Friday, October 21, 2011

Galaxy on Edge

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This is the Needle Galaxy, known for its thin shape. It can be found in the constellation Coma Berenices. It has an amazing size of 40 million lightyears and spans 100,000 lightyears. It is amazing haow much technology is advanced letting us view so far into space. One day maybe we will be able to view planets from other galaxies. This picture is truely amazing. It is so cool to be able to see so far past our own galaxy.

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