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- Thu Apr 03, 2008 2:16 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: M55 (globular) & star clusters (APOD 02 Apr 2008)
- Replies: 17
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- Wed Apr 02, 2008 10:33 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: M55 (globular) & star clusters (APOD 02 Apr 2008)
- Replies: 17
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M55 Density
Phil G, since the stars that make up M55 are much older than the stars around it, it must have come from an extra-Milky Way source. One thing I've always wondered is how the stars in these dense clusters keep from combining and creating one gigantic star, since they are so close to each other. It se...
- Fri Jun 15, 2007 3:53 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Messier 96 (APOD 15 June 2007)
- Replies: 7
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- Fri Jun 15, 2007 3:51 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Messier 96 (APOD 15 June 2007)
- Replies: 7
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Your question doesn't make any sense to me, so maybe I didn't explain myself clearly. I'll try again. Thanks for your patience: M96 is 38M light-years from us, yet we cannot go out and see it in the night sky. The background galaxy that lies beyond M96 in today's APOD pic is supposedly 150M miles fr...
- Fri Jun 15, 2007 2:41 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Messier 96 (APOD 15 June 2007)
- Replies: 7
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Messier 96 (APOD 15 June 2007)
Here's the last part of the caption from today's pic: "Background galaxies and smaller Leo I group members can be found by examining the picture, but accomplished astro-imager Adam Block notes he is most intrigued by the edge-on spiral galaxy that apparently lies behind the outer spiral arm nea...