Posted on 10/15/2020 5:23:43 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: This sharp telescopic view reveals galaxies scattered beyond the stars of the Milky Way, at the northern boundary of the high-flying constellation Pegasus. Prominent at the upper right is NGC 7331. A mere 50 million light-years away, the large spiral is one of the brighter galaxies not included in Charles Messier's famous 18th century catalog. The disturbed looking group of galaxies at the lower left is well-known as Stephan's Quintet. About 300 million light-years distant, the quintet dramatically illustrates a multiple galaxy collision, its powerful, ongoing interactions posed for a brief cosmic snapshot. On the sky, the quintet and NGC 7331 are separated by about half a degree.
(Excerpt) Read more at apod.nasa.gov ...
For more detail go to the link and click on the image for a high definition image. You can then zoom by moving the magnifying glass over an area and then clicking. The side bars will move the zoomed area over the photograph.
Pinging the APOD list.
This close up of the quintet took my breath away. And then you zoom in and small smudges become more galaxies.
Saw the same thing. Jaw dropping.
I wonder how Messier missed that big one?
I like the photos of the Messier objects because of my past searches for them. I actually could estimate fairly accurately their brightness levels by fuzzing (de-focusing) nearby stars of known brightness and comparing them to the Messier objects. Doing that was more fun than simply finding the objects but my eyes were 35 years younger then.
Not practicing galactic distancing. Could catch Covid flu. Or Astrid flu.
To me, this looks like the Grinch.....eating a blue hamburger.
I cannot wrap my mind around the fact
that there is so much space ...no ending.
WTH are we?
Not a hamburger....a cheeseburger. I will try to figure out how to post the reason. It may take me a while though.
At visual magnitude +10.4, it’s really dim. Dimmer than any object on the messier list. Seeing such a dim object in a small scope without knowing where to look is quite difficult. There are only 5 objects in the Messier catalog that are mag +10.0 or dimmer, and 4 were discovered by Pierre Méchain. One of them, M91, is thought to have been found by Messier, but not certain.
“The colliding Stephan’s Quintet galaxies”
They are 300 million light years away, so what we see
is how they looked like 300 million years ago.
I wonder if they have collided yet?
Can anyone tell me if this is actually live from the ISS?
I’ve enjoyed watching it for a while, but there have been times when it has seemed recorded:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBPjVzSoepo
From the text below the video:
“These recorded videos offer a unique and spectacular view of our home - the majority of these videos will not be found elsewhere and were created especially for Space VIdeos.”
I guess I wanted to know if it’s really ‘live’, as the display suggests.
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