Posted on 02/11/2022 2:35:02 PM PST by MtnClimber
Explanation: Similar in size to large, bright spiral galaxies in our neighborhood, IC 342 is a mere 10 million light-years distant in the long-necked, northern constellation Camelopardalis. A sprawling island universe, IC 342 would otherwise be a prominent galaxy in our night sky, but it is hidden from clear view and only glimpsed through the veil of stars, gas and dust clouds along the plane of our own Milky Way galaxy. Even though IC 342's light is dimmed and reddened by intervening cosmic clouds, this sharp telescopic image traces the galaxy's own obscuring dust, young star clusters, and glowing pink star forming regions along spiral arms that wind far from the galaxy's core. IC 342 may have undergone a recent burst of star formation activity and is close enough to have gravitationally influenced the evolution of the local group of galaxies and the Milky Way.
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Very Pretty. Much prettier then Cameltoeharris
Meh.. Seen one black hole, seen ‘em all.. :/
Camelopardalis...sounds like a hybrid animal, like a Jackalope.
Interesting galaxy. It’s a big fuzz ball in a scope
This, along with it’s neighbors Maffei 1 and Maffei 2 would show almost like Andromedia if it wasn’t for the fact they are so close to the Milky Way dust clouds.
It’s a GIraffe.
You misspelled KameltoeHairyass.
It’s an STD one gets from sleeping with Kamala Harris.
Autocorrect didn’t work on that. Lol
Actually, you’re right - Camel and Leopard, The spots on the giraffe evoked the leopard, and the long neck evoked the camel. — So the Greeks called it the kamelopardalis (in Greek letters of course)...borrowed into Latin it became camelopardalis.
It probably goes back to Herodotus, who described quite a range of exotic peoples and creatures in the known world. Flying snakes, too, which does seem far-fetched (unless they were picked up by strong winds).
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