Posted on 10/11/2025 12:19:36 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Seen edge-on, spiral galaxy NGC 4302 (left) lies about 55 million light-years away in the well-groomed constellation Coma Berenices. A member of the large Virgo Galaxy Cluster, it spans some 87,000 light-years, a little smaller than our own Milky Way. Like the Milky Way, NGC 4302's prominent dust lanes cut along the center of the galactic plane, obscuring and reddening the starlight from our perspective. Smaller companion galaxy NGC 4298 is also a dusty spiral. But tilted more nearly face-on to our view, NGC 4298 can show off dust lanes along spiral arms traced by the bluish light of young stars, as well as its bright yellowish core. In celebration of the 27th anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope on April 24, 1990, astronomers used the legendary telescope to take this gorgeous visible light portrait of the contrasting galaxy pair.
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.
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I wonder what Andromeda galaxy and the Milky Way galaxy would look like from a great distance.
Twins?
cricket vs football, eh?
Cricket vs football, eh?
Government shutdown so no APOD Today.
Why are taxpayer dollars spent on this when the government is so deeply in debt?
I’m sure the amount is small compared to some left wing dreams out of this world.
But we need to recognize that across the spectrum,
the government cannot afford to do everything.
Some things advance society and some things degrade society. Most spending degrades society.
Is it the role of the Federal government to advance society?
Some say AI will advance society. Some disagree. Some say Y will advance society. Other say Z will.
Maybe it is the role of competition in the free market private sector of churches, corporations, fraternal orders, and youth clubs to advance society and not the role of the Federal Government?
Here is another photo of ‘galaxies’...
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I think we are on a microscope slide in some alien laboratory.
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