Milky Way Hit by Gas
This is just one enormous bathroom joke waiting to happen.
At the 211th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Austin, Texas, it was reported that an enormous cloud of hydrogen gas is heading directly for us here in the Milky Way galaxy traveling at more than 150 miles per second. When it does impact our little spiral galaxy home, it is expected to set off a huge burst of star formation.
All I have to say is that the Milky Way is going to need one cosmic sized dosage of Lactaid! Get it? Lactose intolerance, milky candy bars, and enormous clouds of gas? Anyway, I belabor the point.
Toilet humor aside, this should be a very cool cosmic event. While scientists have theorized that other star clusters have formed in this way, it has never actually been directly observed. Now I’m just worried that this giant mass of astronomical flatulence (or Smith’s cloud) is going to hit us causing our own Sun to supernova!
Fortunately (and I imagine unfortunately for contemporary astronomers) it will take several million years for the effects of this event to be observable and even then, it won’t have reached Earth. Phew!
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