Apod 4.8

APOD 4.8

This picture is so astounding. It looks like a volcanoe erupting in the night sky. Even though that is the milky way galaxy, just the picture of a volcanoe is just so cool! This was taken in Hawaii at Mauna Kea. This picture also looks so cool because the ground is rocky then their is a cloudy landscape right under it. Also because they are above most of the layers of the atmosphere, it is easier to view space. The bright lights coming up frmo the clouds are the lights of the famous city Kiauea and Mauna Loa.

Apod 4.7

This picture looks so amazing. When I imagine space I think of it as an ocean. A vast ocean that contains everything in the world. Coincidently it also has some of the same properties in it. For example there is no gravity in space or water, you cannot breathe in space, However there are some differences too. For example space you cannot move you will just fall, and space is very cold, and space contains billions of different objects. This picture for one is the whirlpool Galaxy. It follows he handle of the big dipper. It is one of the Messier objects, to be exact the 51st one. This galaxy is interesting, for example it has spiral arms and a magellenic cloud coming out from it. A cool thing about galaxies is that in the center there has to be something with enough gravity to forces everything into it. The only thing that has that much gravity is a black hole. That is why this picture looks like a tidal wave because the black hole is condeseing all this material into a certain spot. The spiral arms are just side effects created by the gravity. There is also what is called tidal debris, it is that white looking stuff coming out of the cloud and the arms. This debris helps stars form and makes a galaxy a galaxy.

Apod 4.6

                                                                                                                                Apod 4.6

This is a massive nearby spiral galaxy. IT is cataloged NGC 2841. It was taken by the Hubble and Subaru telescope with Roberto Colombari. This galaxy is a whopping 46 million light-years distant. It is just above the constellation Ursa Major which is also called the bear. It also has a messier object in it. At our point of view we can see that this galaxy has a bright center, that is basically a nucleus of the entire thing. This galaxy's spiral arms are not as long as some other ones. For example, the sombrero galaxy. But going back to this galaxy, it has a diameter of over 150,000 light years. This picture is also not in visible light. This is because this galaxy is most likely blocked by interstellar matter, which is dust and other elements. Nonetheless this galaxy has a quaint but elegant halo on it. This picture is just so stellar. It looks like an explosion is about to happen. Like all the matter is coming into one spot then rebounds with an explosion. Much like how a red supergiant explodes. It gets so heavy that it cant contain every thing and reaches the chandraskar mass and then rebounds. With a supern ova explosion.