THE BEAUTY OF DEEP SPACE

I am fascinated by space. I missed my calling, should have been an astronomer, an archaeologist, and, a meteorologist... Ha!

This photo is of clusters colliding in deep space. The blue represents dark matter, which shows how clusters distort light from more distant galaxies.

The red represents very hot gases, a form of normal matter. Theory holds that dark matter and normal matter attracts the same gravitationally, and, so should be distributed evenly.

Individual galaxies are represented by yellowish or white lights. In this particular shot it is unsettling to the astronomers studying this, that there appears to be few visible galaxies present where the dark matter exists. This could be that the galaxies themselves are experiencing gravitational slingshots within themselves, or, it could be that the dark matter is colliding within itself without gravitational pull which has never been witnessed before.

See, how interesting is the study of such? It amazes me that we can pinpoint galaxies, stars, clusters, collisions, gases, matter, stars, and much more, combined with mathematical brilliance we are able to determine many things such as distance, temperatures, gas makeup, velocity, speed, sound, and, other things which are just phenomenally improbable to common man. So fascinating, so interesting, and, certainly so beautiful is the study of space and its inner workings...