Incredible Images of Galaxies: Part 2 - Relatively Interesting

Incredible Images of Galaxies: Part 2

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“Telescopes are in some ways like time machines. They reveal galaxies so far away that their light has taken billions of years to reach us. We in astronomy have an advantage in studying the universe, in that we can actually see the past.

We owe our existence to stars, because they make the atoms of which we are formed. So if you are romantic you can say we are literally starstuff. If you’re less romantic you can say we’re the nuclear waste from the fuel that makes stars shine.

We’ve made so many advances in our understanding. A few centuries ago, the pioneer navigators learnt the size and shape of our Earth, and the layout of the continents. We are now just learning the dimensions and ingredients of our entire cosmos, and can at last make some sense of our cosmic habitat.”

– Sir Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal of Great Britain

With that, Part 2 of 3: Incredible Images of Galaxies

NGC5866:
 NGC5866

The Milky Way: Galactic Center
The Milky Way: Galactic Center. Guisard

Hoag’s Object:
Hoag's Object

M31:
M31

NGC7049:
NGC7049

NGC5257 and NGC5258 Interacting:
NGC5257 and NGC5258 Interacting