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
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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
April 24th, 2010 at 11:31 am
Parabéns aos cientistas que inventaram esse telescópio tão maravilho quanto suas imagens.
Brasil, Brasil.
August 11th, 2010 at 5:16 am
wonderfull and amazing to see and know about the universe.I am greatful to NASA,HUBBLE and GOOGLE
February 23rd, 2011 at 4:05 pm
Wow these pictures are fantastic and yet humbling, it always makes me realise of how small we actually are in comparison to the vast and neverending universe. Seeing these pictures always brings me down to earth (pardon the pun). The troubles we experience in our short existance seem too small to worry about. The marvels that space exploration brings to the human race is not always seen or realised as important by all, but in the future it is essential to our own existance. Maybe in my lifetime i hope some breakthrough in technology is discovered and i could experience these marvels for myself.
I am shortly moving house and would like to purchase some pictures for my wall, any ideas of affordable web sites to look at? it would be much appreciated. Jamie.
Wonders of the universe on BBC2 starts 6th Feb 2011, presented by Professor Brian Cox, Tune in as it is very good.
August 25th, 2011 at 8:54 am
BAH. Just more pro-Milky Way propaganda. There’s no way our galaxy is that neat.
March 20th, 2012 at 1:50 pm
Breathtaking, and how insignificant we seem to be in our galaxy alone. Remember that this picture shows us just one grain of sand in a desert in all its beauty and might. It would be wrong to assume that we are alone!
April 9th, 2012 at 5:57 am
In which metthod picture about Milcy Way was reconstructed?
Rein from Tallinn, Estonia
May 16th, 2012 at 10:38 am
Puts things in perspective dosent it when we are even hardly visible in our own galaxy. We went to the moon & it dosent even register.We are only one of billions of galaxies like this in an endless universe & they tell us there is no other life out there. What are they politicians.
May 17th, 2012 at 2:38 am
Thank you for your reaction to me.