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PIX4610710: Galaxies M105, NGC 3384 and NGC 3389 in the Lion - Galaxies M105, NGC 3384 and NGC 3389 in Leo - These galaxies belong to the group of Leo 1 galaxies. On the right is the elliptical galaxy M105, type E1, located about 37 million years ago - light from the Earth; on its left, the galaxy NGC 3384, down, NGC 3389, a galaxy in the background. M105 (right) is a type E1 elliptical galaxy and the brightest member of the Leo I galaxy grouping. The entire group is about 37 million light - years away. Also visble are galaxies NGC 3384 (left), which is part of the Leo I group, and NGC 3389 (bottom), which is a more distant background galaxy / Bridgeman Images
PIX4610733: Spiral Galaxy NGC 3521 in the Lion - NGC 3521 spiral galaxy in Leo - NGC 3521 is a spiral galaxy located about 35 million years ago - light from Earth / Bridgeman Images
PIX4611016: Barree spiral galaxy M109 in the Great Bear - Barred spiral galaxy M109 in Ursa Major - M109, NGC3992, is a barree spiral galaxy located about 45 million years ago - light from Earth. The barred spiral galaxy M109 (NGC 3992) is located at about 45 million light years from Earth / Bridgeman Images
PIX4611052: Spiral galaxy seen by the slice NGC 4013 in the Great Bear - Edge - on view of NGC 4013 spiral galaxy in Ursa Major - The spiral galaxy Ngc 4013 is located 55 million years - light in the constellation Big Bear. A bright star seems to radiate from this galaxy; in reality, this star is much closer and belongs to our galaxy. Edge - on view of NGC 4013 spiral galaxy located about 55 million light years in Ursa Major. In its center, the very bright star is very much closer to us than it appears and belongs to our galaxy / Bridgeman Images
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Spiral Galaxy M31 in Andromede - Detail - The southern arm of the Andromeda galaxy, M31 - View of the southern arm of the Andromede galaxy. Visible to the naked eye, the Andromede galaxy is located about 2 million years away from Earth. In this image obtained in La Palma, one of its two satellite galaxies is visible to the north-east: M32 (NGC 221). Also visible is the star cloud NGC 206, low centre, one of the largest star formations regions of our local group. Like the lactee path, the Andromede galaxy belongs to the local group, which consists of about thirty galaxies. M31 is the finest and nearest large spiral galaxy in the sky, about 2 million light years away. Despite its distance it can be seen as an elongated streak with the unaided eye in northern skies and in a large telescope under good conditions it is clearly resolved into stars and star - forming regions. This picture shows less than half the galaxy but the spiral structure, star clouds and dust lanes are evident. Also here is one of M31's close companions, the compact elliptical galaxy M32 (NGC 221), (top). M31 and its companions belong to the Local Group of about 30 galaxies that includes the Milky Way and M31 as its most massive members as well as the Magellanic Clouds.
This picture is about half a degree across and is of the same region as the frontispiece in Hubble's famous book “” The Realm of the Nebulae”” (Harvard UP, 1936). In his illustration Hubble points out a Cepheid variable star, a globular cluster, a star cloud and open cluster as typical ingredients of a spiral galaxy. The star cloud is so conspicuous that it has its own New General Catalogue number, NGC 206 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4608970: Andromede Galaxy (M31) view in ultraviolet - The Andromeda galaxy seen in UV - This ultraviolet image is a mosaic of 10 images obtained by the GALEX satellite in September and October 2003. Regions of blue stars, young, warm and massive stars are clearly visible in the arms, where the stars are formed; in the center near the core, colder, orange-white, much older stars. The stars visible in the foreground belong to our Lactee Way. The GALEX observation of the large galaxy in Andromeda, Messier 31, was performed during September and October 2003. The image is a mosaic of 10 separate GALEX images combining the Far UV (colored blue) and Near UV detector (colored red) images together to make a color image of the sky almost six full moons across. The Andromeda galaxy is the most massive in the local group of galaxies, which includes our Milky Way, and is the nearest large galaxy to our own. The GALEX image shows blue regions of young, hot, high mass stars tracing out the spiral arms where star formation is occurring, and the central orange - white “” bulge””” of old, cooler stars formed long ago. The red stars in this image are foreground stars in our own Milky Way galaxy / Bridgeman Images
