Posted on 09/17/2018 10:47:54 AM PDT by ETL
High res image here:
http://cdn.sci-news.com/images/enlarge5/image_6414e-Coma-Cluster.jpg
APOD Ping...
Coma, Coma, Coma, Coma, Coma, Chameleon.................
How long before it dwindles into a mere apostrophe?
Looks like a nice place.
a. I don’t know why you put up with us...
b. More proof that Humans are LESS than insignificant in the Grand Scheme of Things.
c. God is STILL on His Throne. :)
Their is no Hubble telescope.
Coma Cluster
The Coma Cluster (Abell 1656) is a large cluster of galaxies that contains over 1,000 identified galaxies.[2][3] Along with the Leo Cluster (Abell 1367), it is one of the two major clusters comprising the Coma Supercluster.[8] It is located in and takes its name from the constellation Coma Berenices.
The cluster’s mean distance from Earth is 99 Mpc (321 million light years).[3][9][10] Its ten brightest spiral galaxies have apparent magnitudes of 1214 that are observable with amateur telescopes larger than 20 cm.[11] The central region is dominated by two supergiant elliptical galaxies: NGC 4874 and NGC 4889.[12]
The cluster is within a few degrees of the north galactic pole on the sky. Most of the galaxies that inhabit the central portion of the Coma Cluster are ellipticals. Both dwarf and giant ellipticals are found in abundance in the Coma Cluster.[13]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coma_Cluster
Their isn’t?
Below unlabeled...
Already has and then to a period then nothing. The light that you are seeing is from 300 million years ago.
Impressive to think that we might be the only beings able to observe it and understand what it is.
300 million years isn't all that much in the lifetime of galaxies.
Stuff like this puts me in awe. Seeing that image, my mind directly traveled many moons back *1997*: A good friend and I traveled from DFW to the Kiamichi Mts. in E. Oklahoma for a couple of days/nights just to view comet Hale Bopp. We stayed up all night both nights just staring and contemplating... It was purely, naturally magical, almost mystical. I was floored at the very least.
No childish quips here ;)
Light will still be streaming from Coma when we humans are gone.
We were walking home from an event Friday night and looking up at the sky. The planets were surprisingly visible especially in the small town where we had our event. The fingernail moon... and I could find Mars from its reddish tint.
Or the time that we saw Saturn using our hobby telescope. Thought that there was a smudge on the lens and then we realized that it was the rings that made it look distorted. Very exciting.
ETL,
This is what exists - Read Genesis 1:14
There are no satellites.
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