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Photo #1 (May 2008)
THE ARMS OF NGC 7424
The choice is always ours.
Then let me choose the longest art, the hard promethean way,
cherishingly to tend and feed and fan
the inward fire,
whose small precious flame, kindled or quenched,
creates
the noble or ignoble men we are,
the worlds we live in,
and the very fates;
our bright or muddy star.
- Aldous Huxley
Credit: VIMOS / VLT, European Southern Observatory
The grand, winding arms are almost mesmerizing in this face-on view of NGC 7424, a spiral galaxy with a prominent central bar. About 40 million light-years distant in the headlong constellation Grus, this island universe is also about 100,000 light-years across making it remarkably similar to our own Milky Way. Following along the winding arms, many bright bluish clusters of massive young stars can be found. The star clusters themselves are several hundred light-years in diameter. And while massive stars are born in the arms of NGC 7424, they also die there. Notably, this galaxy was home to a powerful stellar explosion, supernova SN 2001ig, which faded before this deep image was recorded.
Ours is not the only galaxy in this universe. somewhere out there are other stars and planets with life developing and evolving upon them. Yet those gifted with far vision tell us that our blue planet is very special. Gaia deserves to be honored and preserved.
- D.B.
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