Posted on Jan 28, 2021
APOD: 2021 January 28 - Messier 66 Close Up
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Good morning, Rallypoint. Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day is titled "Messier 66 Close Up." One of the members of the Leo Triplet (the others being Messier 65 and NGC 3628 - The Hamburger Galaxy), M66 lies about 35 million light years away in the constellation Leo. And no, your eyes are not fooling you. The galaxy features asymmetric spiral arms which seem to climb above its main disc and an apparently displaced nucleus. This asymmetry is unusual; astronomers believe that this shape has most likely been created by the gravitational pull of its two galactic neighbors. M66 also boasts a remarkable record of supernovae explosions. A total of five have been detected (the last in 2016) since 1973.
APOD: 2021 January 28 - Messier 66 Close Up
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Hawkwind - Spiral Galaxy 28948
From the 1975 album Warrior On The Edge Of Time.
Thank you my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day is titled "Messier 66 Close Up." One of the members of the Leo Triplet (the others being Messier 65 and NGC 3628.
Images: Messier 66 Close Up - Image Credit - NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing & Copyright - Leo Shatz
APOD Background
"Explanation: Big, beautiful spiral galaxy Messier 66 lies a mere 35 million light-years away. The gorgeous island universe is about 100 thousand light-years across, similar in size to the Milky Way. This reprocessed Hubble Space Telescope close-up view spans a region about 30,000 light-years wide around the galactic core. It shows the galaxy's disk dramatically inclined to our line-of-sight. Surrounding its bright core, the likely home of a supermassive black hole, obscuring dust lanes and young, blue star clusters sweep along spiral arms dotted with the tell-tale glow of pinkish star forming regions. Messier 66, also known as NGC 3627, is the brightest of the three galaxies in the gravitationally interacting Leo Triplet."
Hawkwind - Spiral Galaxy 28948
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2Tb5--eiyo
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Images: Messier 66 Close Up - Image Credit - NASA, ESA, Hubble; Processing & Copyright - Leo Shatz
APOD Background
"Explanation: Big, beautiful spiral galaxy Messier 66 lies a mere 35 million light-years away. The gorgeous island universe is about 100 thousand light-years across, similar in size to the Milky Way. This reprocessed Hubble Space Telescope close-up view spans a region about 30,000 light-years wide around the galactic core. It shows the galaxy's disk dramatically inclined to our line-of-sight. Surrounding its bright core, the likely home of a supermassive black hole, obscuring dust lanes and young, blue star clusters sweep along spiral arms dotted with the tell-tale glow of pinkish star forming regions. Messier 66, also known as NGC 3627, is the brightest of the three galaxies in the gravitationally interacting Leo Triplet."
Hawkwind - Spiral Galaxy 28948
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2Tb5--eiyo
FYI Maj Robert Thornton LTC (Join to see) COL Mikel J. Burroughs PO1 William "Chip" Nagel Maj Bill Smith, Ph.D. Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Sgt Vance Bonds MAJ Dale E. Wilson, Ph.D. TSgt David L.PO2 (Join to see) SSG Michael Noll SMSgt David A Asbury SMSgt Lawrence McCarter PO1 H Gene Lawrence SPC Michael Terrell SSG Samuel Kermon SFC Chuck Martinez SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL CPT (Join to see)
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LTC Stephen F.
Crywank - Privately owned spiral galaxy
26 October 2019, Mulgara, Canberra
Crywank - Privately owned spiral galaxy with pained scream :-)
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SSG (Join to see) LTC Tom McNew LTC Stephen C. SSG Michael Noll SGT Steve McFarland LTC Stephen F. 1SG Steven Imerman Cpl (Join to see) Sgt Kelli Mays MSgt Robert "Rock" Aldi PO3 Lynn Spalding LTC (Join to see) SSG Gordon Holmes SMSgt Lawrence McCarterSGT Mark Anderson SPC Nancy Greene 1SG (Join to see) PO2 (Join to see) SGT Denny Espinosa SSG C.V. Shaw
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Great pic -- I was trying hard to see if it was tied to Mark Messier of the NHL NY Rangers, but alas he was number 11
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Maj William W. 'Bill' Price
CSM Chuck Stafford Here's a picture of Messier 11 (The Wild Duck Cluster). It contains over 2,900 stars, and lies some 6,000 light years away in the constellation Scutum (The Shield). The brighter members of the cluster form a V-shaped triangle that resembles a flock of ducks when observed in a small telescope.
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CSM Chuck Stafford
Maj William W. 'Bill' Price - Thank-you for the additional pic for the day -- amazing stuff nature is
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