A grand design in a galactic festoon

A video from the Hubble Space Telescope website regarding the Messier galaxy. Video date- 29 Nov 07. Video source- http://www.spacetelescope.org/videos/html/heic0719a.html related news release- http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0719.html

'The galaxy Messier 74 lies at a distance of over 30 million light years. In this latest image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope the enormous swirls of this stunning spiral galaxy arc across space, adorned with glowing pink regions of hydrogen gas and lit by the pale blue light of millions of newly formed stars.'

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Science & Technology

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• hubble
• telescope
• hubblecast
• messier
• galaxy
• stars
• space
• universe

[mushroomagical]

@hartage Apparently, yes!

[hartage]

Hey is it true that there are more stars in the sky than grains of sand on earth? good video,like the touch screen gadget.

[eligarf]

wOw

WoW

wOw i can hardly believe my eyes, and my heART just yearns to know what created all of that!

two opposite spirals seem to form a heART. very very nice presentation. thank you so much!

from japan.

[superfisto]

5/5

More Hubblecasts please!

[RobotsAreHereNow]

too amazing to describe

[kurtilein3]

i like the 106 MB jpeg-image if the whirlpool galaxy.... you can really look at details, the resolution is amazing.

just google, you can download files of that size from the official hubble-homepages.

[KyotoMelody]

Fascinating! Thanks so much Steve.

[2bsirius]

Magnificent!