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Posted on 04/16/2015 4:56:15 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Explanation: While most spiral galaxies, including our own Milky Way, have two or more spiral arms, NGC 4725 has only one. In this sharp color composite image, the solo spira mirabilis seems to wind from a prominent ring of bluish, newborn star clusters and red tinted star forming regions. The odd galaxy also sports obscuring dust lanes a yellowish central bar structure composed of an older population of stars. NGC 4725 is over 100 thousand light-years across and lies 41 million light-years away in the well-groomed constellation Coma Berenices. Computer simulations of the formation of single spiral arms suggest that they can be either leading or trailing arms with respect to a galaxy's overall rotation. Also included in the frame, sporting a noticably more traditional spiral galaxy look, is a more distant background galaxy.
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[Credit and Copyright: Martin Pugh]
That’s the Galaxy that killed my wife!
Good one...
This is an example of a spiral galaxy “wrapped up”, like all of them would be if they were as old as the Big Bang theory requires.
I got a big bang out of your positive response!
Usually I just string along, but this morning, FR seems like one big unified field! :-)
THAT’S HIM!!!!!!
LOL.
And the human race is alone, uhuh.
That post made me go all a-Kimble……
It may only have one arm, but it certainly is pretty, and I seriously doubt that it killed Richard Kimble’s wife.
But, you just never know. Only David Janssen knows for sure. Too bad he died too young in 1980.
No one is sure when it is going to stop running, either. ;’)
If I were an alien, I’m not too sure I’d want to make contact with Earth. ;’)
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