4/28/2005: Beautiful Hubble galaxies shot
http://cellar.org/2005/m51_hst_lgx.jpg
Been a while since the IotD had a Hubble image... partly because they were not all that unusual or striking. This was released recently (maybe because it's beautiful) and is today's Astronomy pic of the day. The main galaxy there is NGC 5194, and it's baby brother in the corner is NGC 5195. You could see these with an ordinary telescope, they are ONLY 37 million light years away. So if those star-naming people convince you to get a star named for you, perhaps it will be one of the millions and millions of stars in this shot. The Hubble has already looked into NGC 5194 further: http://cellar.org/2005/m51nucs.jpg From here, we find that the center of that thing MIGHT be a massive black hole! Quote:
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Seems to me that the scientific community is starting to believe that every galaxy (including the one we inhabit) revolves around a supermassive black hole. I wonder what its like in the very center of one of those things. Kinda cramped I would think.
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Isn't this galaxy also called M51 (Messier)...
btw,I had that picture as my background in my computer few years ago. I think I want it back now. :) |
So as to motion - the thing looks like a vortex with everything swirling into the middle, except...
except that the baby next to it, is it stealing from the large galaxy or is it being robbed? Is there motion to the thing or is that all just happenstance? |
I am very, very afraid that it is just a static image.
But I see it too. |
remember that while the picture is two dimentional, the galaxies are not. That "baby" appears to be behind the big one. Could be far behind it.
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Yup...this is M51, more commonly known as "The Whirlpool Galaxy".
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No matter. There's a wonderful restaurant at the end.
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GiANT EYES
Looks like the insides of two giant eyeballs to me. What if the universe were just one giant human being and the planets some kind of cell to keep it going. The sun- the cavern of the mouth which closes at night or something like that.... :greenface :eyebrow: :worried: :lol: :D :eek: :gray:
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