After a complex day, last night I managed to escape to a reasonably dark place, and take my mind away from some of the worries that living people tend to have while alive..
Right through most of the stars that make our own galaxy, we occasionally get a glimpse of other galaxies lying around.. This particular one, NGC6946, is "face on", easily displaying its spiral arms, and is one of those that are most "near-by" our own Milky Way galaxy. In the same picture there is an Open Cluster of stars, NGC6939, that resides in our galaxy. Lots of scattered stars are equally visible, belonging to a region just 11 degrees away from the plane of our galaxy, in the South-West corner of constellation Cepheus.
Sunday, July 31, 2011
A Galaxy through another one
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