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🔭 In the Center of Spiral Galaxy M61

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble, ESO; Processing & Copyright: Robert Gendler

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A sprawling spiral galaxy is shown in great detail. This galaxy has blue spiral arms and a bright center that itself seems to look like a spiral galaxy. Please see the explanation for more detailed information.
June 24, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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🔭 Messier 109

Image Credit & Copyright: Robert Eder

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Big beautiful barred spiral galaxy Messier 109 is the 109th entry in Charles Messier's famous catalog of bright Nebulae and Star Clusters. You can find it just below the Big Dipper's bowl in the northern constellation Ursa Major. In fact, bright dipper star Phecda, Gamma Ursa Majoris, produces the glare at the upper right corner of this telescopic frame. M109's prominent central bar gives the galaxy the appearance of the Greek letter "theta", θ, a common mathematical symbol representing an angle. M109 spans a very small angle in planet Earth's sky though, about 7 arcminutes or 0.12 degrees. But that small angle corresponds to an enormous 120,000 light-year diameter at the galaxy's estimated 60 million light-year distance. The brightest member of the now recognized Ursa Major galaxy cluster, M109 (aka NGC 3992) is joined by spiky foreground stars. Three small, fuzzy bluish galaxies also on the scene, identified (top to bottom) as UGC 6969, UGC 6940 and UGC 6923, are possibly satellite galaxies of the larger barred spiral galaxy Messier 109.
June 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Orion. Canon 6D MarkII, Redcat 51. ISO 3200. 2.5 hours acquisition. APP and Camera Raw.

#astrophotography #photography #astronomy
March 2, 2025 at 10:34 PM