Friday, February 20, 2015

APOD 3.5

IN this picture what you see is spiral galaxy m106. This galaxy is made up of a swirling disk of star an gas. Its appearance has blue spiral arms and red dust lanes closer to the center.  M106 glows very bright in radio waves they also emit x-rays.  An example of the closest thing to m106 is the sefert class of galaxies. This is where gas was thought to be falling through a massive black hole. M106 is only 23.5 million light years away from us. The width of is is 60 thousand light years. You can see it within the hunting dogs constellation. 
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