PIX4609071: Stars in the spiral galaxy NGC 253 - Stars in galaxy NGC 253 - NGC 253 is the brightest galaxy of the Sculptor's group, group of galaxies closest to the Local Group. It is about 13 million light years away. Here, the Hubble space telescope photographed the different star populations of this galaxy. NGC 253 is a large, almost edge - on spiral galaxy, and is one of the nearest galaxies beyond our local neighborhood of galaxies. In this image taken by Hubble space telescope thousands of individual stars are resolved in this galaxy located 13 million light years away / Bridgeman Images
PIX4609091: Spiral Galaxy NGC 253 in Sculptor - Spiral galaxy NGC 253 in Sculptor - NGC 253 is the brightest galaxy of the Sculptor's group, the closest galaxy group to the Local Group. It is about 12 million light years away. Image made with a telescope 61 cm in diameter. NGC 253 is a spiral galaxy (about 12 million light years away), a member of a small group straggling across the southern constellation of Sculptor. It appears elongated because we see it almost edge - on. NGC 253 is a prototypical starburst galaxy.This galaxy is also one of the dustiest galaxies known. Despite the obscuration, two spiral arms and many bluish clusters of stars can be seen around the edge of the galaxy. Image taken with a 24 - inch telescope / Bridgeman Images
PIX4609102: Stars in the spiral galaxy NGC 253 - Stars in galaxy NGC 253 - NGC 253 is the brightest galaxy of the Sculptor's group, group of galaxies closest to the Local Group. It is about 13 million light years away. Here, the Hubble space telescope photographed the different star populations of this galaxy. NGC 253 is a large, almost edge - on spiral galaxy, and is one of the nearest galaxies beyond our local neighborhood of galaxies. In this image taken by Hubble space telescope thousands of individual stars are resolved in this galaxy located 13 million light years away / Bridgeman Images
PIX4609126: Spiral Galaxy NGC 253 - NGC 253 is the brightest galaxy in the Sculptor's group, the closest galaxy group to the Local Group. It is about 13 million light years away. Composite image obtained from the Hubble sptial telescope, the Subaru, VLT and the 1.5m Danish telescopes. NGC 253 is a large, almost edge - on spiral galaxy, and is one of the nearest galaxies beyond our local neighborhood of galaxies. In this image taken by Hubble space telescope thousands of individual stars are resolved in this galaxy located 13 million light years away.Multipanel Mosaic and Composite from Four Data Sources 8.2 Meter Subaru Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope European Southern Observatory (VLT and Danish 1.5M / Bridgeman Images
PIX4609178: Spiral galaxy NGC 300 in the Sculptor - Spiral galaxy NGC 300 in Sculptor - Located about 7 million years ago - light from Earth, the spiral galaxy NGC 300 belongs to the Sculptor's group. It appears to us as a great object in the sky since its apparent diameter is almost that of the full moon / Bridgeman Images
PIX4609405: Spiral galaxy M74 in Pisces - Spiral galaxy M74 in Pisces - Image of the spiral galaxy M74 (NGC 628) obtained by the Hubble space telescope in 2003 and 2005. This galaxy is about 80,000 light years and is approximately 30 million light years apart. This image shows in detail the arms of this galaxy or nebulae and clusters of young stars appear in numbers. NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the nearby spiral galaxy M74 (NGC 628), is a composite of Advanced Camera for Surveys' data taken in 2003 and 2005. A small segment of this image used data from the Canada - France - Hawaii Telescope and the Gemini Observatory to fill in a region that Hubble did not image. M74 is located roughly 32 million light - years away in the direction of the constellation Pisces, the Fish. It is the dominant member of a small group of about half a dozen galaxies, the M74 galaxy group. In its entirety, it is estimated that M74 is home to about 100 billion stars, making it slightly smaller than our Milky Way. Its perfectly symmetrical spiral arms emanate from the central nucleus and are dotted with clusters of young blue stars and glowing pink regions of ionized hydrogen (hydrogen atoms that have lost their electrons). These regions of star formation show an excess of light at ultraviolet wavelengths. Tracing along the spiral arms are winding dust lanes that also begin very near the galaxy's nucleus and follow along the length of the spiral arms / Bridgeman Images
