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Haunting New Hubble Photo Reveals The Wisps of a Dying Galaxy – ScienceAlert
From the smallest microbe to the mightiest oak, death is as true for above as it is for below, even for the mightiest galaxies.
From the smallest microbe to the mightiest oak, death is as true for above as it is for below, even for the mightiest galaxies.
The process, however, is not a quick one. A haunting new Hubble photo of the galaxy NGC 1947 demonstrates this well: Even from a distance of around 45.4 million light-years away (in the southern constellation of Dorado), we can see that the galaxy is slowly on the decline.
The clue lies in the dust and gas. A galaxy in the prime of its life will be filled with the stuff,…
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