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Astronomy Picture of the Day - M64: The Evil Eye Galaxy
APOD.NASA.gov ^
| 29 Mar, 2021
| Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA & the PHANGS-HST Team; Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt
Posted on 03/29/2021 3:25:07 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Who knows what evil lurks in the eyes of galaxies? The Hubble knows -- or in the case of spiral galaxy M64 -- is helping to find out. Messier 64, also known as the Evil Eye or Sleeping Beauty Galaxy, may seem to have evil in its eye because all of its stars rotate in the same direction as the interstellar gas in the galaxy's central region, but in the opposite direction in the outer regions. Captured here in great detail by the Earth-orbiting Hubble Space Telescope, enormous dust clouds obscure the near-side of M64's central region, which are laced with the telltale reddish glow of hydrogen associated with star formation. M64 lies about 17 million light years away, meaning that the light we see from it today left when the last common ancestor between humans and chimpanzees roamed the Earth. The dusty eye and bizarre rotation are likely the result of a billion-year-old merger of two different galaxies.
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TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Society
KEYWORDS: nasa
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03/29/2021 3:25:19 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
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03/29/2021 3:25:56 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
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WOW!!
Another amazing image!
Thanks for posting.
Just think, there are likely BILLIONS of other galaxies out there that more or less resemble this one. The “observable universe” alone is estimated to contain about 100 billion galaxies.
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03/29/2021 3:37:30 PM PDT
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ETL
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posted on
03/29/2021 3:41:51 PM PDT
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BenLurkin
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posted on
03/29/2021 3:45:38 PM PDT
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Fledermaus
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posted on
03/29/2021 3:58:42 PM PDT
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AFB-XYZ
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"The Evil Eye Galaxy" Definitely reminds me of Aunt Esther..
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posted on
03/29/2021 3:59:09 PM PDT
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SuperLuminal
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Watch it, sucka!
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03/29/2021 4:30:06 PM PDT
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NohSpinZone
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To: ETL
The “observable universe” alone is estimated to contain about 100 billion galaxies. Just think how many total stars and planets that is. It must be hundreds and hundreds!
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posted on
03/29/2021 5:36:04 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
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Yet all of it was once contained within a volume of space trillions of times smaller than the nucleus of an atom...so they believe.
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03/29/2021 5:39:06 PM PDT
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ETL
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Lol! Yes, “Inflation Theory” was a concoction intended to explain several serious problems with the standard Big Bang model.
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03/29/2021 6:05:26 PM PDT
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ETL
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Yet all of it was once contained within a volume of space trillions of times smaller than the nucleus of an atom...so they believe. Don't drop that on your toe!!!
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03/29/2021 6:08:54 PM PDT
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MtnClimber
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Lol! It would so small it would pass right through anything without any interference.
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03/29/2021 6:14:52 PM PDT
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ETL
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To: MtnClimber
...although the gravitational field associated with it, if there would be one in such a bizarre situation as that, might be a problem.
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03/29/2021 6:16:32 PM PDT
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ETL
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