Starship Asterisk*

orin stepanek wrote: ↑Fri Nov 27, 2020 2:58 pm Got to thinking about the beginning of APOD and what it was like! This is the earliest photos I could find!


https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/ca9506.html

Ann wrote: ↑Fri Nov 27, 2020 5:27 pm

orin stepanek wrote: ↑Fri Nov 27, 2020 2:58 pm Got to thinking about the beginning of APOD and what it was like! This is the earliest photos I could find!


https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/ca9506.html

Spiral Galaxy M100. Explanation: The M100 galaxy is a large spiral galaxy similar to our own Milky Way, containing over 100 billion stars. It is over 150 million light years away, so the light we see left when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. The picture was taken in 1993 with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 on board the Hubble Space Telescope. Picture Credit: NASA, Hubble Space Telescope.

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Fascinating, Orin! I remember the image of the central part of Virgo Cluster galaxy M100 very well. It made me a long-time fan of both Hubble Space Telescope and galaxy M100!

Galaxy M100. Photo: Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes.

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For comparison, I'm offering an Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes image of M100 (at right), so that you can really see how small the central part of the galaxy is, the part that was imaged by Hubble back in 1993!

Ann