Re: [QUESTION] Yo, John K!





Ray Haddad wrote:
Have a look at this photo of the month:
http://www.cfht.hawaii.edu/HawaiianStarlight/

In the bottom third of the photo there is a sort of spiral galaxy
that looks as if it's surrounded by a bubble. Is that something in
front of a galaxy or is it really a galaxy in a bubble?
--
Ray

See:
http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v426/n6964/images/426236a-f1.2.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v426/n6964/fig_tab/426236a_F1.html&h=292&w=600&sz=22&hl=en&start=14&um=1&tbnid=4ZHD5AfCyZHtJM:&tbnh=66&tbnw=135&prev=/images%3Fq%3DPerseus%2Bcluster%2Bof%2Bgalaxies%2B%2B%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN

And
http://heritage.stsci.edu/2003/14/ngc1275/i0314bx.jpg

and
http://images.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/HIGHLIGHT/2002/cr.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/HIGHLIGHT/2002/highlight0203_e.html&h=667&w=670&sz=327&hl=en&start=43&um=1&tbnid=ZnkuYXlG7vLerM:&tbnh=137&tbnw=138&prev=/images%3Fq%3DPerseus%2Bcluster%2Bof%2Bgalaxies%2B%2B%26start%3D40%26ndsp%3D20%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN

Sometimes it is a mass of interstellar dust, sometimes it is a
nebulathat is between us and the galaxy. Sometimes the galaxy itself
has a gas cloud that is part of it.

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