Posted on 06/01/2011 5:06:45 PM PDT by decimon
The image "could almost be a picture postcard of our own Milky Way", said the ESO
Astronomers have released what they say is the best-yet picture of NGC 6744, a spiral galaxy described as a "sibling" of our own Milky Way.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
30 million years old? Doesn't look a day over 20 million.
Maybe over there Palin is President?
I saw a show on TV as a Lad, about a spaceship sent to a planet directly opposite the sun, traveling through space in the same orbit just on the opposite side of the sun.
When they got there, they hadn’t left and things (current events?)were slightly askew.
Great premise for a SF book with this new Twin Galaxy, huh?
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito come to mind.
It is my opinion the best picture of anything ever made.
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