever
it is that is out there, its busy. A
better deep space photograph
is definately called for

POSSIBLE EXPLANATION - Inspector Luminous begins

It is
rummored in
the press, reasonably,
that stars in galaxies are so
far apart there is no chance for a head
on collision between stars, stars are pin point
sources with vast distances between, two marbles at
either end of a football field hardly scale their
sizes or distance apart. Gas, dust, molecules,
and rubble on the other hand can impact
and cause change. Suppose a
galaxy has already
met another
and is
stripped
naked, something
like the fiercely energetic
small galaxy towing near the edge of
the giant Whirlpool galaxy. A core without arms
flying around at high velocity has a lot of momentum, colliding
in a different dynamics than when spiral galaxies dance on
through each other, mainly, the basic spiral formation
stays intact but parts are churned to chaos, when
naked cores make a visit at significant velocity

This is a possible
explanation for the spew
in M74. There are two main arms,
the left arm is normal, the right totally
wrecked, a real catastrophe, the whole thing jambed
up, twisted, jagged, with star-forming fronts at crazy angles.
Hmmmmm. A logical explanation comes to mind. Suppose something
booo and massive did strike the galaxy, coming in from the
right, passing at first through the outer arm clearing
out matter and thinning it, impacting into the
dense inner arm causing the 'snub', the
rubble from the impact carrying
on around the galaxy and
is hurtling out the
other side at
high velocity
causing the
'spew' Inspector
Luminous attempts
to introduce the idea to a
room full of astronomers at an international
conference, the laughter is so loud the chairs are vibrating

Ho
but then
just out, hot off
the press, a new image, this
one by Gemini in Hawaii, hailed as a
perfect spiral, well, it isn't, but then who
cares. Inspector Luminous hunches the loudest vibrating
chair forward toward the screen and gets to work. Enhancement
reveals fast falloff around the edges to black but within
where the light was allowed to shine quite a
bit of new exposure









A closer
look at a jagged
left edge reveals nothing
of startling note. What is revealed
is substantial quantities of dim media mass

Original at left









Very
frothy
yasss. Big hit
on the left side by
chunk eating collider. But
is it still there. Yassss hmmmmm
noooo yassss. Duty done off turns the light

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