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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
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To: MtnClimber
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posted on
11/01/2024 11:20:45 AM PDT
by
MtnClimber
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Pinging the APOD list
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posted on
11/01/2024 11:21:23 AM PDT
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MtnClimber
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posted on
11/01/2024 11:38:39 AM PDT
by
No name given
( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
To: MtnClimber
Gorgeous. It’s the astronomical equivalent of Raquel Welch.
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posted on
11/01/2024 11:46:14 AM PDT
by
AFB-XYZ
(Two options: 1) Stand up, or 2) Bend over)
To: AFB-XYZ
Gorgeous. It’s the astronomical equivalent of Raquel Welch. Well, I would not go THAT far.
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posted on
11/01/2024 11:57:05 AM PDT
by
MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
I call dibs on the women around the hot pink stars.
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posted on
11/01/2024 12:17:43 PM PDT
by
DannyTN
To: MtnClimber
I bet there’s a solar system somewhere in there just like ours.
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posted on
11/01/2024 12:19:29 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
To: MtnClimber
Well it IS a long way away so it’d take some time.
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posted on
11/01/2024 12:20:24 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
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).
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posted on
11/01/2024 12:27:25 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
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Time and distance. That’s why I don’t believe in space aliens.
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posted on
11/01/2024 12:47:23 PM PDT
by
NavyShoe
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posted on
11/01/2024 2:35:07 PM PDT
by
telescope115
(I NEED MY SPACE!!! 🔭)
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.
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posted on
11/01/2024 2:42:48 PM PDT
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DannyTN
To: SkyDancer
Odds are you are correct.
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posted on
11/01/2024 2:53:15 PM PDT
by
doorgunner69
(Your oath of enlistment has no expiration date)
To: doorgunner69
And with billions of galaxies out there ....
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posted on
11/01/2024 3:26:08 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
( ~ Am Yisrael Chai ~)
To: SkyDancer
And with billions of galaxies out there .... No telling is out there.
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posted on
11/01/2024 5:45:12 PM PDT
by
MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber
If God wanted us to know, he’d have told us in the scriptures.
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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! )
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