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How many in the Quintet today? [Starts With A Bang]Perhaps my favorite of the new Hubble pictures is this one of Stephan's Quintet (and click here for the 1000 pixel wide version): It's so stunning that it was chosen as today's Astronomy Picture of the Day. But yesterday, I got a very interesting question to go along with it: These galaxies ... |
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Stephan’s QuintetStephan’s Quintet text©2009, Raj Arumugam; pictures:NASA we are locked in enclosures rooms and offices and cars and planes and shopping centers and thought traps and traditions and beliefs and systematic delusions; and we have over-crowded minds confine... |
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Stephan's QuintetThe first identified compact galaxy group, Stephan's Quintet is featured in this stunning image from the newly upgraded Hubble Space Telescope. About 300 million light-years away, only four galaxies of the group are actually locked in a cosmic dance of repeated close encounters. The odd man out i... |
