From the upgraded Hubble Observatory:
(From here)
Thursday, September 10, 2009
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4 comments:
Wonderful picture. I like today's Butterfly Nebula from Astronomy picture of the day too.
And of course, the Bad Astronomer's whole website.
Thanks. Lovely image.
The Butterfly Nebula is all over the `Net, which is why I went for a different image. I don't understand, gravitationally speaking, how a barred galaxy can exist, but maybe I ought to go read up on it.
It does seem counter-intuitive. But they claim barred-spirals are more common than not.
Did you see the one of a portion of the open cluster Omega Centauri ?
What a night sky that would be:
All of the stars in the image are cozy neighbors. The average distance between any two stars in the cluster's crowded core is only about a third of a light-year, roughly 13 times closer than our Sun's nearest stellar neighbor, Alpha Centauri. Although the stars are close together, WFC3's sharpness can resolve each of them as individual stars. If anyone lived in this globular cluster, they would behold a star-saturated sky that is roughly 100 times brighter than Earth's sky.
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