From: louisnews Newstrom (louisnews@comcast.net)
Date: Sun Sep 08 2002 - 06:51:12 MDT
From: "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury@aeiveos.com>
> The Hubble recently took a picture of Hoag's Object:
>
> Its pretty unusual to see young massive stars on the
> outskirts of a galaxy 120,000 years across and most
> of the rest of the stars concentrated in the center.
>
> You be the judge.
I judge "not". See http://heritage.stsci.edu/2002/21/supplemental.html.
It is NOT unusual to see galaxies laid out in this manner. In fact, the
picture of Hoag's Object you gave us has a second such galaxy.
The only unusual part about Hoag's Object is that the cause of this
formation is not known. Other galaxies laid out in this manner can be
explained by nearby phenomenon.
With many examples of this kind of galaxy, seeing one with no visible
cause does not make me leap to the conclusion of engineering.
--- Louis Newstrom louisnews@comcast.net
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