Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site mordor.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!mordor!@S1-A.ARPA,@MIT-MC.ARPA:amon@cmu-ri-fas.arpa From: @S1-A.ARPA,@MIT-MC.ARPA:amon@cmu-ri-fas.arpa Newsgroups: net.space Subject: Bright Galaxies Message-ID: <2497@mordor.UUCP> Date: Wed, 3-Jul-85 14:31:10 EDT Article-I.D.: mordor.2497 Posted: Wed Jul 3 14:31:10 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 16-Jul-85 00:38:04 EDT Sender: daemon@mordor.UUCP Lines: 9 From: Dale.Amon@CMU-RI-FAS Just a random thought for any theoretical astronomers out there... If there are indeed large clouds of Hydrogen in intergalactic space, then the collision of these with a galaxy should start a period of rapid star formation. This could be the explanation for a few galaxies that seem to have recently formed large numbers of stars. Idea triggered by information in "Why Do Galaxies Exist", pp978-980, Science 5/24/85.