The Astrology of Space - Matrix Software

The Astrology of Space
However, our planet would be ripped out of its orbit
every few hundred million years by close encounters
with passing stars.
Vast clouds of obscuring dust prevent us from having
a very spectacular view each night of the GC, which is
ablaze with light. Most of our information concerning
the GC has been obtained through the non-optical
regions of the electromagnetic spectrum, such as the
radio, infrared, and x-ray "windows." While light
cannot penetrate the dust clouds, the radio and
infrared waves, in effect, flow around the dust
particles and on to reach us. The very energetic
gamma and x-rays pass right through the intervening
dust particles!
There appears to be an energetic flow of matter out
from the core, and astronomers have located a ring of
expanding particles at about 300 parsecs from the GC
that is moving at 100 km/s. Two expanding arms of
hydrogen (on either side of GC) at about 3000
parsecs have been found, one moving toward us at a
velocity of 50km/s and the other away from us at
about 135 km/s. There is some speculation that the
nucleus of our galaxy may periodically explode (see
Seyfert Galaxies) or that mass may spontaneously
appear in the nucleus through some process that is
beyond our comprehension at this point in time.
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