Posted on 11/13/2024 11:58:47 AM PST by MtnClimber
Explanation: A mere 56 million light-years distant toward the southern constellation Fornax, NGC 1365 is an enormous barred spiral galaxy about 200,000 light-years in diameter. That's twice the size of our own barred spiral Milky Way. This sharp image from the James Webb Space Telescope's Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) reveals stunning details of this magnificent spiral in infrared light. Webb's field of view stretches about 60,000 light-years across NGC 1365, exploring the galaxy's core and bright newborn star clusters. The intricate network of dusty filaments and bubbles is created by young stars along spiral arms winding from the galaxy's central bar. Astronomers suspect the gravity field of NGC 1365's bar plays a crucial role in the galaxy's evolution, funneling gas and dust into a star-forming maelstrom and ultimately feeding material into the active galaxy's central, supermassive black hole.
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Wow.
It looks like the result of two galaxies colliding...............
Who barred it, and why?
Will it ever be unbarred?
it looks like God didn’t like the way it turned out and he crossed it out...
Bars on galaxies. This is what happens if you don’t control neighborhood crime.
Sad, but that’s the way it goes sometimes…
“A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away”…..
I tried to catch a photo of this the other night with my Dwarf3 camera/scope. I would NEVER expect to get anything like that with the Dwarf, but, I didn’t get close as a series of clouds went over that section of the sky and just hung there. I went for stuff overhead and things were ok there.
Great photo of a galaxy 56 million light years away.
Yet when I take a photo of Bigfoot outside the UFO I get a blurry picture...
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