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The two galaxies on the far left were unknown until 1968.
Although they would have appeared as two of the brighter galaxies on the night sky, the opaque dust of the
central band of our
Milky Way Galaxy had
obscured them from being seen in visible light.
The above image in
infrared light taken by [...]
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Magnificent spiral galaxy
NGC 4565
is viewed edge-on from planet Earth.
Also known as the Needle Galaxy
for its narrow profile, bright NGC 4565 is a stop
on many telescopic tours of the northern sky,
in the faint but well-groomed
constellation Coma
Berenices.
This
sharp, colorful image reveals the galaxy’s bulging central core
cut by obscuring dust lanes that lace
NGC 4565’s thin [...]
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This beautiful cosmic portrait
features NGC 891.
The spiral galaxy
spans about 100 thousand light-years and is seen almost exactly edge-on
from our perspective.
In fact, about 30 million light-years distant in the constellation
Andromeda,
NGC 891 looks a lot
like our Milky Way.
At first glance, it has a
flat, thin, galactic disk and
a central bulge cut along the middle [...]
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Will the result of these galactic collisions be one big
elliptical galaxy?
Quite possibly, but not for
another billion years.
Pictured above, several of the
dwarf galaxies of in the
Hickson
Compact Group 31 are seen slowly merging.
Two of the brighter galaxies are colliding on the far left, while an
elongated galaxy above is connected to them [...]
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Most galaxies have a single nucleus — does this galaxy have four?
The strange answer leads
astronomers
to conclude that the nucleus of the surrounding galaxy is not even visible in
this image.
The central
cloverleaf is rather light emitted from a background
quasar.
The gravitational field of the visible foreground
galaxy
breaks light
from [...]
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Abbreviation: And
Genitive: Andromedae
Translation: Princess of Ethiopia or the Chained Lady
Position in the Sky
Right Ascension: 1 hour
Declination: 40 degrees
Visible between latitudes 90 and -40 degrees
Best seen in November (at 9:00 PM)
Named Stars
ALPHERATZ (Alpha And)
MIRACH (Beta And)
ALMAAK (Gamma 1 And)
Adhil (Xi And)
Messier Objects
M31 The Andromeda Galaxy (spiral galaxy)
M32 Satellite galaxy of Andromeda (elliptical galaxy)
M110 Satellite galaxy of [...]
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