From Space … septembre 9, 2011
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Irregular Galaxies juillet 20, 2009
Posted by astrothmane in 100% astronomie.Tags: Irregular Galaxies, NGC 104, The Antennae (NGC 4038 and NGC 4039), The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), the Tarantula Nebula (NGC 2070
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Irregular Galaxies are the strangest-looking galaxies how are lacking symmetry, not like the previous galaxies, some of them were born strange from the start, while the shape of others changes by collisions
The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) lies just 210000 light-years from Earth, and the bright object to the upper right of the SMC is (NGC 104)
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) ranks as the biggest galaxy visible from Earth, the most exceptional object in the LMC among the wonders that offers is the Tarantula Nebula (NGC 2070): the largest know star-forming region in the universe
The Antennae (NGC 4038 and NGC 4039) appear peculiar: they are colliding under the force of interaction because of their mass…the two spirals stared to interact a few hundred million years ago, this future galaxy looks wonderful with their brilliants colors: blue star clusters and reddish emission nebulas …
Elliptical galaxies juillet 17, 2009
Posted by astrothmane in 100% astronomie.Tags: Elliptical galaxies, ESO 510-G13, NGC 1132, NGC 4881, NGC 5128
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Elliptical galaxies are different to spiral galaxies in how elliptical they look, they offer less variety in appearance and more in size, there is about a trillion or more stars, are ellipticals in the universe’s biggest galaxies
The massive elliptical galaxy NGC 4881 appears to be close to a sphere, a large of globular star clusters appear as points of light surrounding the galaxy,this galaxy is far from the Earth by hundreds of millions of light-years
The stretched elliptical galaxy NGC 1132, looks like if it is elongated, astronomers suspect that many giant ellipticals including NGC 1132, grew by swallowing a lot of smaller galaxies!!
NGC 5128 is not boring like many elliptical galaxies, also known as Centaurus A, far from Earth just by 10 million light-years, and appear brilliant with its bright colors; most interesting detail is the dust curved band
