Markarian's Chain of Galaxies
Credit & Copyright: Piotrek Sadowski
Posted on 06/09/2009 6:18:18 AM PDT by sig226
Explanation: Across the heart of the Virgo Cluster of Galaxies lies a striking string of galaxies known as Markarian's Chain. The chain, pictured above, is highlighted on the upper right with two large but featureless lenticular galaxies, M84 and M86. Prominent to their lower left is a pair of interacting galaxies known as The Eyes. The home Virgo Cluster is the nearest cluster of galaxies, contains over 2000 galaxies, and has a noticeable gravitational pull on the galaxies of the Local Group of Galaxies surrounding our Milky Way Galaxy. The center of the Virgo Cluster is located about 70 million light years away toward the constellation of Virgo. At least seven galaxies in the chain appear to move coherently, although others appear to be superposed by chance.
There are a lot of stars in those galaxies ....
I think this type of photo is definitely my favorite. This type gives a hint of the enormity of the universe.
“This type gives a hint of the enormity of the universe.”
makes me feel smaller then a speck.
What a whirling jumble they are, all facing different directions and spinning and flying about! How huge they are, and how tiny each of us is, and how infinitely greater is the Creator of all.
Assuming there are 365.25 days/year, then there are 31557600 seconds/year. If we were able to travel at a mile a second or 3600 m/hr, it would take just over 28,479,833,027 years (that’s over 28 billion years) to get to the middle of the Virgo Cluster.
Now suppose we went a million miles/second or 3,600,000,000 m/hr, it would only take 28,480 years to get there. In the grand scheme of things, we sure ain’t much.
Do You think Intelligent Life on one of those galaxies discovered Obama amongst them, realized Obama was literally the Village Idiot, and Time Warped “HIM” down to Us as The Ultimate Curse of The Universe?
Yes, instead of sending an emissary as portrayed in the Original "The Day the Earth Stood Still" to warn us about blowing up the world, they decided to just go ahead and hasten the destruction by sending us Bozo.
I think i’ve been there once back in the 80’s.
Thanks for these posts.
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