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Galaxy on Edge
The magnificent galaxy NGC 4710 is tilted nearly edge-on to our view from Earth. This perspective allows astronomers to easily distinguish the central bulge of stars from its pancake-flat disk of stars, dust, and gas. What's striking in the image is a ghostly "X" pattern of stars. This natural-color photo was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys on January 15, 2006. For more information about galaxy NGC 4710 visit: http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0914.html . http://hubblesite.org/news_release/news/2009-30 |
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Galaxy on Edge
On Friday, December 8, 2017 at 10:15:55 AM UTC-8, wrote:
The magnificent galaxy NGC 4710 is tilted nearly edge-on to our view from Earth. This perspective allows astronomers to easily distinguish the central bulge of stars from its pancake-flat disk of stars, dust, and gas. What's striking in the image is a ghostly "X" pattern of stars. This natural-color photo was taken with the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys on January 15, 2006. For more information about galaxy NGC 4710 visit: http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0914.html . http://hubblesite.org/news_release/news/2009-30 We see Milky Way on edge with dust blocking are view to the center..Seeing galaxies head on is best.Treb& bert |
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