the porpoise galaxy is beautiful, its also maybe the elden beast’s inspiration or a beautiful coincidence
God-Rohit-Roy on
The Galaxies 🌌 are weird but they look all beautiful. 😍❤️
creepjax on
It’s weird to look at this and just think that those are all collections of millions of stars and systems and not just clouds of gas (mostly).
pogocyclez on
First one reminds me of Zero from Nightmare Before Christmas
aberroco on
I assume Lindsay-Shapley galaxy is in late merging stage? Another galaxy hit it in the direction of rotation, causing a separation of original galaxy’s arms? Though, I wonder how the core of second collided galaxy evolved, since it shouldn’t have merged yet, but it also isn’t seen on the image. Could it flew away stripped, as some globular cluster mini galaxy?
Fyrrys on
Porpoise looks more like s penguin and mayall’s looks like a mushroom
big_larry14 on
I love how fluid-like galaxies look. You can totally see how at a large scale, they behave like a liquid, but just at such a long time scale that we only live to see 1 frame of it.
FJkookser00 on
“Dr. Mayall.. what do we call this thing?”
“The- uh, the… uh… the… Object?”
Ladies and gentlemen, exhibit nine million, of why Scientists are bad at naming things.
Ozker on
How can some people look at this and think we’re the only ones. Can’t convince me that we’re alone
NOUNs-0u812 on
I hope we still have NASA Archive Picture of the day, it no longer goes back to 1995.
Good thing I saw all those already, this seems to be an older one as well.
Thank you NASA for all the launches I’ve seen here in Florida just outside my door.
May you continue to explore what technology gives you through engineers such as myself.
Be at peace and look to the stars once again, then dream the future already written in your head.
Now all we need is a design, I have a few, to get you started again.
SpaceX can’t have all the fun, our people are already awesome.
Thanks NASA
MrCurtiss on
Incredible to see these images of such distant galaxies. It makes me think about how immense the universe is and how much we still have to discover. Thanks for sharing these wonders!
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the porpoise galaxy is beautiful, its also maybe the elden beast’s inspiration or a beautiful coincidence
The Galaxies 🌌 are weird but they look all beautiful. 😍❤️
It’s weird to look at this and just think that those are all collections of millions of stars and systems and not just clouds of gas (mostly).
First one reminds me of Zero from Nightmare Before Christmas
I assume Lindsay-Shapley galaxy is in late merging stage? Another galaxy hit it in the direction of rotation, causing a separation of original galaxy’s arms? Though, I wonder how the core of second collided galaxy evolved, since it shouldn’t have merged yet, but it also isn’t seen on the image. Could it flew away stripped, as some globular cluster mini galaxy?
Porpoise looks more like s penguin and mayall’s looks like a mushroom
I love how fluid-like galaxies look. You can totally see how at a large scale, they behave like a liquid, but just at such a long time scale that we only live to see 1 frame of it.
“Dr. Mayall.. what do we call this thing?”
“The- uh, the… uh… the… Object?”
Ladies and gentlemen, exhibit nine million, of why Scientists are bad at naming things.
How can some people look at this and think we’re the only ones. Can’t convince me that we’re alone
I hope we still have NASA Archive Picture of the day, it no longer goes back to 1995.
Good thing I saw all those already, this seems to be an older one as well.
Thank you NASA for all the launches I’ve seen here in Florida just outside my door.
May you continue to explore what technology gives you through engineers such as myself.
Be at peace and look to the stars once again, then dream the future already written in your head.
Now all we need is a design, I have a few, to get you started again.
SpaceX can’t have all the fun, our people are already awesome.
Thanks NASA
Incredible to see these images of such distant galaxies. It makes me think about how immense the universe is and how much we still have to discover. Thanks for sharing these wonders!
There’s an old document of strange galaxies* like these called the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, or ARP for short. My favorite is [ARP 173](https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Arp/Arp44.html)
They aren’t weird, they’re unusual. “Weird” is a slur used by ignorant, narrow-minded people.
The scale when I sed pictures of galaxies always break my brain.
Some sources and image attributions would be nice too.
Third one looks like someone holding a Lightsaber.
First one looks like elden beast from elden ring.
We are definitely the only intelligent life here…
I always wondered if we took all the galaxies in the observable universe and created one huge galaxy, how massive would it be compared to empty space?
If the nr. 1 galaxy is not named after a shrimp I’m extremely disappointed.