Guest guest Posted September 11, 2002 Report Share Posted September 11, 2002 http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20020909/capt.1031543325.hub ble_hoag_ny117.jpg This image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures a face-on view of the galaxy's ring of stars, revealing more detail than any existing photo of this object. The entire galaxy is about 120,000 light-years wide, which is slightly larger than our Milky Way Galaxy. The blue ring, which is dominated by clusters of young, massive stars, contrasts sharply with the yellow nucleus of mostly older stars. What appears to be a " gap " separating the two stellar populations may actually contain some star clusters that are almost too faint to see. Curiously, an object that bears an uncanny resemblance to Hoag's Object can be seen in the gap at the one o'clock position. The object is probably a background ring galaxy. The galaxy is 600 million light-years away in the constellation Serpens. The Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 took this image on July 9, 2001. (AP Photo/NASA) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 11, 2002 Report Share Posted September 11, 2002 for some reason the long URLs are cut off and don't appear as a link. please copy and paste the entire URL to view the image. this time i'm trying without the wrap message text option. http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20020909/capt.1031543325.hub ble_hoag_ny117.jpg Nisargadatta, " Hur Guler " <hurg> wrote: > http://us.news2.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20020909/capt.1031543325.hub > ble_hoag_ny117.jpg > > This image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captures a face-on view > of the galaxy's ring of stars, revealing more detail than any > existing photo of this object. The entire galaxy is about 120,000 > light-years wide, which is slightly larger than our Milky Way Galaxy. > The blue ring, which is dominated by clusters of young, massive > stars, contrasts sharply with the yellow nucleus of mostly older > stars. What appears to be a " gap " separating the two stellar > populations may actually contain some star clusters that are almost > too faint to see. Curiously, an object that bears an uncanny > resemblance to Hoag's Object can be seen in the gap at the one > o'clock position. The object is probably a background ring galaxy. > The galaxy is 600 million light-years away in the constellation > Serpens. The Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 took this image on > July 9, 2001. (AP Photo/NASA) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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