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Powerful Galaxies Found in Infrared

Posted by Zonk on from the larger-galaxies-could-mean-billions-of-denny's dept.

demachina writes "NASA's Spitzer Infrared space telescope has discovered 'a mysterious population of distant and enormously powerful galaxies radiating in the infrared spectrum with many hundreds of times more power than our Milky Way galaxy.' They are 80% of the way back to the big bang. They found them by comparing a visible and infrared scan of the sky and looking at the places where there was a big infrared signature and no visible one. They are shrouded in dust."

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  1. Other life forms are out there... by hhlost · · Score: 4, Funny

    and if they're smart, they're hiding from us. fp?

    1. Re:Other life forms are out there... by Cylix · · Score: 2, Funny

      Oh Shit, Spaceballs... there goes the planet.

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  2. so? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    When you say "enourmously powerful" what exactly are we talking here? like, weapons? big spaceships? that sort of thing?

  3. They're watching by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    in the constellation Bootes the Herdsman, the IRS team selected and observed 31 that are quite bright in the infrared but invisible in the NOAO survey.

    So you really can't hide from the IRS :(

  4. We must rename the milky way by Timesprout · · Score: 3, Funny

    If these are really powerful galaxies then they will think the milky way is a girly sounding name and beat it up. I propose 'the hard as coffin nails' galaxy be adopted.

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  5. Large Blobs of Heat? by firew0lfz · · Score: 2, Funny

    So wait a minute - it says it's found these galaxies in the infared spectrum...

    So what exactly constitutes a galaxy now? I thought a galaxy had to be a collection of stars; which omit visible light?

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    1. Re:Large Blobs of Heat? by AndroidCat · · Score: 3, Funny
      I thought a galaxy had to be a collection of stars; which omit visible light?

      So? These ones are omitting visible light. :)

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  6. Powerful? by Dante+Shamest · · Score: 2, Funny
    has discovered 'a mysterious population of distant and enormously powerful galaxies radiating in the infrared spectrum

    You don't know the meaning of power till you've met my wife.

    Yes, this is a troll.
  7. everyone knows by Prince+Vegeta+SSJ4 · · Score: 2, Funny

    red is more powerful. Red Lightsaber, red cobra lasers, the eye of thundera (sp?), Dark Phoenix, Red Hat (vs windows blue). Ketchup tastes better than mustard. sheesh, of course there will be powerful galaxies inferred from red.

  8. Real Ultimate Power by Ohreally_factor · · Score: 2, Funny

    1. Galaxies are mammals.

    2. Galaxies fight ALL the time.

    3. The purpose of the Galaxy is to flip out and kill people.

    Check out this site all about galaxies, REAL GALAXIES. This site is awesome.I can't stop thinking about Galaxies. These guys are cool; and by cool, I mean totally sweet.

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  9. This story is not what you think... by TimeTraveler1884 · · Score: 2, Funny
    NASA Scientist:
    "Apparently, instead of installing the correct instruments in the Spitzer Infrared space telescope, we accidentally installed a universal TV remote control. Anyone would have mistaken this infrared source as a powerful infrared galaxy as we did. Coincidently this is our second instrumentation mistake this week.

    However, one of our mission objects was successful. As we now have the capability to force everyone on Earth to watch the NASA TV channel."

  10. Reparsed post title. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Shouldn't the title of this post be "Ancient Galaxies found with infrared sensors", or something? "Powerful Galaxies found in infrared" sounds like we should be welcoming our Infrared Alien Overlords.

  11. mysterious population! by radarsat1 · · Score: 2, Funny
    my browser happened to render the story so that the first line read

    demachina writes "NASA's Spitzer Infrared space telescope has discovered 'a mysterious population

    .. i almost pissed myself...