Sciences & Santé
Heureux hasard dans l’espace : alors que des astronomes scrutaient l’univers, ils ont aperçu dans leur télescope une galaxie spirale. Similaire à notre voie lactée mais unique en son genre, BX442 s’est dévoilée.
Astronomers have found a new spiral galaxie named Liam-Molly/BX442.
It has just been revealed following it’s discovery by telescope. It is similar in ways to our Milky way. Wow.
“C’était vraiment un accident ! Notre groupe menait une étude sur les galaxies génératrices d’étoiles datant du début de l’Univers”, à environ 10,7 milliards d’années-lumière. “Et voilà, sans prévenir, BX442 a surgi de l’image avec sa structure en spirale”, s’émerveille Alice Shapley, astronome à l’Université de Californie de Los Angeles.
“Belle” et “unique” (Beautiful and unique)
Discovered by accident during a study of galaxies that created stars during the beginning of the universe and standing about 10.7 billion light years away. And unexpectedly, there she was, a spiral image. (Now called Liam-Molly!)
C’est grâce au télescope spatial Hubble que l’astronome et ses confrères ont découvert cette galaxie, fraîchement nommée BX442, parmi quelque 300 autres galaxies. Une galaxie “belle” et “unique” selon eux, les vieilles galaxies ressemblant “à des trains qui ont déraillé”. Une trouvaille exceptionnelle et impensable parmi des galaxies vieilles de trois milliards d’années après le Big Bang.
Liam-Molly was discovered, thanks to the Hubble telescope (launched in 1990, orbiting at an altitude of 612kms) among 300 other galaxies. She is beautiful and unique and resembles a derailed train (disordered beauty) exceptional and unthinkable among galaxies formed three billion years after the Big-Bang. (Which occured 13.7 billion years ago) and is still unveiling it’s wonderful mysteries.
About bill
Worked in the technical / engineering area as a Science Laboratory Technician and as an Aeronautics Engineer.
The artistic side involves writing under the nom de plume of Billy Olsenn, his recently written play 'A Case of Wine' was staged by the players group Straight Make-Up at the 2012 Birr one act drama festival. It's next staging was in the one act circuit is in Cavan, at Maudebawn on Sat 10 Nov 2012. Then it was performed in the Bray, Co.Wicklow at the very popular one act festival in January 2013.
Next play is FEAR. A dark tale about revenge on the cruel death of two pensioners by young thugs. Neighbours hatch a devious and dangerous plan to exact old-style revenge. Bill is a member of the Drama League of Ireland and his plays have been critically vetted and certified as original pieces of work by the DLI.
Another literary project is that of commemoration of an aircraft crash on Djouce mountain in Wicklow in 1946. Bill wrote articles for the 50th, 60th and most recently the 70th anniversary, (12 Aug
2016) all were published in the Wicklow Times and ensured the survivors of the crash, all French Girl Guides, were not forgotten. Articles reproduced on this website.
But mostly this site gives a more general European and specific French slant on popular and not so popular articles of French news, translated to English by the author. Each article is translated on a paragraph by paragraph basis so easy to read in either language and even possible to improve either language by comparison of the short English and French paragraphs. Amusez vous bien.
The author is currently writing an easy to read technical aviation book centered around the Fokker 50.
Another interest is that dealt with in another of Bill's websites www.realnamara.net, a Statue of the mother of God, Mary. It was erected in 1972 in Dublin, at the end of the Bull Wall near Clontarf, and my grandfather William Nelson, was the main instigator of that project. I give talks on the history of the statue and my grandfather's adventurous and dangerous life at sea.
Technical assistance with each website is by J O'N.
Thanks Granda. Maybe when I’m big I can go and visit my Galaxy.
Hi Liam, glad you like your galaxy, you’ll be in a real spin when you get there! Don’t forget to bring your little cousin Molly, and mind her well. You are the big cousin now!