Starship Asterisk*

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If M99 is a cluster breaker distorted by the headwind of the intergalactic media in the Virgo Cluster,
why should M66 be distorted by the other galaxies of Leo triplet? Can M66 be a crusher too?

It has its blue in plenty. Even a Great Blue Pocket.

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https://public.nrao.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/imagesnon-gallery2015d-finley10-13-HalofinalHSTdiskMedianhalo_nrao.jpg Don't have much to say about NGC 5775, but I guess it has been active in the past, if it isn't active now. It has two companions, and the larger one, NGC 5774, is fluffy, almost...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/NGC_1275_Hubble.jpg/1280px-NGC_1275_Hubble.jpg As for NGC 1316, I think of it as a cross between elliptical shell galaxy NGC 474 and active galaxy NGC 1275. NGC 1275 has collided with and is absorbing a spiral galaxy. The dusty remnants of t...

inner globe in NGC 1316 is a carbon copy of APOD post of NGC 1316…
Wait! It is one and the same galaxy!

come to think of it the dust in Cen A can be a disk rather than a tyre and still look like a tyre because of the same visibily trick that make dust streaks in NGC 1316 look so superficial. Then it is no coincedence that the radius of the tyre is the radius of the halo part of the bulge. Our side of ...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Ngc1316_hst.jpg/800px-Ngc1316_hst.jpg https://cdn.eso.org/images/screen/eso0005b.jpg Well... first came Cen A, as the product of a collision between an elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy. Then came NGC 1316, where the spiral galaxy has be...

So, the description is misleading. Thanks. P.s. in regard to an earlier comment by neufer. Phillips also makes Root Beer Schnapps. I hope to sample some, someday... heavy, heavier and heavier still. What is a heavy element astrophysically speaking: Li to Fe, Fe to U? Wiki paints Uranium purple mean...

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trying to imagine a 3d, it's easy to see dusty outskirts as wide tyre around a thin plate wheel. The part near the core is more puzzling. There surely is a large ghostly shine bulge through which we see the far side of the arms' ends. But what are the dusty lanes seen very close to the core due to t...

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some tendril/counter-tendrils 500 ly long can be seen in radio perpendicular to Milky Way plane

But why a galaxy arm should be an axis for a magnetic lines' tube, I wonder

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An interesting question is whether or not the spiral galaxy has a sizable black hole of its own. It may have one, but it also may not. Small local spiral galaxy M33 doesn't have a central black hole, at least not one that can be described as "supermassive" in any way. But if the spiral ga...

To me it looks like the jets are like 45 degrees from perpendicular! 1) The jet and the counterjet line can't lie in the plane of the picture because the counterjet seems much paler than the jet and so must be flowing away from us. 2) The dust gas disk galaxy can't lie in the plane of the picture b...