Hubble Photographs FSM

[luchog]

According to this article in The Register, the Hubble telescope brings us the first ever actual photos of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Scientists unravel galactic spaghetti monster

His Noodly Appendages are there for the universe to see.

On a more serious note, it's a very interesting phenomenon, and quite a spectacular image:

Scientists believe they have deduced what sustains the noodly appendages of a galactic "spaghetti monster" - actually Galaxy NGC 1275 in Perseus - which displays "a mammoth network of spaghetti-like gas filaments around a black hole", as New Scientist puts it.

NS explains: "As the black hole sucks in gas from its surroundings, it powers jets of matter that produce bubbles of energetic particles in the surrounding cluster gas. As these bubbles grow and rise, cooled gas from NGC 1275's core gets drawn into long tendrils in their wake, like the strings that trail behind balloons."

Fair enough, although until now no one had been able to work out why these delicate filaments weren't destroyed by the immense magnetic power of the galaxy. Cue a close perusal of Hubble snaps of NCG 1275 by Andrew Fabian and colleagues at Cambridge University.

 

[dogjones]

Black hole? Hmmph! Stuff and nonsense... sheer bullypup! Everyone knows such things are merely gnomes invented by big bang luddites. No, what we have here is a vast cosmic crockpot of plasma bolognaise.

 

[shadron]

Yeah - one can see how, with a picture of that inked on a perfectly polished surface of crystalline quartz, framed with Oak-from-the-Ark, one could sort of translate it into a pile of spaghetti and meatballs, couldn't one? And from there, the universe...

No wonder we have Him/Her in our pantheon.

 

[fuelair]

According to this article in The Register, the Hubble telescope brings us the first ever actual photos of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Scientists unravel galactic spaghetti monster

His Noodly Appendages are there for the universe to see.

On a more serious note, it's a very interesting phenomenon, and quite a spectacular image:

So now we have the proof we need to destroy all the false religions!!!!!!!

 

[Molinaro]

Here is a link to the full res original pic.

I love the details.

 

[casebro]

I sure hope the astronomers were outfitted in full pirate regalia, for the sake of their everlasting souls.