Daily Telescope: The ambiguously galactic duo
Submitted 6 months ago by threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to astronomy@mander.xyz
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/04/daily-telescope-the-ambiguously-galactic-duo/
Submitted 6 months ago by threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to astronomy@mander.xyz
https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/04/daily-telescope-the-ambiguously-galactic-duo/
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 6 months ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
It’s April 23, and today’s photo comes from the Hubble Space Telescope.
It features a lovely, barred spiral galaxy and a photobombing star on the right-hand side of the image.
The galaxy is NGC 3783, which can be found 130 million light-years away from Earth.
Astronomical distances are all mind-boggling, but to try to put things into perspective, that means this galaxy is about 1,000 times the distance farther from us compared to the diameter of our own Milky Way Galaxy.
If you look around the edges of the bright galaxy in the middle of the image, you can see many other spherical and oddball shaped galaxies that are out there, whizzing around the cosmos doing their thing.
Do you want to submit a photo for the Daily Telescope?
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