MILKY WAY GALAXY CANNIBALIZES SAGITTARIUS

Milky Way Galaxy Cannibalizes Sagittarius

Yahoo! News
Wednesday, September 24, 2003 

Washington (Reuters) - Our Milky Way galaxy is gobbling
up its galactic neighbor, Sagittarius, and on Wednesday,
scientists offered documentary proof of this continuing
cosmic cannibalism. 

[Caption]  Wed Sep 24, 3:29 PM ET 
Our Milky Way galaxy (center/blue) is gobbling up its
galactic neighbor, Sagittarius, (red trail, from left to
right) and on September 24, 2003, scientists offered
documentary proof of this continuing cosmic cannibalism.
On its way to oblivion, the dwarf Sagittarius -- which is
about 10,000 times the mass of the Milky Way -- is
getting stretched, torn apart and ultimately eaten,
scientists at the University of Virginia and the
University of Massachusetts reported. REUTERS/Handout  

View picture here: 
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030924/170/5dhma.html

Astronomers have mapped the Sagittarius galaxy to show in
detail how its debris wrap around and pass through the
Milky Way, which contains Earth. 

On its way to oblivion, the dwarf Sagittarius -- which is
about 10,000 times the mass of the Milky Way -- is
getting stretched, torn apart and ultimately eaten,
scientists at the University of Virginia and the
University of Massachusetts reported. 

"It's clear who's the bully in the interaction," Steven
Majewski of the University of Virginia, lead author of
the report, said in a statement. 

The study will be published in the Dec. 20 issue of the
Astrophysical Journal. 

The act of cannibalism had been obscured by stars and
cosmic dust, but was revealed when astronomers looked for
infrared radiation coming from stars known as M giants,
which are common in Sagittarius but rare in the outer
reaches of the Milky Way. 

By focusing on these stars, the scientists said they were
able to capture the totality of the Milky Way's meal, in
a vision that makes it appear that our galaxy is slurping
the stars of Sagittarius as if they were a stellar strand
of spaghetti. 

Before this work, astronomers had detected only a few
scattered pieces of the disrupted Sagittarius dwarf. Even
the existence of Sagittarius was unknown until the heart
of our nearest satellite galaxy was discovered in 1994. 

Source - http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030924/170/5dhma.html

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The ultimate in white male Western hegemony. Clearly this
abuse of our neighbors cannot be allowed to continue.
Send in the United Nations peace keepers, right now!
  /sarcasm

Posted on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 by anymouse

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> which is about 10,000 times the mass of the Milky Way

This is an obvious typo. It must be 1/10,000th the mass, 
or else it would be eating us.

Posted on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 by GhostofWCooper 

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Can someone please explain to me how in the world we can 
take pictures of our galaxy with us in it and know that 
we are a part of it?

Posted on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 by Aggie Mama 

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> Our Milky Way galaxy is gobbling up its galactic 
> neighbor,

Turn-about is fair play. I have a galactic neighbor who 
is up to 450 lbs from gobbling Milky Ways.

Posted on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 by TruthShallSetYouFree

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Does that mean that everybody born under the sign of the 
Sagittarius will "disappear".... Or be gobbled up by a 
giant milky way bar?
 ( 8 > 0>

Posted on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 by Lion in Winter

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> the dwarf Sagittarius -- which is about 10,000 times 
> the mass of the Milky Way

Should be 1/10,000th

SO9

Posted on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 by Servant of the 9

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I don't know. But Almond Joying this thread immensely. It 
is Mounds of fun.

Posted on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 by TruthShallSetYouFree 

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That's the new Mobile Fox MiniCam, launched by the 
Chinese several years ago. The pics are beamed back from 
the camera in Andromeda.

Posted on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 by jammer 

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I caught that one too. Doesn't Rueter have any editors to 
catch this stuff??

Posted on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 by Flying Circus

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I snickered when I read your post! hahaha

Posted on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 by Lion in Winter 

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There's a mirror hanging on Andromeda!

Posted on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 by vger 

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No typo, it is about 10,000 times the mass of the Milky Way. 
It's like the mouse eating the boa constrictor, our tiny Milky Way 
is nibbling away at the huge, but diffuse, Sagittarius galaxy.

Posted on Wednesday, September 24, 2003 by Rudder 

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