Happy birthday CallMeWesley!!

[newyawker99]

:party::party::party::party:





:bounce::bounce::bounce::bounce:

[Bunny]

1. Hooray!

:woohoo: Happy Birthday!

[Call Me Wesley]

8. Thank you!

:hi:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

2. Happy birthday!

:toast:

[Call Me Wesley]

9. Thanks!

How goes your writing? :hi:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

28. Going well.

Thanks for asking. :D

[Heidi]

3. It's his birthday??????

Whoa. :P

Happy birthday, Call Me Wesley! :loveya: :*

[Call Me Wesley]

10. You forgot it?

Send me a PM. ;)

:loveya:

[Heidi]

31. Right. I forgot it.

:rofl: :spray:

:loveya:

[bigwillq]

4. Happy Birthday!

:toast:

[Call Me Wesley]

11. Thanks!

And :toast:

[LaurenG]

5. Yay - Happy Birthday!!

:toast: :party:

[Call Me Wesley]

12. Thank you!

I'll do my best. :hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. My dear Call Me Wesley!

Happiest of birthdays to you!

Here's hoping for a fabulous and happy day, and a year full of joy and satisfaction!

:party: :toast: :toast: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :toast: :toast: :party:

[Call Me Wesley]

13. Thank you!

:hug: I'll see what I can do. :hi:

[Guava Jelly]

7. Happy B-Day CMW

:party: :woohoo:

[Call Me Wesley]

14. Thanks! Wanna see the cool card I got?

:hi:

[Guava Jelly]

20. NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

birthday or not you got this one coming

[wildhorses]

15. happy birthday cmw

you are the best:party:

[Call Me Wesley]

16. Thank you!

:hug:

[Shine]

17. May your blessings outnumber your birthday candles, my friend.

:hug: Happy Birthday, CallMeWesley! Have a great day! :loveya: :party:

[Call Me Wesley]

23. Thank you, Shine!

:hug:

[Whoa_Nelly]

18. Happy Happy Joy Joy!

Many happy greetings of the day, fellow Taurean! :hi:

A gift from Hubble



This visible-light picture, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, reveals an intergalactic "pipeline" of material flowing between two battered galaxies that bumped into each other about 100 million years ago.

The pipeline begins in NGC 1410 , crosses over 20,000 light-years of intergalactic space, and wraps around NGC 1409 like a ribbon around a package.

Although astronomers have taken many stunning pictures of galaxies slamming into each other, this image represents the clearest view of how some interacting galaxies dump material onto their companions. These results are being presented today at the 197th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in San Diego, CA.

Astronomers used the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph to confirm that the pipeline is a continuous string of material linking both galaxies.

Scientists believe that the tussle between these compact galaxies somehow created the pipeline, but they're not certain why NGC 1409 was the one to begin gravitationally siphoning material from its partner. And they don't know where the pipeline begins in NGC 1410. More perplexing to astronomers is that NGC 1409 is seemingly unaware that it is gobbling up a steady flow of material. A stream of matter funneling into the galaxy should have fueled a spate of star birth. But astronomers don't see it. They speculate that the gas flowing into NGC 1409 is too hot to gravitationally collapse and form stars.

Astronomers also believe that the pipeline itself may contribute to the star-forming draught. The pipeline, a pencil-thin, 500 light-year-wide string of material, is moving a mere 0.02 solar masses of matter a year.

Astronomers estimate that NGC 1409 has consumed only about a million solar masses of gas and dust, which is not enough material to spawn some of the star-forming regions seen in our Milky Way. The low amount means that there may not be enough material to ignite star birth in NGC 1409, either.

The glancing blow between the galaxies was enough, however, to toss stars deep into space and ignite a rash of star birth in NGC 1410. The arms of NGC 1410, an active, gas-rich spiral galaxy classified as a Seyfert, are awash in blue, the signature color of star-forming regions. The bar of material bisecting the center of NGC 1409 also is a typical byproduct of galaxy collisions.

Astronomers expect more fireworks to come. The galaxies are doomed to continue their game of "bumper cars," hitting each other and moving apart several times until finally merging in another 200 million years. The galaxies' centers are only 23,000 light-years apart, which is slightly less than Earth's distance from the center of the Milky Way. They are bound together by gravity, orbiting each other at 670,000 miles an hour (1 million kilometers an hour). The galaxies reside about 300 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Taurus.

http://www.cosmiclight.com/imagegalleries/gcollisions.htm

[catmandu57]

22. Very interesting

and by the way happy birthday CMW.

