APOD on Saturday 14th May

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by BMAONE23 » Sat May 14, 2005 3:38 pm

Looking closely at the two images, you will notice that in this image http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/ ... st_big.jpg
there is a bright star in the lower right quadrant near to the galaxy that isn't in this one http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/ ... t_full.jpg. The galaxy in the latter image also appears to be stretched (there is a slight streamer or tail that stretches to the bottom of the image near to the small bright blue spot). The two galaxies are astoundingly similar though.

APOD on Saturday 14th May

by ford_rule » Sat May 14, 2005 11:04 am

well, the date me different for you, but here in australia thats what it is, anyway, the link to the enlarged picture is
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/ ... t_full.jpg

and just the apod link

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap050514.html

anyway, my question, well qeury is on the enlarged version you see many galaxies in the distance which makes for quite a stunning image, but the bright edge on galaxy thats direction is upwards, looks remarkably similar to the sombrero galaxy, pardon me if it is, i just thought that if the larger galaxy were so much brighter, no one would really bother about it, but yeh, is it the sombrero or not?

image of the sombrero
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap031008.html

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