Oct23

Star Size Comparison

Posted by , in Astronomy


And you taught you were the centre of the universe! Enjoy the video and picture below. I think it is amazing.

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The nucleus of the Whirlpool Galaxy (M51). The Cross marks the location of the black hole at the center of the galaxy. The cross was first interpreted as two dustrings circling the nucleus. It was later determined to simply be foreground dust lanes silhouetted by the active nucleus. Bright ionization cones can be seen extending perpendicular to the largest dust feature.

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