Galactic beauty cubed or firing background galaxies from your bar?

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Galactic beauty cubed or firing background galaxies from your bar?

Post by Ann » Sat Nov 27, 2021 5:41 pm

So which "island universe" is the coolest, the one whose galactic beauty is cubed or the one which is firing background galaxies from its bar?

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Anonymous three-armed background galaxy of M101
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NGC 986 is firing background galaxies from its bar! Photo: ESO

So which galaxy is the coolest, the nameless three-armed galaxy behind M101 or NGC 986 which appears to fire a string of background galaxies from its bar?

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Three-armed man. Hey Mister, didn't anyone tell you you should stop smoking?

I vote for the three-armed man - I mean, I vote for the three-armed galaxy - myself!

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