PIX4609424: Spiral galaxy M74 in Pisces - Spiral galaxy M74 in Pisces - Image of the spiral galaxy M74 (NGC 628). This galaxy is about 80,000 light years and is 30 million light years apart. Viewed face on, as it appeared about 30 million years ago, M74 is considered to be one of the most photogenic spiral galaxies in the sky. The galaxy is rich in young bright blue stars and glowing red regions of dust and molecular hydrogen where new stars are being created. M74, however, is quite camera shy - it has a low surface brightness that makes it challenging for both visual observers and astrophotographers to see it's entire form. The Chandra X - Ray observatory, discovered M74 to be the home of a super massive black hole, tucked away in one of it's outer arms. This black hole is one of the largest ever discovered and has the mass of over 10,000 suns / Bridgeman Images
PIX4609453: Spiral galaxy NGC 772 in Belier - Spiral galaxy NGC 772 in Aries - NGC 772 (Arp 78) is a spiral galaxy located at a distance of more than 100 million years - light. A small spheroidal galaxy on the left, NGC 770, is responsible for elongating one of its arms by gravitational attraction. NGC 772 (also known as Arp 78) is spiral galaxy approximately 100 million light year away. It has a small companion, NGC 770 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4609474: Galaxy NGC 891 in Andromede - Edge - on spiral galaxy NGC 891 in Andromeda - Spiral galaxy seen by the slice located at a distance of 10 million years - light. This image was obtained with the Isaac Newton 2.5m telescope of La Palma. If we could view the Milky Way from a distance of about 30 million light years it would look something like NGC 891. But galaxies that look like this are quite rare because the chance alignment of the thin disk of a spiral galaxy with our line of sight is unusual. A few degrees either side of its orientation and NGC 891 would be just another highly inclined spiral galaxy. From this unusual vantage point we can see in NGC 891 the surprising narrowness of the obscuring dust lane, a dark, slightly irregular band across the galaxy. We also see that it is yellowish, confirming that it is dust, which absorbs blue light, as in the Milky Way. Also similar to the Milky Way is the prominent central 'bulge' corresponding to the rich star clouds in Sagittarius. However, unlike the Milky Way, NGC 891 is relatively isolated, undisturbed by neighboring galaxies. If this was a distant view the Milky Way, the dust - lane would probably be distorted by interaction with the Magellanic Clouds, which would be prominent in the picture / Bridgeman Images
PIX4609486: Galaxy NGC 891 in Andromede - Edge - on spiral galaxy NGC 891 in Andromeda - Spiral galaxy seen by the slice located at a distance of 30 million years - light. Image obtained with a telescope of 50 cm, 20 hours of installation. Located about 30 million light years from Earth, NGC 891 is one of the most photographed edge - on spiral galaxies in the northern skies. This image represents slightly over twenty hours of total exposure through a twenty inch Ritchey - Chretien telescope with a SBIG STL - 11000 eleven mega - pixel camera / Bridgeman Images
PIX4609513: Galaxy NGC 891 in Andromede - Edge - on spiral galaxy NGC 891 in Andromeda - Spiral galaxy seen by the slice located at a distance of 10 million years - light. Image obtained on October 9, 2008 with a telescope measuring 61 cm in diameter. Located about 10 million light years from Earth, NGC 891 is one of the most photographed edge - on spiral galaxies in the northern skies. Image taken on October 9 2008 with a 24 - inch telescope / Bridgeman Images
PIX4609526: Galaxy NGC 891 in Andromede - Edge - on spiral galaxy NGC 891 in Andromeda - Spiral galaxy seen by the slice located at a distance of 10 million years - light. Image obtained with a 50 cm telescope. Located about 10 million light years from Earth, NGC 891 is one of the most photographed edge - on spiral galaxies in the northern skies / Bridgeman Images
PIX4609542: Spiral Galaxy NGC 925 in Triangle - Spiral galaxy NGC 925 in Triangulu / Bridgeman Images
PIX4609596: Spiral galaxy M77 in the Whale - Active galaxy M77 (NGC 1068) in Cetus - This active galaxy is the typical example of a galaxy of Seyfert II. M77 (NGC 1068) has an active core and houses a massive black hole. She is the object of intense star formation in her spiral arms. NGC 1068 is around 50 million years of light from Earth. Image obtained with a telescope of 50 cm and more than 17 hours of installation. Located about 60 million light years from Earth, towards the direction of the constellation named Cetus, is an enormous galaxy, much larger than our own, that is surrounded by a even larger cloud of obscuring dust. M77 (NGC 1068) has a powerful jet pouring copious amounts of material into inter - galactic space at enormous speed. This galaxy is a seyfert II type with an active nucleus. It is now believed that the source of this commotion is a super - massive black hole, ten million times more massive than our Sun, in the process of absorbing material that has ventured too close / Bridgeman Images
