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Supernova Blast Bonanza in N
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Supernova Blast Bonanza in Nearby Galaxy |
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A Bright Supernova in the Ne
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A Bright Supernova in the Nearby Galaxy NGC 2403 |
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A Bright Supernova in the Ne
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A Bright Supernova in the Nearby Galaxy NGC 2403 |
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Hidden Galaxy IC 342
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Hidden Galaxy IC 342 |
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Similar [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060707.html ] in size to other large, bright spiral galaxies IC 342 [ http://www.seds.org/~spider/spider/LG/i0342.html ] is a mere 7 million light-years distant in the long-necked, northern constellation Camelopardalis [ http://www.coldwater.k12.mi.us/lms/planetarium/myth/ camelopardalis.html ]. A sprawling island universe [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap051222.html ], IC 342 would otherwise be a prominent galaxy in our night sky [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060413.html ], but it is almost hidden from view behind the veil of stars, gas and dust clouds in the plane of our Milky Way galaxy [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060801.html ]. Even though IC 342's light is dimmed by intervening cosmic clouds [ http://www-ssg.sr.unh.edu/ism/what1.html ], this remarkably sharp telescopic image [ http://www.robgendlerastropics.com/IC342NM.html ] traces the galaxy's own obscuring dust, blue star clusters, and glowing pink star forming regions along spiral arms that wind far from the galaxy's core. IC 342 [ http://www.astro.spbu.ru/staff/dio/IC342/IC342E.html ] may have undergone a recent burst [ http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0305552 ] of star formation activity and is close enough [ http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/messier/xtra/ngc/ maffei1g.html ] to have gravitationally influenced the evolution of the local group [ http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/messier/more/local.html ] of galaxies and the Milky Way. |
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Kemble's Cascade
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Kemble's Cascade |
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A picturesque chain of unrelated stars is visible with strong binoculars towards the constellation [ http://www.astro.wisc.edu/~dolan/constellations/extra/constellations.html ] of Camelopardalis [ http://www.astronomical.org/constellations/cam.html ]. Known as Kemble's Cascade [ http://www.agt.net/public/fenertyb/KmbCsc08.html ], the asterism [ http://www.seds.org/Maps/Const/asterism.html ] contains about 20 stars [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/lib/glossary.html#star ] nearly in a row stretching over five times the width of a full moon [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap991108.html ]. Made popular by astronomy enthusiast Lucian Kemble [ http://www.jps.net/davestea/Lucian/LucianAutoBio.htm ] (1922-1999), these stars appear as a string only from our direction in the Milky Way Galaxy [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/milky_way.html ]. The above photograph [ http://www.starlightccd.com/walter/picturebook/constellation/kemble's_cascade.htm ] of Kemble's Cascade [ http://www.jps.net/davestea/Lucian/KemblesCasc.htm ] was made with a small telescope in New Mexico [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap000814.html http://www.state.nm.us/ ], USA [ http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/us.html ]. The bright object near the bottom left is the relatively compact open cluster [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/open_clusters.html ] of stars known as NGC 1502 [ http://www.dibonsmith.com/ngc1502.htm ]. |
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Hidden Galaxy IC 342 from Ki
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Hidden Galaxy IC 342 from Kitt Peak |
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Beautiful nearby spiral galaxy IC 342 could be more famous if it wasn't so hidden. A sprawling island universe [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap051222.html ], IC 342 would be a prominent galaxy in our night sky [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060413.html ], but it is almost hidden from view behind the veil of stars, gas and dust clouds in the plane of our Milky Way galaxy [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060801.html ]. Similar [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap060707.html ] in size to other large, bright spiral galaxies IC 342 [ http://www.seds.org/~spider/spider/LG/i0342.html ] is a mere 7 million light-years [ http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/question19.html ] distant in the long-necked, northern constellation of the Giraffe (Camelopardalis [ http://www.coldwater.k12.mi.us/lms/planetarium/myth/ camelopardalis.html ]). Even though IC 342's light is dimmed by intervening cosmic clouds [ http://www-ssg.sr.unh.edu/ism/what1.html ], this remarkably sharp telescopic image [ http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/html/im1032.html ] traces the galaxy's own obscuring dust [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070606.html ], blue star clusters [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071118.html ], and glowing pink star forming region [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070506.html ]s along spiral arms that wind far from the galaxy's core [ http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap041227.html ]. IC 342 [ http://www.astro.spbu.ru/staff/dio/IC342/IC342E.html ] may have undergone a recent burst [ http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0305552 ] of star formation activity and is close enough [ http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/messier/xtra/ngc/ maffei1g.html ] to have gravitationally influenced the evolution of the local group [ http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/messier/more/local.html ] of galaxies and the Milky Way. |
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