Complexity Digest 2005.45 - 16.01

05/11/10

Two Most Recent Web Cast + Podcast :

Intl. Waste Treatment Conference

Taipei, Taiwan, 05/10/30
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[b][green]Illuminating the Shadow of the Future

Ann Arbor, Mi 05/09/23-25
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Intergalactic Attraction Creates Bumper Star Crop, New Scientist Bookmark and Share

Excerpts: Hundreds of new stars are igniting in the wake of intense gravitational interactions between four galaxies, new observations reveal.

The four galaxies - called Robert's Quartet - lie about 160 million light years from Earth in the southern constellation Phoenix. They are crowded into a space just 150,000 light years across - only 1.5 times the width of our galaxy, the Milky Way.

That proximity makes them one of the best known examples of a compact group of galaxies, whose members gravitationally disturb each other.