"A Look to the Heavens" -- Spiral Galaxy NGC 6744
May 27, 2017 13:50:25 #
"A Look to the Heavens"
"Big, beautiful spiral galaxy NGC 6744 is nearly 175,000 light-years across, larger than our own Milky Way. It lies some 30 million light-years distant in the southern constellation Pavo appearing as a faint, extended object in small telescopes. We see the disk of the nearby island universe tilted towards our line of sight.
This remarkably distinct and detailed galaxy portrait covers an area about the angular size of the full moon. In it, the giant galaxy's yellowish core is dominated by the light from old, cool stars. Beyond the core, spiral arms filled with young blue star clusters and pinkish star forming regions sweep past a smaller satellite galaxy at the lower left, reminiscent of the Milky Way's satellite galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud.”
- https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
"Big, beautiful spiral galaxy NGC 6744 is nearly 175,000 light-years across, larger than our own Milky Way. It lies some 30 million light-years distant in the southern constellation Pavo appearing as a faint, extended object in small telescopes. We see the disk of the nearby island universe tilted towards our line of sight.
This remarkably distinct and detailed galaxy portrait covers an area about the angular size of the full moon. In it, the giant galaxy's yellowish core is dominated by the light from old, cool stars. Beyond the core, spiral arms filled with young blue star clusters and pinkish star forming regions sweep past a smaller satellite galaxy at the lower left, reminiscent of the Milky Way's satellite galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud.”
- https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html
May 27, 2017 15:04:24 #
pafret wrote:
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Fascinating. You may like to take a look at this 3 min video which really puts things into perspective from light years to microscopic distances: https://youtu.be/jfSNxVqprvM
May 27, 2017 16:37:30 #
cesspool jones
Loc: atlanta
bylm1 wrote:
Fascinating. You may like to take a look at this 3 min video which really puts things into perspective from light years to microscopic distances: https://youtu.be/jfSNxVqprvM
That’s really good.
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