Posted on Jan 23, 2023
APOD: 2023 January 23 – The Colliding Spiral Galaxies of Arp 274
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Good morning, Rallypoint, and welcome to the January 23rd edition of Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD): "The Colliding Spiral Galaxies of Arp 274." We reach waaaay into the way-back machine this morning with a re-processed April 2009 image of three galaxies that lie far from Earth towards the constellation Virgo. How far? 400 million light years.
More recent data (2017) suggests that the three galaxies may not be interacting at all. Redshift measurements of the three galaxies give these radial velocity values, from left to right: 7483, 8654, and 7618 km/s. The relatively high redshift for the center galaxy means that it is much farther away - about 65 million light years (20 megaparsecs) behind the other two galaxies. Thus, the center galaxy is likely a background object.
More recent data (2017) suggests that the three galaxies may not be interacting at all. Redshift measurements of the three galaxies give these radial velocity values, from left to right: 7483, 8654, and 7618 km/s. The relatively high redshift for the center galaxy means that it is much farther away - about 65 million light years (20 megaparsecs) behind the other two galaxies. Thus, the center galaxy is likely a background object.
APOD: 2023 January 23 – The Colliding Spiral Galaxies of Arp 274
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Maj William W. 'Bill' Price good morning my friend, and good to see you on the RP net January 23, 2023 . I have said it many times before, yet I will say it again, "nobody does it better from above". Thank you for sharing Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD): "The Colliding Spiral Galaxies of Arp 274."
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel SSG Michael Noll Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen Cpl Vic Burk SGT Charlie Lee] Sgt (Join to see) SFC David Reid, M.S, PHR, SHRM-CP, DTM PV2 Larry Sellnow SPC Gary C. SPC (Join to see) Amn Dale Preisach SGT Ruben Lozada 1SG Paul Ayotte CPT Richard Trione SFC Ralph E Kelley 1SG Patrick Burke PV2 Scott Mollette SGT Gerald “Jerry” Harrell Lt Col Charlie Brown
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Our previous assumptions were wrong. I suspect with better imaging and new ways of managing data we are going to find more of this.
Good morning Maj William W. 'Bill' Price
Good morning Maj William W. 'Bill' Price
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