Spectacular spiral galaxies more than 60million light years away

Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | Oct. 29, 2010 | Staff

[fightinJAG]

Displayed in all their exquisite detail, six spectacular galaxies are pictured more clearly that they ever have before.

All of them are beautiful examples of spiral galaxies and were captured in images from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) at the Paranal Observatory in Chile.

The pictures were taken in infrared light, using the impressive power of the HAWK-I camera, and will help astronomers understand how the remarkable spiral patterns in galaxies form and evolve.-incredible-new-detail.html#ixzz13uAfNijg

[BenLurkin]

ping

[fightinJAG]

[fightinJAG]

Doesn’t somebody have an “Astronomy Picture of the Day” pinglist? Can’t remember who. Help?

[BenLurkin]

Astronomy Picture ping

[JPG]

60 million light years = 360,000,000,000,000 miles. A very long walk.

[JoeProBono]

The NGC 1672 spiral galaxy captured by the Hubble telescope is 60 million light-years away

[Vendome]

That’s is beautiful!

I want to go there.

[skinkinthegrass]

A very long walk.

If there's no time limit, you could make it.
if given, light sail & provisions.

[LasVegasMac]

A 3 qty PBJ stroll, to be sure.

[JSteff]

60 million light years = 360,000,000,000,000 miles

You would think that would put to bed the threads on FR about E.T. visiting us on a regular basis. But it doesn't......

[aquila48]

How insignificant I feel at the sight of this!

The earth is not even equivalent to a speck of light in those clouds of stars. And we humans are nothing but tiny microbes scurrying around on earth’s crust.

[zeestephen]

Beautiful pictures.

Thanks for posting.

[James C. Bennett]

Go to my home-page, and click on the picture. Then, examine it in full size.

[AwesomePossum]

Given that one light year = 5.88 trillion miles..........wouldn't it be 5.88 trillion x 60 million?

:}

[GATOR NAVY]

sig226 was doing the APOD but apparently he has quit FR. I was looking at taking it on myself if I could figure out how to post it. I’ve tried but it’s not just a cut and paste.

[Minn]

I want to go there.

There's seems a certain pointlessness to places too far a way to ever go to, and too hostile to ever survive in, even if you could somehow get there.

[The Cajun]

Would you believe there's an Obama like object at the very center of each galaxy.

[Sarajevo]

Just a thought- If the light from those galaxies took 60 million years to reach us, are they still there, and if so, how do they appear today?

[fightinJAG]

That’s an interesting and (I mean this in a good way) obvious question! So “obvious” I have never heard it posed before!

For all the time it takes sunlight to get here, we still can use “current” solar weather predictions to predict weather and other phenomenon here on earth.

Maybe an astronomer will happen by to shed light on this. No pun intended.