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Galaxies die by slow 'strangulation'



When galaxies stop making stars, their death is usually a slow process that chokes them of the necessary cool gases over about four billion years. That is the conclusion of astronomers who surveyed thousands of galaxies, living and dead, to assess whether the transition is rapid or slow. In the dead galaxies they detected high levels of metals, which build up during star formation and point to a slow strangulation process. In a commentary for Nature, fellow astronomer Andrea Cattaneo from the Observatoire de Paris compared this tell-tale evidence to the high levels of carbon dioxide seen in a strangled human body. "During [strangulation], the victim uses up oxygen in the lungs but keeps producing carbon dioxide, which remains trapped in the body," wrote Dr Cattaneo. "Instead of building up CO2, the strangled galaxies accumulate metals - elements heavier than helium - produced by massive stars." May 14; http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-32734978








The news of this scientific discovery comes to us on the eve of  the May 18 New Moon. A chart for the New Moon at London from where the journal Nature is published is shown here. Notice that the luminaries along with Mars occupy the Ascendant and are opposite Saturn on the Descendant. Under biological correspondence for Mars-Saturn, Ebertin lists “death by strangulation” [1].  

In addition, the New Moon [26ta55] is conjunct the star Algol [26ta23]. Beta (β) Perseus, Algol, is a bright star positioned on the severed head of Medusa that Perseus is carrying. Diana Rosenberg lists “choking and suffocation” under events connected with this star [2].

Can it really be a coincidence that the discovery of the “choking” mechanism  by which galaxies die occurs at  the New Moon in which  the cosmic energies highlighted are connected with “death by strangulation” ?

[1] The Combination of Stellar Influences; Reinhold Ebertin (p.156)
[2] Secrets of the Ancient Skies; Diana K. Rosenberg (v.1, p.199-201)

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