Posted on 05/18/2012 4:22:35 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Explanation: A mere 2.5 million light-years away, the Andromeda Galaxy really is just next door as large galaxy's go. So close, and spanning some 260,000 light-years, it took 11 different image fields from the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) satellite's telescope to produce this gorgeous portrait of the spiral galaxy in ultraviolet light. While its spiral arms stand out in visible light images of Andromeda (also known as M31), the arms look more like rings in the GALEX ultraviolet view, dominated by hot, young, massive stars. As sites of intense star formation, the rings have been interpreted has evidence Andromeda collided with its smaller neighboring elliptical galaxy M32 more than 200 million years ago. The large Andromeda galaxy and our own Milky Way are the dominant members of the local galaxy group.
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[Credit: GALEX, JPL-Caltech, NASA]
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Thank you again for these threads. They make me smile and praise God!
Andromeda is going to steal our solar system from the Milky Way in a few billion years. We’re all gonna die!
A Classic and iconic View of our Neighbor! Thank You, SunkenCiv! :-)
The Andromeda Galaxy is “just next door”? Wonder if I can run over there and borrow a cup of sugar? They’ll probably tell me that sugar is bad for me and offer me honey instead. Their dogs bark all night.....their kid broke my window with a baseball.....I say let’s put up a fence between us and these neighbors......they’re lowering the property values.
Thanks!
What’s up with the blacked out section at top center?
It’s where the artist was using his thumb to hold the black piece of paper as he was using white spray paint to paint the galaxy....
It’s where the artist was using his thumb to hold the black piece of paper as he was using white spray paint to paint the galaxy....
For real?
For real?
Don’t make the fence too high. The 19 year old daughter is kind of cute and she likes to sunbathe topless.
Haven’t you ever watched Babylon 5?
Nope, SunkenCiv, I haven't.
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