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Posted on 06/19/2025 12:07:33 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. The 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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Wow.
Beautiful detail.
What’s it like inside the bubble?
Does your head ever give you trouble?
It’s no sin.
Trade it in.
Sort it out.
You’ll make out.
Glenn Shorrock is 80 now, coming up on 81 Lord willing 🙏
Now that is a LOT of dope smoking.
What a great song.
One of my favorite albums back then was their live album “Backstage Pass”. Never got to see them live, though.
I turned it off or changed radio 📻 stations whenever it came in for decades
I have now rediscovered it recently and realized what a GREAT song it is
Form a duet
Let Him sing Melody
You’ll provide the Harmony
wow
https://youtu.be/7tcutmdnFvk?si=lri13qR3gQUFw4AV
Saw a guy pretending to be Jeff Porcaro about 1978. He didn’t look ANYTHING like
Jeff Porcaro but I didn’t know what Jeff looked like at that time.
Somehow he made his way backstage to a local Little River Band performance.
He cost a naive local girl and her family an enormous amount of money via his fraud.
We never found out who that guy really was.
The brightest star in this image (at about 1 O’Clock from the galaxy) also seems to have a faint “bubble” around it.
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