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Astronomy Picture of the Day- Government shutdown so no APOD Today. I will dig up some of my favorites - NGC 4302 and NGC 4298
NASA ^ | 21 Apr, 2017 | Image Credit: NASA, ESA, M. Mutchler (STScI)

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.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: apod; nasa; ngc4298; ngc4302

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1 posted on 10/11/2025 12:19:36 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 10/11/2025 12:19:55 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: 21stCenturion; 21twelve; 4everontheRight; A Navy Vet; A_perfect_lady; abb; AFB-XYZ; AFPhys; ...
Pinging the APOD list

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3 posted on 10/11/2025 12:20:57 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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I wonder what Andromeda galaxy and the Milky Way galaxy would look like from a great distance.


4 posted on 10/11/2025 12:37:38 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Twins?


5 posted on 10/11/2025 1:22:12 PM PDT by NeverTyranny
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To: MtnClimber

cricket vs football, eh?


6 posted on 10/11/2025 1:23:26 PM PDT by Bethaneidh
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Cricket vs football, eh?


7 posted on 10/11/2025 1:24:55 PM PDT by Bethaneidh
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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.


8 posted on 10/11/2025 2:34:37 PM PDT by spintreebob
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Why are taxpayer dollars spent on this when the government is so deeply in debt?

Some things advance society and some things degrade society. Most spending degrades society.

9 posted on 10/11/2025 2:39:56 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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