New Phantom Galaxy Picture from Hubble Telescope
November 30th, 20072007-11-30: Yesterday NASA and the European Space Agency released a nice picture of galaxy M74 composed from data taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2003 & 2005.x40 The galaxy is in Pisces, about 32 million light years away, and is a spiral galaxy like our Milky Way, but a bit smaller. A French astronomer, Pierre Mechain, found the galaxy in 1780. Being faint (10th magnitude) and hard to see from a backyard telescope, M74 came to be called the “Phantom Galaxy”.
_M74, The Phantom Galaxy – NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration_
Being inside of it, we can’t take a picture of the whole Milky Way. But we can make a picture of it from our inside views, including those of space telescopes.x41 Unlike M74, the Milky Way has a distinct central bar of stars.
_The Milky Way – NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC)_
APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day)
Sources
40 ‘Holiday Wishes from the Hubble Space Telescope’ – The Hubble Heritage Project
41 ‘Milky Way Bar’ – Spitzer Space Telescope, NASA
* * * By Quinn Hungeski – Posted at G.N.N. & TheParagraph.com
May 14th, 2009 at 9:00 am
Cooleio.!
Man.!
June 18th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
Wow these are great pictures, how do i find out which images are subject to copyright.
Thank You
Butch Berardesco
June 19th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
The two pictures here are from U.S. government agencies, and are in the public domain.
August 5th, 2009 at 7:01 am
THESE MIND BONGLING PICTURES OF UNIVERSE ARE MARVELLOUS AND STRENGTHEN OUR BELIEF IN THE OMNIPRESENT POWER OF THE ALMIGHTY CONTROLLING THIS BIG UNIVERSE. THANKS TO HUBBLE AND ITS INVENTOR FOR BRINGING SUCH AMAZING TRUTHS TO US
September 16th, 2009 at 12:52 am
wow these pictures are amazing, its truly hard to believe we are the only living ogranisms in our huge and wonderful galaxy, so much of the universe looks to be full of life even if some of the places seem inhabitable, look down in the far depths of the ocean, where it seem nothing can live, yet life found a way.
October 6th, 2009 at 4:19 pm
absolutely beautiful!
October 12th, 2009 at 2:53 am
The existence of life on earth within our universe Give overwhelming evidence to the existence of our creator Elohim…..Jeshurun