Posted on 03/11/2025 5:38:29 PM PDT 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 1672, featured here, was captured in spectacular detail in an image taken by the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope. Visible are dark filamentary dust lanes, young clusters of bright blue stars, red emission nebulas of glowing hydrogen gas, a long bright 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 1672, which spans about 75,000 light years across. NGC 1672, which appears toward the constellation of the Dolphinfish (Dorado), has been studied to find out how a spiral bar contributes to star formation in a galaxy's central regions.
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IMO, you can’t have too many bars in galaxies, you get really thirsty for a drink in outer space.
THIS here, is just some crazy stuff.
“IMO, you can’t have too many bars in galaxies, you get really thirsty for a drink in outer space.””
In a galaxy, far, far away, the bars are spread far and wide, so that “It is 5 o’clock somewhere” is always true.
Besides, alcohol kills brain cells, but only the weak ones. I’m getting smarter every day!
I wonder how many Mos Eisley cantinas there are in NGC1672?
Wow.
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