Monday, January 7, 2013

Back to the drawing board! Scientists toss out atheistic models for galaxy formation after discovering "structure" rather than random formations


Thirteen dwarf galaxies are playing a cosmic-scale game of Ring Around Andromeda, forming an enormous structure astronomers have never seen before and are hard-pressed to explain with current theories of how galaxies form and evolve.


According to current theories, the small galaxies, which contain as many as a few tens of billions of stars each, should be randomly arranged around the Andromeda galaxy.


Instead, they orbit Andromeda within a plane more than 1 million light-years across and about 30,000 light-years thick. For comparison, the latest estimates of Andromeda's girth put its diameter at more than 220,000 light-years.

Read more http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2013/0104/What-s-going-on-around-Andromeda-Curious-structure-puzzles-scientists


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