#GALAXY

Arp Bot 🤖ArpBot
2025-06-28

Legacy Surveys image of Arp 10, also known as UGC 1775.

About 85 million years ago, another galaxy likely collided with Arp 10 near its center. This created a density wave that spread outwards, like a ripple in a pond, forming a ring of new stars in the freshly compacted gas. The intruder galaxy appears as a knot below and left of the nucleus.

Credit: Legacy Surveys, D. Lang, NERSC, Meli thev, Wikimedia Commons
Source: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil

A face-on spiral galaxy in shades of muted yellow and cream has a bright central core, surrounded by an oval-shaped bright ring. The core is offset from the center of the ring to the bottom left. It looks a little like a fried egg. Outside of the ring are wispy spiral arms that are not well defined. The arms spiral clockwise from the edge of the ring. The background is dotted with yellow and orange stars and tiny background galaxies.
2025-06-28

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I love how I understood that reference

Thank you for refreshing my energy modulation to that wonderful period

#Orion #Belt #Galaxy

Arp Bot 🤖ArpBot
2025-06-28

Hubble image of Arp 290, also known as IC 195 and IC 196.

This interacting galaxy pair consists of a larger barred spiral (IC 196, top) and a smaller intermediate spiral (IC 195, bottom).

Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, Julianne Dalcanton, Meli thev, Wikimedia Commons
Source: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil

A greyscale image of two interacting spiral galaxies. The larger galaxy in the upper part of the frame has a bright central core surrounded by a long bar structure. The bar is crossed by dark dust lanes. Emerging from the bar is the beginning of one spiral arm at about 6 o'clock that curves upward. There are additional, barely visible spiral arms that wrap around the galaxy. The smaller galaxy in the bottom left portion of the frame also has a bright core, surrounded by an oval-shaped central region, and very faint, wispy spiral arms. The black background of space is filled with foreground stars and tiny background galaxies. The image has a noticeable amount of detector noise which has not been removed.
2025-06-27

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【ポケポケ】5連勝するまで"トキワのもり"から出られません【本郷奏多の日常】
Daniel Pomarèdepomarede
2025-06-27
This Hubble image shows the spiral galaxy UGC 11397.
2025-06-27
From source in toot: Two mosaics of 8 each images each, in 2 rows, of edge-on disk galaxies observed by the James Webb Space Telescope. The mosaic at the top is titled “thin and thick disk galaxies.” The bottom is titled “thick disk only galaxies.” Each disk galaxy is centered within a square frame and lies against the black background of space. They appear as thin lines with a slight bulge in their centers. A few of the galaxies are horizontal or vertical, but many are angled diagonally. The thin and thick disk galaxies are overall whiter and brighter compared to the thick disk only galaxies, which are fainter and brown-orange. Text in the bottom right of each box lists the galaxy’s redshift. From left to right, the first row of the top mosaic reads z =0.12; z = 0.25; z = 0.45; and z = 0.72. The second row reads z = 0.21; z = 0.38; z =0.65; and z = 0.73. The top row of the bottom mosaic reads z = 0.73, z = 0.94; z = 1.25; and z = 2.63. The bottom row reads z = 0.91; z = 1.03; z = 2.13; and z = 3.01.
MAGMOEmagmoe
2025-06-27

【ポケポケ】5連勝するまで”トキワのもり”から出られません【本郷奏多の日常】

【ポケポケ】5連勝するまで”トキワのもり”から出られません【本郷奏多の日常】 [音楽] こんにちは本田です今日はポケポケで遊ん でいきたいと思うのですがご覧の通り今日 は外に出ておりますここはなんと時輪の森 ですそうポケットモンスターでピカチュウ が出てくるあの森ですねこの場所で ポケポケのランクマッチを行って5連勝 するまで帰れないという企画をやって いこうと思いますよっしゃ行くぞ いや時の森って何だよって思いますよね僕 もそう思います実際ここはどこなのかと 言いますと三市にある時の森という場所で ございますその中でも森っぽいなという 場所でカメラを回しておりますもちろん 許可撮ってますまだから時の森から出られ ませんってただ言いたかっただけですね ただ5連勝するまで…

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Arp Bot 🤖ArpBot
2025-06-27

Image of Arp 85, also known as the Whirlpool Galaxy or M51, from the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies by Halton Arp (1966).

In the original catalog, it was in the category: Spiral galaxies - Large, high surface brightness companions. Halton Arp mistakenly believed that the smaller galaxy, NGC 5195, was being ejected from the Whirlpool. In reality, the two galaxies are in the process of merging.

Source: ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Ar

A grainy, black and white image of two galaxies. The larger of the two galaxies, a spiral, is on the left side of the image. Two well-defined arms extend to from its center and form loose spirals around the middle. The smaller galaxy on the far-right side is fuzzy sphere. The view of this smaller galaxy is partially obstructed by the tip of one of the arms of the spiral galaxy, which appears to cover the top third of the smaller galaxy. Many white dots, stars, are seen on the black background.
Astronomy Picture of the Dayapod@mastodon.bot
2025-06-27

APOD from 2025-06-27

Messier 109

Barred spiral #galaxy M109, below the Big Dipper in Ursa Major, is marked by a central bar resembling the Greek letter theta. Spanning 7 arcminutes or 0.12 degrees, it corresponds to 120,000 light-years across at 60 million light-years away. It's the brightest in the Ursa Major cluster, with possible satellite galaxies UGC 6969, UGC 6940, and UGC 6923 nearby.

HD image at apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250627.ht #astronomy #planet #earth

Messier 109
2025-06-27

2025 June 27

Messier 109
* Image Credit & Copyright: Robert Eder
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Explanation:
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.
app.astrobin.com/u/Robsi?i=alb
science.nasa.gov/mission/hubbl

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110624.ht
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap121013.ht

messier.seds.org/xtra/history/

chandra.harvard.edu/photo/scal
chandra.harvard.edu/photo/scal
arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9608124

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250627.ht

#space #galaxy #astrophotography #photography #science #nature #NASA

2025 June 27

Messier 109
 * Image Credit & Copyright: Robert Eder

Explanation: 
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. 

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