An Extra-galactic Halloween
At a pumpkin carving event yesterday, we (a group of people from Yale astro) tried to come up with an appropriate theme for our pumpkin. Naturally, we decided on the Hubble Sequence of galaxy morphology:
Elliptical
Lenticular
Early Spiral
Late Spiral
Irregular
And the artists…
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- October 31, 2010 -
Lovely blog. Happy Halloween 🙂
See? Galaxies are *not* standard candles!
Happy Halloween!! Wonderful
A very clever and instructive improvisation, Kevin. Thanks for sharing a new breed of galaxies with us.
JKHC.
Hahahahahahahaha!! 😀