Thursday, February 7, 2013

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com: Messier 106: Four-Armed Galaxy Dazzles In New Hubble PHOTO

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
Messier 106: Four-Armed Galaxy Dazzles In New Hubble PHOTO
Feb 7th 2013, 18:39

By: Clara Moskowitz
Published: 02/06/2013 05:31 PM EST on SPACE.com

Where most spiral galaxies have two twisting arms, a neighbor of the Milky Way is a four-armed monster. A new photo snapped by the Hubble Space Telescope, combined with observations by amateur astronomers, reveals these arms in stunning detail (click for HUGE).

The galaxy Messier 106 lies about 20 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major (the Great Bear). Hubble scientists released a video of the four-armed galaxy in addition to the new photo.


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