NGC-2775
Distance 67 million light years
Constellation Cancer
Classification, flocculent (tightly bound spiral rings) spiral galaxy with a prominent galactic bulge (big hole in the middle)
Diameter 36,220 light years
Photo credit J Lee and PHANGS-HST Team, Hubble.
Discovered 1783 William Herschel
Distance 67 million light years
Constellation Cancer
Classification, flocculent (tightly bound spiral rings) spiral galaxy with a prominent galactic bulge (big hole in the middle)
Diameter 36,220 light years
Photo credit J Lee and PHANGS-HST Team, Hubble.
Discovered 1783 William Herschel
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And people still believe the Earth was made in 6 days.
Would it make any difference here on earth to see this happen? To watch our possible future play itself out in light from millions of years ago?
I wonder.
Yesterday I learned the meaning of galligaskins (it's ye poofy trousers Sir Walter Raleigh would weare). And of course I forgot the meaning of
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oh crap it's on the tip of my tongue
Ironically, the center is not where the greatest concentration of star formation is happening. But I couldn't make the joke work any other way.
Maybe do you have a reference?
Meaning that if there is a civilization there right now, capable of making a telescope that could resolve just the Earth…
…they would be seeing the dinosaurs.