wonderofscience, 15 days ago The majestic Sombrero galaxy captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. This galaxy is 50,000 light-years across and is instantly recognizable by its brilliant white core encircled by thick dust lanes. Image credit: NASA/STScI/AURA The video pans slowly across a spiral galaxy viewed edge-on, highlighting its bright central core and a dense, dark dust lane bisecting it horizontally. The thin disk extends from the central bulge, glowing against the darkness of space scattered with distant stars and faint galaxies. It concludes by zooming out to capture the entire galaxy.
The majestic Sombrero galaxy captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. This galaxy is 50,000 light-years across and is instantly recognizable by its brilliant white core encircled by thick dust lanes.
Image credit: NASA/STScI/AURA
The video pans slowly across a spiral galaxy viewed edge-on, highlighting its bright central core and a dense, dark dust lane bisecting it horizontally. The thin disk extends from the central bulge, glowing against the darkness of space scattered with distant stars and faint galaxies. It concludes by zooming out to capture the entire galaxy.
Lazarou, 14 days ago @wonderofscience thinking about all those stars, all those planets around those stars and very occasionally, the people on those planets.
@wonderofscience thinking about all those stars, all those planets around those stars and very occasionally, the people on those planets.
wonderofscience, 15 days ago Read more about the galaxy and download the original full-size images here: https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2003/28/1415-Image.html
Read more about the galaxy and download the original full-size images here: https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2003/28/1415-Image.html
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