Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Astronomy Picture of the Day - Spiral Galaxy NGC 6744
NASA ^ | 1 Nov, 2024 | Image Credit & Copyright: John Hayes

Posted on 11/01/2024 11:20:30 AM PDT by MtnClimber

Explanation: Big, beautiful spiral galaxy NGC 6744 is nearly 175,000 light-years across, larger than our own Milky Way. It lies some 30 million light-years distant in the southern constellation Pavo but appears as only a faint smudge in the eyepiece of a small telescope. We see the disk of the nearby island universe tilted towards our line of sight in this remarkably deep and detailed galaxy portrait, a telescopic image that spans an area about the angular size of a full moon. In it, the giant galaxy's elongated yellowish core is dominated by the light from old, cool stars. Beyond the core, grand spiral arms are filled with young blue star clusters and speckled with pinkish star forming regions. An extended arm sweeps past smaller satellite galaxy NGC 6744A at the upper left. NGC 6744's galactic companion is reminiscent of the Milky Way's satellite galaxy the Large Magellanic Cloud.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; nasa
To be added or removed from the Astronomy Picture of the Day ping list please send me a request via "Private Reply" (Mail).

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.

1 posted on 11/01/2024 11:20:30 AM PDT by MtnClimber
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

2 posted on 11/01/2024 11:20:45 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: 21stCenturion; 21twelve; 4everontheRight; A Navy Vet; abb; AFB-XYZ; AFPhys; Agatsu77; ...
Pinging the APOD list

🪐 🌟 🌌 🍔

3 posted on 11/01/2024 11:21:23 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

Wow.


4 posted on 11/01/2024 11:38:39 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

Gorgeous. It’s the astronomical equivalent of Raquel Welch.


5 posted on 11/01/2024 11:46:14 AM PDT by AFB-XYZ (Two options: 1) Stand up, or 2) Bend over)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: AFB-XYZ
Gorgeous. It’s the astronomical equivalent of Raquel Welch.

Well, I would not go THAT far.

6 posted on 11/01/2024 11:57:05 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

I call dibs on the women around the hot pink stars.


7 posted on 11/01/2024 12:17:43 PM PDT by DannyTN
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

I bet there’s a solar system somewhere in there just like ours.


8 posted on 11/01/2024 12:19:29 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

Well it IS a long way away so it’d take some time.


9 posted on 11/01/2024 12:20:24 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: DannyTN
I call dibs on the women around the hot pink stars.

You are way too late. I have the contract on that, but I will give you a percentage if you help fix my roof damage from hurricane Milton. Don't be upset if you get all of the suburban single women with emotional disorders (the reason most are single vote for the 'RATs).

10 posted on 11/01/2024 12:27:25 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

Time and distance. That’s why I don’t believe in space aliens.


11 posted on 11/01/2024 12:47:23 PM PDT by NavyShoe
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

Nice!


12 posted on 11/01/2024 2:35:07 PM PDT by telescope115 (I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

Well I was just thinking that if they are from Hot Pink star solar systems that they are probably girly girls and very feminine.

Not like the alternative.


13 posted on 11/01/2024 2:42:48 PM PDT by DannyTN
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: SkyDancer

Odds are you are correct.


14 posted on 11/01/2024 2:53:15 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Your oath of enlistment has no expiration date)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: doorgunner69

And with billions of galaxies out there ....


15 posted on 11/01/2024 3:26:08 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: SkyDancer
And with billions of galaxies out there ....

No telling is out there.

16 posted on 11/01/2024 5:45:12 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page. More photos added.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 15 | View Replies]

To: MtnClimber

If God wanted us to know, he’d have told us in the scriptures.


17 posted on 11/01/2024 10:00:05 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH! )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson