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SPACEMAS DAY 25 ✨🪐🌎☄️☀️🌕
MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!! These last 25 days have been so fun! Thank you for coming along with me!!
Majestic on a cosmic scale, M100 is known as a grand design spiral galaxy. It’s a large galaxy of over 100 billion stars with well-defined spiral arms that is similar to the Milky Way Galaxy. Also one of the brightest members of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies, M100 (aka NGC 4321) is 56 million light-years away toward the constellation of Berenice's Hair (Coma Berenices). This Hubble Space Telescope image of M100 was taken with the Wide Field Camera 3 and accentuates bright blue star clusters and intricate winding dust lanes which are hallmarks of this class of galaxies. Studies of variable stars in M100 have played an important role in determining the size and age of the Universe.
Image Credit & Copyright: NASA, ESA, Hubble
#astronomy#space#science#universe#spacemas#day 25#christmas#merry christmas#galaxy#Virgo cluster#Milky Way#spiral#spiral galaxy#follow#like#reblog#the first star#the first starr#thefirststar#thefirststarr#nasa#apod#tumblr#blog#tumblr blog#space blog
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Markarian's Chain in the Virgo Cluster // sebaromano
Along the diagonal from top left to bottom right are: M86, the Eyes Galaxies, and NGC 4461. Other galaxies are also visible in this image, so click below the cut to see them identified!
Courtesy of astrometry.net.
#astronomy#astrophotography#galaxy cluster#virgo cluster#markarian's chain#galaxy#elliptical galaxy#lenticular galaxy#peculiar galaxy#interacting galaxies#eyes galaxies#messier#messier 86#M86#NGC 4406#NGC 4438#NGC 4435#Arp 120#NGC 4461#virgo
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Hubble's Constant and The Expanding Universe (II) - May 14th, 1996.
"In this century, the discovery that the Universe is expanding has produced a revolution in human thought about the cosmos. American astronomer Edwin Hubble played a major role in this profound discovery, coining the "Hubble constant". This single number describes the rate of cosmic expansion, relating the apparent recession velocities of external galaxies to their distance. Two groups of astronomers that tried to measure this fundamental constant using the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) reported conflicting results. One group, led by astronomer Allan Sandage, measured distances to galaxies using pulsating Cepheid variable stars and supernovae observed in galaxies like the Virgo Cluster spiral galaxy, NGC4639, shown above. This galaxy is the most distant one to which Cepheid-based determinations have been made and was also the site of a well-studied 1990 supernova. Their results favoured a relatively small Hubble constant (slow expansion rate) of about 55 kilometers per second per megaparsec, which means that galaxies one megaparsec (3 million light-years) distant appear to recede from us at a speed of 55 kilometers per second. A substantially faster expansion rate (larger Hubble constant) was reported by astronomer Wendy Freedman and collaborators, also based on HST data."
#nasa#space#cosmos#universe#astronomy#astrophysics#astrophotography#hubble's constant#virgo cluster#spiral galaxy
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Galaxies of the Virgo Cluster, Markarian's Chain
M84,M86 (Catalogue Messier)
Virgo Constellation
Distance: 65.000.000 ly
March 03, 2023 -Montcada i Reixac
#urbanastrophotography#urban astrophotography#cosmos#universe#galaxies#astrophotography#original photographers#virgo#cluster#virgo cluster#astro observations#astrophotos#astronomy
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The Milky Way Might be Part of an Even Larger Structure than Laniakea
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*M99
NGC 4254 by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope
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NGC 4731 !
A member of the Virgo cluster.
The spiral arms of NGC 4731 stretch out far beyond the confines of this close-up. These elongated arms are thought to result from gravitational interactions with other, nearby galaxies in the Virgo cluster.
ESA - European Space Agency / Hubble Space Telescope & NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration D. Thilker
#art#cosmos#cosmic#universe#blast#space#photography#NGC 4731#virgo#cluster#ESA#hubble space telescope
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The celestial object of the day is Spica!
The brightest star in the constellation of Virgo is actually a binary system! And the closest to the sun. It's formed by a blue giant and a variable star, they orbit so close together that they've gained an ellipsodal shape, similar to that of an egg
#First image credit: Marion Haligowski#Second image credit: by Fred Espenak#Aaand fun fact: thay orbit so close together that they are indistinguishable by telescope#so we need to use their spectra instead!#First original post of the blog (since all the others are Twitter reposts)#And first star too!!#Now only missing a black hole a neutron star and a galaxy cluster!!#astronomy#astrophotography#outer space#space#nasa#nasa photos#science#space exploration#space photography#celestial object of the day#Star#Stars#binary system#binary star systems#Virgo#Spica
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Early Galaxies
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Rumors of a Strange Universe
Credits: High-Z Supernova Search Team, HST, NASA
#reblog#apod#astronomy#sn 1994d#type 1a supernova#supernova#ngc 4526#lenticular galaxy#virgo cluster#virgo#hubble space telescope
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SPACEMAS DAY 22 ✨🪐🌎☄️☀️🌕
This floating ring is a galaxy, or at least part of one. This is the photogenic Sombrero Galaxy, one of the largest galaxies in the nearby Virgo Cluster of Galaxies. Typically, there’s a dark band of dust that obscures the mid-section of the Sombrero Galaxy in optical light. But in infrared light, it actually glows brightly. The featured image, digitally sharpened, shows this infrared glow. It was recorded by the orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope and then superposed in false-color on an existing image taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in visible light. The Sombrero Galaxy, also known as M104, spans about 50,000 light years across and lies 28 million light years away. M104 can be seen with a small telescope in the direction of the constellation Virgo.
Image Credit & Copyright: R. Kennicutt (Steward Obs.) et al., SSC, JPL, Caltech, NASA
#astronomy#space#science#universe#spacemas#day 22#sombrero#galaxy#sombrero galaxy#infrared#infrared light#Virgo#Virgo cluster#constellation#light years#optical light#optic#follow#like#reblog#the first star#the first starr#thefirststar#thefirststarr#nasa#apod#tumblr#blog#space blog#telescope
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The Virgo Cluster: Hot Plasma and Dark Matter - April 19th, 1996.
"This ROSAT image of the Virgo cluster of galaxies reveals a hot X-ray emitting plasma or gas with a temperature of 10-100 million degrees pervading the cluster. False colours have been used to represent the intensity of X-ray emission. The large area of X-ray emission, just below and left of center, is about 1 million light-years across. The giant elliptical galaxy M87, the biggest member of the cluster, is centered in that area while other cluster members are scattered around it. By adding up the amount of X-ray emitting gas, astronomers have found that its total mass is up to 5 times the total mass of the cluster galaxies themselves - yet all this matter still does not produce nearly enough gravity to keep the cluster from flying apart! Where is the unseen mass? Because galaxy clusters are the largest structures in the Universe, this mysterious dark matter must dominate the cosmos but its nature is still an open question."
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I know so many people struggling with BPD think they are hard to love, that they don't deserve it and that there will never be anyone who could match their love. None of you are too hard to love and every single one of you deserves the love you give out to those around you. So many of us have dated those who worked against us and our disorder, but there are people who WILL work with your disorder, who WILL give their best to understand you. Don't lose hope.
#bpd#eupd#borderline personality disorder#cluster b#mental illness#abandonment trauma#fear of abandonment#dating with bpd#wlw#sapphic#lesbian#I'm so grateful for my girlfriend#I never thought anyone would look at me with so much love and adoration#I love her so much#virgo x scorpio#jay#nyx#nyx rambles#seraphic melancholy
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you ever scroll past some sort of discourse that you didn't even know existed, and you have to take a second and realize that, while none of us are superior to others, some of us ARE much better at choosing which dumbass hills to die on? because I think sometimes you deserve to go 'huh. at least I'm not getting involved in all that'.
#well idk i'm still wasting time typing this out but that's marginally less embarrassing as an outsider than the people arguing about it#tw abuse mention in tags#so APPARENTLY!!!#enneagram mbti people are complaining about enneagram 7s being predisposed to being manipulative (?)#someone's like 'my sister was a 7w8 and neglects her kids' like jesus christ i don't think her enneagram is why she does that?#saying this as someone who LOOSELY AND UNSERIOUSLY enjoys mbti/zodiac/boxes to put my blorbos into:#these people are just doing the zodiac but for people who think they can armchair diagnose others they dislike with cluster b disorders#like congrats you made it worse and combined it with pseudopsychology to make some hellish ableism amalgamation#and it was already stupid to begin with but man you really took it up to 100#like we do realize that this is all fake. right. this isn't an actual psychological profile.#and taking it seriously has worrying implications? and you cannot judge someone based on anything but their behavior?#like again i get having fun with these things as little categories. my autistic ass loves sorting things into categories.#i will give my blorbos full star charts for 6 hours. yay categories.#but with the caveat that it's unserious and for funsies and not at all an actual representation of any human being?#like when i say 'i'm such a taurus lol' or whatever i'm not actually under the impression that it dictates my actual personality?#it's all confirmation bias anyways. people see what they want out of this kind of thing#like yeah i'm kinda lazy and i like food and self indulgence but. that's probably like half of the. idk. virgo population or whatever too#i think those are just things that most human people enjoy unless you're one of those super ambitious go-getters who never slows down#same goes for every other trait. curiosity? emotion? stubbornness? logic? those are just things that most people have in some capacity
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#nasa#james webb space telescope#sombrero galaxy#galaxy#MIRI#mid-infrared instrument#hubble space telescope#messier 104#m104#virgo constellation#pierre mechain#charles messier#star cluster#nebulae#celestial objects#stars#planets#spitzer space telescope#dust ring#astronomy#astronomers#milky way
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