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Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Messier 77
NASA ^ | May 10, 2013 | (see photo credit)

Posted on 05/10/2013 4:36:33 PM PDT by SunkenCiv

Explanation: Face-on spiral galaxy M77 lies a mere 47 million light-years away toward the aquatic constellation Cetus. At that estimated distance, the gorgeous island universe is about 100 thousand light-years across. Also known as NGC 1068, its compact and very bright core is well studied by astronomers exploring the mysteries of supermassive black holes in active Seyfert galaxies. M77 is also seen at x-ray, ultraviolet, infrared, and radio wavelengths. But this sharp visible light image based on Hubble data follows its winding spiral arms traced by obscuring dust clouds and red-tinted star forming regions close in to the galaxy's luminous core.

May 10, 2013

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TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; astronomy; cetus; m77; messier77; messierobject; ngc1068; science
[Credit: NASA, ESA, André van der Hoeven]

1 posted on 05/10/2013 4:36:33 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: brytlea; cripplecreek; decimon; bigheadfred; KoRn; Grammy; married21; steelyourfaith; Mmogamer; ...
I've seen Messier objects than this.

2 posted on 05/10/2013 4:38:06 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Its full of stars.


3 posted on 05/10/2013 4:38:33 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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the big one, and hey, wow:
http://129.164.179.22/apod/image/1305/heic1305aM77_2948.jpg


4 posted on 05/10/2013 4:38:59 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: SunkenCiv

What about ‘Gretzky 99’?


5 posted on 05/10/2013 4:41:15 PM PDT by rfp1234 (Arguing with a marxist is like playing Chess with a Pigeon.)
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To: SunkenCiv
big one

No kidding!
That was fantastic.

6 posted on 05/10/2013 4:47:42 PM PDT by moose07 (the truth will out ,one day. liberals and logic: Never confuse the two! Hi MI# !)
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To: SunkenCiv
"a mere 47 million light-years away"
7 posted on 05/10/2013 4:48:30 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both)
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To: rfp1234

A reprise....

8 posted on 05/10/2013 5:33:37 PM PDT by mikrofon (Messier 11)
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To: BenLurkin

That’s an interesting point actually. If you’ve ever seen that “powers of ten” movie clip, that pans from the nuclear scale all the way out to the known universe, you’ll notice that there’s a big gap of nothing from the solar system scale, at 10 light-hours to the galactic scale, at 100,000 l-yrs. And then clusters of galaxies are only about 200 times as large as galaxies, at 200 million l-yrs or so, and then 100 times that is the universe, at 20 billion l-yrs.

So yeah, 47 million l-yrs is up there, even though it’s among the closest of all the visible galaxies.


9 posted on 05/10/2013 5:35:10 PM PDT by dr_lew
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To: SunkenCiv

LOL.

It’s actually quite “neat”.


10 posted on 05/10/2013 7:00:51 PM PDT by left that other site ((Ban the ubiquitous and deadly solvent, Di-hydrogen monoxide!!!))
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