02-19-2011, 07:24 AM | #1 |
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Astronomy pic of the day
I thought this one particularly impressive:
A mere 46 million light-years distant, spiral galaxy NGC 2841 can be found in the northern constellation of Ursa Major. http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html |
02-19-2011, 07:54 AM | #2 |
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OK, me stupid - what shines so bright in the middle?
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02-19-2011, 10:58 AM | #7 |
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I always felt there was something a bit unusual about Geoff..... hmmm....
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Breathtaking picture. BTW, if you're interested in Astronomy and Physics, I'm about a third of the way into Brian Greene's latest book, Hidden Reality and, so far, it is very interesting.
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Hey Mike thanks for the recommendation. I'll check it out! He's a great writer!
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It's primarily because it over-saturates the imaging device. As an astro-photographer myself, it's extraordinary difficult to get a nice-looking image that shows both the nucleus and the spiral arms of a galaxy, because the nucleus is so much brighter. You end up either with an over-exposed nucleus and nice-looking spiral arms, or a correctly exposed nucleus and almost invisible spiral arms.
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thanks all for the explanations! I guess the part with black holes in the middle of galaxies was not meant for all of them
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No, there is indeed a black hole in the centre of pretty much every galaxy, but it's an EXTREMELY small object. You can't see it (obviously!); they are detected by their X-ray emissions.
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02-20-2011, 07:28 AM | #13 |
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It sounds so obvious when someone explains it
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