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Astronomy Picture of the Day - NGC 1672: Barred Spiral Galaxy from Hubble
NASA ^ | 09/13/2016 | (see photo credits)

Posted on 09/13/2016 7:42:34 AM PDT by ThomasMore

Astronomy Picture of the Day

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2016 September 13
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NGC 1672: Barred Spiral Galaxy from Hubble
Image Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive, NASA, ESA; Processing & Copyright: Steve Cooper

Explanation: Many spiral galaxies have bars across their centers. Even our own Milky Way Galaxy is thought to have a modest central bar. Prominently barred spiral galaxy NGC 1672, featured here, was captured in spectacular detail in an image taken by the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope. Visible are dark filamentary dust lanes, young clusters of bright blue stars, red emission nebulas of glowing hydrogen gas, a long bright bar of stars across the center, and a bright active nucleus that likely houses a supermassive black hole. Light takes about 60 million years to reach us from NGC 1672, which spans about 75,000 light years across. NGC 1672, which appears toward the constellation of the Dolphinfish (Dorado), is being studied to find out how a spiral bar contributes to star formation in a galaxy's central regions.

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TOPICS: Astronomy
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Will mankind ever be able to travel to another galaxy? Would love to behold this site with the naked eye from deep space.
1 posted on 09/13/2016 7:42:34 AM PDT by ThomasMore
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2 posted on 09/13/2016 7:43:10 AM PDT by ThomasMore (We're edging closer and closer to a civil war! Blame the politicians!)
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To: ThomasMore

Imagine being near the center of a galaxy where the stars are so numerous and bright. I bet there could be places where there is no night. Scientists say radiation would be a problem though.


3 posted on 09/13/2016 7:47:43 AM PDT by Sawdring
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To: ThomasMore

Beautiful view.

Basically swirling mud that goes nuclear in places.

Humans are advanced byproducts in a minor eddy in a massive stream.


4 posted on 09/13/2016 7:53:33 AM PDT by cicero2k
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To: ThomasMore

It wouldn’t look like this anyway. Color and brightness are enhanced in astronomical images. The nearest big galaxy (Andromeda) is actually about 6 times wider than the full moon in the sky, but too dim for the human eye to see very well, if at all. Time exposure and color filters are used to bring out the detail. It’s all real, our eyes just can’t pick up most of it.

That is, until we all robotic eye implants like the Six Million Dollar Man.


5 posted on 09/13/2016 7:59:54 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: Sawdring

Have you read “Nightfall” by Asimov.

It address star density very nicely.


6 posted on 09/13/2016 8:36:06 AM PDT by Conan the Librarian (The Best in Life is to crush my enemies, see them driven before me, and the Dewey Decimal System)
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To: ThomasMore

Very doubtful. The technology just isn’t there right now and doesn’t appear to be for the very near future.


7 posted on 09/13/2016 9:33:50 AM PDT by ealgeone
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To: ThomasMore

I’m with you on that!


8 posted on 09/13/2016 11:15:49 AM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

If they can attain the technology needed to travel to another galaxy (galactic drive) then I’m sure they’ll have replacement eyes that can see all this and then some.


9 posted on 09/13/2016 11:20:18 AM PDT by ThomasMore (We're edging closer and closer to a civil war! Blame the politicians!)
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To: Conan the Librarian

No, I should pick it up. I read their Foundation, Empire and Robot novels but put him down after those.


10 posted on 09/13/2016 12:25:51 PM PDT by Sawdring
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To: ThomasMore

BEAUTIFUL!!!!


11 posted on 09/13/2016 2:13:21 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: ThomasMore

I see the number 9.

5.56mm


12 posted on 09/13/2016 2:18:39 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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