New picture out...and I missed it...
Been a busy week for me, as most of the grants for my time over the next cycle started being handed out. In fact, I was so busy paying attention to that, I missed that the wonderful folks at the Hubble Heritage Team released their monthly image.
This month they've done some artful zooming into galaxy NGC 300, a galaxy similar to the Milky Way, making it a good subject of study. The end result is this image. It's amazing to think that each one of those specs is a massive star, possibly with its own solar system, and maybe even their own me, taking pictures back towards the Milky Way, and commenting about how one of those dots may contain a solar system that's looking back at them. Oh sure, what we're seeing is actually the galaxy as it appeared 6.5 million years ago, but it's still something to think about.
If you'd like to read more about the image and how it was constructed, the STScI release can be found here and, as always, the Hubble Heritage Project's corner of the web is here.
Possibly more later, as I understand my pictures of Sedna are making the rounds, so I'm going to start scanning the ether for any news about that.
This month they've done some artful zooming into galaxy NGC 300, a galaxy similar to the Milky Way, making it a good subject of study. The end result is this image. It's amazing to think that each one of those specs is a massive star, possibly with its own solar system, and maybe even their own me, taking pictures back towards the Milky Way, and commenting about how one of those dots may contain a solar system that's looking back at them. Oh sure, what we're seeing is actually the galaxy as it appeared 6.5 million years ago, but it's still something to think about.
If you'd like to read more about the image and how it was constructed, the STScI release can be found here and, as always, the Hubble Heritage Project's corner of the web is here.
Possibly more later, as I understand my pictures of Sedna are making the rounds, so I'm going to start scanning the ether for any news about that.