Friday, August 17, 2007

Friday Galactic Blogging



Not every visible galaxy is a spiral, of course. But the spirals are among the most beautiful things I can imagine. This gorgeous image of a relatively close neighbor was taken, surprisingly, by a ground-based telescope, Many of the really striking images from the past decade or two originate from orbital scopes, such as Hubble and Chandra.

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