Alex Cunningham
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“Anyone not shocked by quantum mechanics has not yet understood it.”
Niels Bohr (7 October 1885 – 18 November 1962)
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The Great Wall of China, 1907 by Herbert G. Ponting
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IC405 in Ha (Flaming Star Nebula) by swag72 on Flickr.
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MergeMosaic_clone by pfile on Flickr.
This is a galaxy (by apontzen).
Via: http://www.microsiervos.com/archivo/ciencia/esto-es-una-galaxia.html
NGC7331, a spiral galaxy by thebadastronomer on Flickr.
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NGC 4696 is an elliptical galaxy. It lies around 150 million light years away in the constellation Centaurus. It is the brightest galaxy in the Centaurus Cluster, a large, rich cluster of galaxies in the constellation of the same name.[3] The galaxy is surrounded by many dwarf elliptical galaxies also located within the cluster.[3]
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NGC 4696 is an elliptical galaxy. It lies around 150 million light years away in the constellation Centaurus. It is the brightest galaxy in the Centaurus Cluster, a large, rich cluster of galaxies in the constellation of the same name.[3] The galaxy is surrounded by many dwarf elliptical galaxies also located within the cluster.[3]
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NGC253 “Silver Dollar galaxy” by J-P Metsavainio on Flickr.
Hoag’s Object: Galactic Tutu Came Naturally
A galactic oddball may have spun itself into its strange bull’s-eye shape, report astronomers probing the origins of Hoag’s Object.
The galaxy, made up of a golden sphere of stars in the middle of a much bigger star-studded hula hoop, had once been thought to have formed as the result of a cosmic smashup.
Now, using both ground- and space-based observations, Israeli and Russian astronomers propose that the object formed that way on its own. The golden core formed first, at least 10 billion years ago. Soon after, the core skirted itself with a disk of hydrogen gas that it pulled from surrounding material. The disk’s spiral pattern could be caused by rotation of the core, if the central cluster isn’t quite spherical.
That setup would also explain the ongoing star formation that dots the ring with young, massive stars, the team reports in an upcoming Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
(via kenobi-wan-obi)
Messier 81, a spiral galaxy about 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. (via WISE; NASA Spitzer Space Telescope 2, 3)
cwnl:
NGC253-NGC288
Copyright: Jason Jennings
