Free Republic 3rd Qtr 2025 Fundraising Target: $81,000 Receipts & Pledges to-date: $17,123
21%  
Woo hoo!! And we're now over 21%!! Thank you all very much!! God bless.

Keyword: ngc131

Brevity: Headers | « Text »
  • Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Sculptor Galaxy NGC 134

    03/04/2016 12:28:54 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 1 replies
    NASA ^ | March 04, 2016 | (see photo credit)
    Explanation: NGC 134 is probably not the best known spiral galaxy in the constellation Sculptor. Still, the tantalizing island universe is a clearly a telescopic treasure in southern skies. It shares a bright core, clumpy dust lanes, and loosely wrapped spiral arms with spiky foreground stars of the Milky Way and the more diminutive galaxy NGC 131 in this sharp cosmic vista. From a distance of about 60 million light-years, NGC 134 is seen tilted nearly edge-on. It spans some 150,000 light-years, making it even larger than our own Milky Way galaxy. NGC 134's warped disk and faint extensions give...