What’s The Closest Active Galaxy To Planet Earth? That Would Be Centaurus A, Only 11 Million Light-years

Enjoying the Milky Way with the oldest trees on Earth at the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest

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MAR MAR CHAN

YES MY CHILD

griffin as tarzan fiona as Jane

He peels a banana and itches his stomach

AAAAAAAAAAUHAUGHAUGHAUGHAAAAAAAAAAA he says

GRUNTING AND POINTING FIONA CONFUSED

Sharpest View of the Andromeda Galaxy, Ever.

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the sharpest and biggest image ever taken of the Andromeda galaxy — a whopping 69,536 x 22,230 pixels. The enormous image is the biggest Hubble image ever released and shows over 100 million stars and thousands of star clusters embedded in a section of the galaxy’s pancake-shaped disc stretching across over 40,000 light-years.

Use the ZOOM TOOL to view in full detail.

(WARNING: May cause existential crisis)

oh my! says fiona

Hey little mama JOHNNY BRAVO SOUNDS

A Shipwreck under the Milky Way Photographed by Mikko Lagerstedt

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Located about 27 million light years away lies Messier 63, better known as the Sunflower Galaxy due to its glowing yellow center. For galaxies like Messier 63 the winding arms shine bright because of the presence of recently formed, blue–white giant stars, readily seen in this Hubble image. (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA)