Astronomy
It is an image of Messier 96, a spiral galaxy just over 35 million light years away in the constellation of Leo [The Lion]. It is of about the same mass and size as the Milky Way.
It was first discovered by astronomer Pierre Méchain in 1781, and added to Charles Messier?s famous catalogue of astronomical objects just four days later.
The galaxy resembles a giant maelstrom of glowing gas, rippled with dark dust that swirls inwards towards the nucleus. Messier 96 is a very asymmetric galaxy; its dust and gas are unevenly spread throughout its weak spiral arms, and its core is not exactly at the galactic center.
Its arms are also asymmetrical, thought to have been influenced by the gravitational pull of other galaxies within the same group as Messier 96.
This group, named the M96 Group, also includes the bright galaxies Messier 105 and Messier 95, as well as a number of smaller and fainter galaxies. Messier 105 is the nearest group contains both bright spirals and bright elliptical galaxy.
source:- nasa.gov
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the Heart of a Galactic Maelstrom
It was first discovered by astronomer Pierre Méchain in 1781, and added to Charles Messier?s famous catalogue of astronomical objects just four days later.
The galaxy resembles a giant maelstrom of glowing gas, rippled with dark dust that swirls inwards towards the nucleus. Messier 96 is a very asymmetric galaxy; its dust and gas are unevenly spread throughout its weak spiral arms, and its core is not exactly at the galactic center.
Its arms are also asymmetrical, thought to have been influenced by the gravitational pull of other galaxies within the same group as Messier 96.
This group, named the M96 Group, also includes the bright galaxies Messier 105 and Messier 95, as well as a number of smaller and fainter galaxies. Messier 105 is the nearest group contains both bright spirals and bright elliptical galaxy.
source:- nasa.gov
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The Messier 94 or the cat's eye galaxy in Canes Venatici has beautiful structure in the core. It is 16 frames of 6 minutes each, ISO 1600 through the CPC 11 f10, camera Canon 40D(modified). Messier 94 is at distance 16 MLY and has apparent magnitude...
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