Andromeda, Beauty and the Beast: Spitzer's Hidden Universe

In Greek Mythology, the Princess Andromeda was sacrificed to appease a sea monster's appetite. But astronomers are learning that the Andromeda Galaxy is less the spiral beauty and more the voracious beast.

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• Spitzer
• Space
• Telescope
• galaxy
• andromeda

[esjaycago]

i feel like eating pizza now!

[zeronotsukai12345]

i am starving for pizza...!!

[ivanlagrossemoule]

@swampzoid Just google the ultra deep field image. I know your comment is old but if you look closely at the picture you will have your answer.

[leahcimrac]

I'm supposed to be studing and all I got out of this film is an earge to eat a sausage pizza. Damn.

[crisdanelise123]

@qhpink The ASTEROID BELT is between Mars and Jupiter!The KUIPER BELT is BEYOND PLUTO!!!!!

[MrBeskem]

galxy is cool but i want that piza

[swampzoid]

do we see all galaxies edgewise or are some tilted or turned where we see them as a whole disc?

i'm a singer- not a scientist - that's why my question my be extremely simple to some of you.

[cesarcanela]

theres more than a trillion stars

[VILeonidasV]

so we have 5 billion years to find a new planet.

damn think we got enough time? Wonder what we will look like that far into the future....

[cuplex]

aye, and you must never forget, that the population on earth is constantly accelerating, which, in essense is a good thing, more mind's = more invention's = less food for everybody = but were gona get of this world faster than we thing, it's all accelerating, what we've done in the last 100 year's is astounding, but thing of how many people will be on earth (over 12 billion at this rate) in 100 year's, and think about the inventions that will be made, were to spend little more time on this rock

[libraryquiet]

Hey ghpink Yeah I'm looking forward to the day when we go back to the moon. I doubt if the moon has polar caps. There's not enough of an atmosphere to provide such regular condensation. The Kuiper Belt you speak of is beyond the orbit of Pluto, it harbors many of the comets, ice bodies, that sometimes get nudged toward the sun. Pluto might belong to this belt. But whether it's the moon or an asteroid, it's still a huge undertaking for man considering cost and resources. I'll keep hoping.

[ghpink]

I'm not talking about beyond our solar system at all. That's way too far in to the future

In the next few decades after we go to the moon and create a base, you may change your mind.

The moon is an incredible wealth of resources, while most people assume its a barren wasteland. Possibly has polar caps. Water deposits have been found in the soil

There is also something called the Kuiper belt.

Its between Mars & Jupiter. Its a large asteroid belt there just full of resources and comets.

[libraryquiet]

Hey ghpink Yeah I agree there are all kinds of resources in the universe but we need resources from the Earth to get to them. And that my friend is the problem. It's good your positive, I'm realistic. I wish there was a better scenerio for the future, I really do. When you talk about space, are you talking about beyond our solar system, forget it man, it's not going to happen! You fantasize I realize. There goes another bubble. pop! Bye.

[ghpink]

Superstring theory shows we will never need to break the speed of light. Just bend space and time follows.

[ghpink]

Its okay bubble burster! Ever hear of a thing called space? We were nomads once before and we will be nomads in space, in the near future. There are plenty of resources in the universe, if you didn't notice.

I give human's more credit then you do. We have ingenuity far above any species on this planet. I am also more positive than you are, because I believe we will have a few road bumps here and there, but we are directly heading towards colonizing space. Far sooner then most think.

[libraryquiet]

Hey ghpink Hate to bust your bubble but in a hundred years the human race is going to be in sad shape. We'll run out of natural resources by then. No more metals, oil, wood and drinking water. The main concern in that time will be food!

[ananiasacts]

You're right. By then 2 + 2 will be equal to like 50 or something!

[foketesz]

or maybe we will...

[agubaia]

so, maybe there's not such a Black hole in the middle of Andromeda, could be the reason of that shape.

[ghpink]

Forget 1000 years. Look what has happened since 1900 in 100 years! The birth of the car, the radio, the airplane, the television, the computer and everything in between.

In 100 years the advancements human kind will make, will be proportional to the last 100 years and just as astounding.

You may not miss it either. Working in stem cell research, cryogenics and genetics, some believe we will expand the human life span and soon.

Its always been our wish to find the fountain of youth. We will

[pouselousi]

Yeah I think that 2 ! I wish I was born in the year 10.000 or something.. But if people break the speed of light, strange things will happen, beceause they will be followed forever by themselves....

[subReme]

I always think and imagine what kind of technology we'll have in a thousand years from now, or even in 1 million years, and even in 1 billion years if human ever make by then. We'll break the speed of light for sure by then...and all of the shit you're reading or learning now is prolly 100% false then. Theories will change, and so does everything in this world. Future is more advance and is just wild. One thing we have to regret is we won't live long enough to witness all that. =(

[jamezzter14]

I like pizza but... i really don't like your choice of toppings -_-

[clayzee001]

isnt the collision supposed to happen earlier than that but in between 2 billion years and 5 billion years

[wesilation98]

???

[nutier]

It's very interesting to understand Andromeda, the nighbour  galaxy that is larger than ours . It's possible to get more habitable exoplanets as our earth that you cannot discover with your astronomical instruments .Thank you for sharing , I have added as my favorite .

nutier

[R0binv]

Not everything gets disproven. I mean, evolution is a keeper. And so are general relativity and quantum mechanics.