Posted on 08/29/2009 8:39:32 AM PDT by paul in cape
NGC 7771 Galaxy Group
Explanation: Slide your cursor over the image to identify three members of this intriguing gathering of galaxies.
Known as the NGC 7771 Group, they lie almost 200 million light-years away toward the high flying constellation Pegasus.
The largest galaxy, barred spiral NGC 7771, is itself about 75,000 light-years across, but will someday find itself part of a larger galaxy still.
As the galaxies of the group make repeated close passages, they will finally merge into one very large galaxy.
Played out over hundreds of millions of years, the process is understood to be a normal part of the evolution of galaxies, including our own Milky Way.
Thats not 1701-A
Thats the original. ‘A’ never had the hemispherical red nacelle caps.
WE are far from alone -
that’s a comforting thought to me. I would hope there are civilizations out there that have managed to get a better handle on it than we have.
You mean like the Vogons?
yeah, your right.... its just 1701...no ‘A’.
Live long and prosper my friend.
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