Posted on 02/21/2022 4:09:20 PM PST by MtnClimber
Explanation: Many spiral galaxies have bars across their centers. Even our own Milky Way Galaxy is thought to have a modest central bar. Prominently barred spiral galaxy NGC 6217, featured here, was captured in spectacular detail in this image taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope in 2009. Visible are dark filamentary dust lanes, young clusters of bright blue stars, red emission nebulas of glowing hydrogen gas, a long bar of stars across the center, and a bright active nucleus that likely houses a supermassive black hole. Light takes about 60 million years to reach us from NGC 6217, which spans about 30,000 light years across and can be found toward the constellation of the Little Bear (Ursa Minor).
For more detail go to the link and click on the image for a high definition image. You can then move the magnifying glass cursor then click to zoom in and click again to zoom out. When zoomed in you can scan by moving the side bars on the bottom and right side of the image.
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Meanwhile, the James Webb Space Telescope is almost a million miles out there, and knows nothing of what's going on down here.
One of many that would be fun to explore.
Do you think James Webb would want Castro-Trudeau launched into the Sun to get enlightenment? And maybe accompanied by some special guests?
It could watch them pretty closely if they were launched in the opposite direction.
Deep space or into the sun. I pick into the sun. Aliens would send them back.
When Hubble took it’s first pictures ever, I was stunned at how bad they screwed it up.
After they designed the corrective optics, sent them up there, installed them and took the new pictures, I was amazed at how beautiful the pictures looked, and at how they were able to design and manufacture such a solution….
Why would anyone want to BAN a SPIRAL GALAXY????!!!! What a double standard! Cancel culture is SO WRONG!!!
FREE THE BANNED SPIRAL GALAX.... *adjusts glasses* Oh.....never mind......
Barred, banned...still wrong!
Beautiful, especially with the False Color Imaging!
(A Mocha Blueberry shake with Pepperment pieces on top! I like the picture but doubt I would like the shake!)
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