PIX4609773: Spiral galaxy NGC 1313 in the Reticule - The starburst galaxy NGC 1313 - NGC 1313 is a galaxy located about 15 million years ago - light. Intense star formations are observed. Image made with Siding Spring's 3.9m telescope. In visible light, NGC 1313 seems dominated by scattered patches of star formation which give our picture a rather ragged appearance. The clouds of bluish stars seem to have burst into existence at random, without the normal trigger gravitational interaction or even a distinct spiral to prompt them. Star formation seems to have occurred in a series of irregular, self-sustaining bursts. However, a very deep image shows that the outer parts of galaxy are also very disturbed. Seen with a radio telescope, the galaxy is rich in hydrogen, the raw material of stars, and the gas circulates around the centre of the galaxy in a well ordered way, apparently hardly affected by the starburst activity or other irregularities that so colour our visual impression of this unusual galaxy. NGC 1313 is at a distance of about 15 million light years, close enough for some of its brightest stars to be seen as individuals / Bridgeman Images
PIX4609909: Barred spiral galaxy NGC 1398 in the Furnace: The galaxy NGC 1398 is located at a distance of about 65 million light years. Image obtained by the VLT telescope. This galaxy is located in the constellation of Fornax (The Furnace), approximately 65 million light-years away. This image comprises data gathered by the Focal Reducer/low dispersion Spectrograph 2 (FORS2) instrument, mounted on Eso's Very Large Telescope (VLT) at Paranal Observatory, Chile. It shows NGC 1398 in striking detail, from the dark lanes of dust mottling its spiral arms, through to the pin-hued star-forming regions sprinkled throughout its outer regions. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4609955: Barree spiral galaxy NGC 1672 in Dorado - Barred spiral galaxy NGC 1672 in Dorado - The barree spiral galaxy NGC 1672 is located 60 million years - light in the southern constellation of Dorado. Intense star formations are observed and many clusters of young stars are visible in the arms of the galaxy. NGC 1672 is a galaxy of Seyfert, whose core houses a supermassive black hole / Bridgeman Images
PIX4609965: Barree spiral galaxy NGC 1672 in Dorado - Barred spiral galaxy NGC 1672 in Dorado - The barree spiral galaxy NGC 1672 is located 60 million years - light in the southern constellation of Dorado. Intense star formations are observed and many clusters of young stars are visible in the arms of the galaxy. NGC 1672 is a galaxy of Seyfert, whose core houses a supermassive black hole / Bridgeman Images
PIX4610026: Galaxy NGC 2336 - Spiral galaxy NGC 2336 - NGC 2336 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Giraffe, about 100 million years old - light. Barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation of Camelopardalis, about 100 million light years away / Bridgeman Images
DSP3593780: View from city walls of Mohammed Rakhim Khan Madrassah (left) and Kalta Minar (right), Ichan Kala Old City, Kizilkum desert, Khiva, Khwarezm region, Uzbekistan (photo) / Bridgeman Images
DSP3593781: View from city walls, Ichan Kala Old City, Kizilkum desert, Khiva, Khwarezm region, Uzbekistan (photo) / Bridgeman Images
DSP3594330: Morocco, Looking past clothes for sale in narrow passageway to man walking up alley, Fez (photo) / Bridgeman Images
GRL3606295: View of the Southern wall with architectonical perspectives and landscapes, Villa Pallavicino delle Peschiere, Genoa, Liguria, Italy (photo) / Bridgeman Images
GRL3606319: View of the Chapel with frescoes by Lorenzo de Ferrari and the statue by Pierre Puget, Palazzo Carrega-Cataldi (former Palazzo Tobia Pallavicini), Genoa, Liguria, Italy (photo) / Bridgeman Images
GRL3606345: View of the frescoes with scenes with the Life of Mary by Giulio Benso, Basilica della Santissima Annunziata del Vastato, Genoa, Liguria, Italy (photo) / Bridgeman Images
GRL3606350: View of the dome with frescoes by Giovanni Battista Carlone, Basilica della Santissima Annunziata del Vastato, Genoa, Liguria, Italy (photo) / Bridgeman Images
