where do I post ideas for a new TPOD ???

[BABOafrica]

I'm a regular reader of TPOD.

From time to time I see a really interesting topic from some other astronomy website and would like to suggest the topic for TPOD.

I'm not sure how to go about it.

Let me give you two examples:

EXAMPLE ONE: I was looking through some NASA stuff -- APOD -- and bumped into their description of the jets coming from NGC 1097. Seemed like the classic NASA commentary for which TPOD would want to offer a different perspective.

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap131114.html

The NASA commentary reads:

>>Enigmatic spiral galaxy NGC 1097 shines in southern skies, about 45 million light-years away in the chemical constellation Fornax. Its blue spiral arms are mottled with pinkish star forming regions in this colorful galaxy portrait. They seem to have wrapped around a small companion galaxy below and left of center, about 40,000 light-years from the spiral's luminous core. That's not NGC 1097's most peculiar feature, though. The very deep exposure hints of faint, mysterious jets, most easily seen to extend well beyond the bluish arms toward the lower right. In fact, four faint jets are ultimately recognized in optical images of NGC 1097. The jets trace an X centered on the galaxy's nucleus, but probably don't originate there. Instead, they could be fossil star streams, trails left over from the capture and disruption of a much smaller galaxy in the large spiral's ancient past. A Seyfert galaxy, NGC 1097's nucleus also harbors a supermassive black hole.<<


EXAMPLE TWO: I was reading through a description of Toomre's famous computer simulation of colliding galaxies and discovered that his 1970s work did not include any calculation for "dark matter". Someone tried to factor in the "dark matter" to the simulation and the result was no longer satisfactory -- it did not seem to be a working model for happens to galaxies that are close enough to each other to distort the shapes of the two galaxies.

Anyway, maybe nobody at Thunderbolts is particularly interested in this kind of suggestion. But if such suggestions are helpful, let me know.

[Sparky]

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