[Call Me Wesley]

26. Thanks, catmandu57!

:hi: How are the cats?

[catmandu57]

47. Just fine

Thank you for asking.

[Call Me Wesley]

48. Glad to hear!

:hi:

[Call Me Wesley]

24. Taureans are teh r0xx0r!

Thank you! :hug: And especially for the pic - I really should have gone with astrophysics ...

[DeepBlueC]

19. Happy Birthday, CallMeWesley!

<:toast:>

[Call Me Wesley]

25. Thank you!

:hi:

[bridgit]

21. Happy B-Day, CMW, now what will it be...

paper or plastic :toast: :party:

[Call Me Wesley]

27. Thank you!

:hug: I think I prefer paper. ;)

[Kajsa]

29. Happy, Happy Birthday to you, CallMeWesley!

You are a great person with a big heart.
You always wish everyone a Happy Birthday.
Now it's your turn to be congratulated!

I hope you have a great day and fantastic year!

:party: :toast: :bounce: :toast: :party:

[Call Me Wesley]

35. Thank you, Kajsa!

:hi: I really appreciate it!

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[billyskank]

33. ...................

:*

(which has nothing to do with that picture!)

[billyskank]

34. Well, now I look pretty silly

:D

[billyskank]

32. Happy birthday CMW!

:yourock:

:party:

:D

[Call Me Wesley]

36. Thank you, Billy!

:pals:

[SeattleGirl]

37. Happy Birthday!!!!!!

:toast: :party: :toast:

:pals:

[Call Me Wesley]

38. Thank you!

:hug:

[blueraven95]

39. Happy Birthday!

hope it's a great one!

[Call Me Wesley]

40. Thanks!

It is a great one. :hi:

[AspenRose]

41. It's my birthday too, yeah!

No, really.

Happy Birthday to US! :-)

I think it's Commie Dirty Pinko's birthday too.....

[Call Me Wesley]

44. Really?

Happy Birthday to you and Commie Pinko then! Hope you're having a wonderful day and countless more to come! :toast:

[AspenRose]

66. Thank you

Hope you had a good day. I did :-)

(What am I going to do with two birthday cakes????)

[Hugin]

42. Happy Day CMW!

:party:

[Call Me Wesley]

45. Thank you, Prag!

:hi:

[VenusRising]

43. Happy Birthday, CallMeWesley!!

:hi: :loveya: :hug: :bounce: :party: :toast:

I hope your next trip around the sun is a joyful and wonderful journey.

[Call Me Wesley]

46. Thank you, VenusRising!

I'll try to do my best. :hug:

[terrya]

49. Happy Birthday, CMW!!

I'm so sorry that I didn't see this until now...I can't get on DU at work anymore. :-(

But I saw this now...and I wish you a very happy birthday, my good friend!

:bounce: :party: :toast:

:hug:

[Call Me Wesley]

50. Thank you!

It was a very happy one - almost over. ;)

Thanks again! :hug:

[GenDem]

51. Happy Birthday, CallMeWesley!!!!!!

[Call Me Wesley]

52. Thank you!

:hi: Now I feel like Winnie! :woohoo:

[rug]

53. Hitler killed himself on your birthday.

[Call Me Wesley]

55. I know. I ended WWII.

And, for another fun date, the Vietnam war ended on April 30th, 1975.

I'm busy.

[Broken_Hero]

54. Congrats, :)

:toast:


:D

[Call Me Wesley]

56. Thank you!

:toast:

[Left Is Write]

57. Happy Birthday!

[Call Me Wesley]

58. Thanks!

:hi: It's the ... shhhhhhh ... 41 ...

[lizziegrace]

59. A great day to celebrate!!

Happy Birthday CMW! :hug:

[Call Me Wesley]

60. Thank you!

Although it's over here, now. :(

:hug:

[lizziegrace]

61. It's still your birthday in the states

:)

It's not over until it's tomorrow in California. :hi:

[Call Me Wesley]

63. LOL!

But can I go to bed now? Please?

:rofl:

[lizziegrace]

65. Nope

It's still your birthday! ;)

[EstimatedProphet]

62. Happy birthday bud!

[Call Me Wesley]

64. Thank you, my friend!

Please say hi to the Prophetess! :pals:

[graywarrior]

67. Hey! Have the best, happiest birthday EVER!

:yourock: :loveya:

[RevolutionaryActs]

68. Yay! Happy Birthday CMW!!!

I hope you had a wonderful day!



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