I like looking at beautiful astronomical photos, but I seldom post them because after wow, and that's beautiful, there isn't much to say.
This picturehas all of that and more, but it is the questions that it generatest that I think makes it note worthy.
Before I saw this photo in the Daily Galaxy blog I would have staunchly insisted that this type of galaxy was not possible. Seeing this odd single spiral galaxy you would think that some natural law but there it stubbornly sits.
According to the article:
This picturehas all of that and more, but it is the questions that it generatest that I think makes it note worthy.
Before I saw this photo in the Daily Galaxy blog I would have staunchly insisted that this type of galaxy was not possible. Seeing this odd single spiral galaxy you would think that some natural law but there it stubbornly sits.
According to the article:
- (this is) galaxy NGC 4725 --a barred spiral galaxy about 40 million light-years away in the constellation Corna Berenices.
- (this photo was taken) August 25, 2003 (by the) NASA Spitzer Space Telescope
