Posted on 05/05/2022 2:59:26 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Gorgeous spiral galaxy NGC 3521 is a mere 35 million light-years away, toward the northern springtime constellation Leo. Relatively bright in planet Earth's sky, NGC 3521 is easily visible in small telescopes but often overlooked by amateur imagers in favor of other Leo spiral galaxies, like M66 and M65. It's hard to overlook in this colorful cosmic portrait though. Spanning some 50,000 light-years the galaxy sports characteristic patchy, irregular spiral arms laced with dust, pink star forming regions, and clusters of young, blue stars. This deep image also finds NGC 3521 embedded in fainter, gigantic, bubble-like shells. The shells are likely tidal debris, streams of stars torn from satellite galaxies that have undergone mergers with NGC 3521 in the distant past.
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Seems to me like a few days ago they posted an APOD
that said all galaxies have a black hole in their center...
A black hole would not be all bright and shiny like that.
I believe there is more we don’t know than what we do know.
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“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
It is a relatively ‘young’ galaxy, still getting its act together.
Notice all the Blue stars. They will all eventually go supernova, planting their seeds of newly formed elements all over the galaxy to create new yellow stars and planets around them..................................
Until matter falls into the Black Hole past the Event Horizon, it is spiraling around it at fantastic speeds. The atoms are rubbing against each other under tremendous force and as a result giving off light.................................
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