Re: sombrero

Mike wrote:
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M104 like never before

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/spitzer/spitzer-050405-browse.jpg

It is a composite of IR  from spitzer and visible light from HST.  800
billion suns in mass!


And truly fantatstic in that 4 megabytes full size.


http://www.habitablezone.com/space/messages/378131.html 

Oh, brother. This is trully fantastic!

What the heck are the two red galaxies on the lower left?

This takes first place in my heart. I cannot fathom the laws that designed
such a beautiful thing.




Those 2 galaxies look like twins! I have never heard of double galaxies. The only other possibility
is an optical artifact but nothing in that whole picture suggests any optical illusions...

The only other possibility? This is a .sci group not .alt. ;-) Among other things it could be a highly red-shifted galaxy, where we're only seeing blue-UV emissions shifted into the red. Without spectral data, radio, X-ray etc, one pic optimized for a pretty picture of a Messier object hardly limits the possibilities. Gravitational lensing?
Intriguing little object though.

Shawn
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