Posted on 06/15/2012 3:40:14 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Explanation: Nearby and bright, spiral galaxies M65 (top) and M66 stand out in this engaging cosmic snapshot. The pair are just 35 million light-years distant and around 100,000 light-years across, about the size of our own spiral Milky Way. While both exhibit prominent dust lanes sweeping along their broad spiral arms, M66 in particular is a striking contrast in red and blue hues; the telltale pinkish glow of hydrogen gas in star forming regions and young blue star clusters. M65 and M66 make up two thirds of the well-known Leo Triplet of galaxies with warps and tidal tails that offer evidence of the group's past close encounters. The larger M66 has been host to four supernovae discovered since 1973.
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[Credit & Copyright: Bill Snyder (Heavens Mirror Observatory) ]
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I wonder what lives there?
I wonder how far apart they are from each other-what would a being in either galaxy see of the other galaxy? Andromeda size or Magellanic Cloud size?
Don Coreolis.
They are both about 35 million light years distant. Assuming that they are really that far away, then they are about 200,000 light years away from each other, which is a little further than the Large Magellanic Cloud. But the actual diameter is about 7 times as big as the LMC so it will cover a significant part of the sky.
All that goes out the window if one is 35 MLY from earth and the other is 36 MLY.
35, million light years away. 1 light year = 6 trillion miles. Now that’s one hell of a flight!
35, million light years away. 1 light year = 6 trillion miles. Now that’s one hell of a flight!
35, million light years away. 1 light year = 6 trillion miles. Now that’s one hell of a flight!
35, million light years away. 1 light year = 6 trillion miles. Now that’s one hell of a flight!
35, million light years away. 1 light year = 6 trillion miles. Now that’s one hell of a flight!
“M-objects are a lot like stars or planets, only Messier.”
That’ll l’arn ‘em.
Wow! Coordinated gamma ray bursts from the black holes in the centers of two galaxies at the same time!
Cool!
Uh oh. Now what?
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