Teacher, astronomer, political scientist and father. I wrote a book once: http://evl.link/df
Alberta, Canada
Jason Nishiyama
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M63 is a flocculant spiral galaxy located about 29 Mly away in the constellation of Canes Venatici.
Flocculant spirals tend to not have strong spiral structures looking "fluffy" instead. #astronomy
Friday needed the air conditioner on. Now the furnace is running... aaah Calgary weather....
NGC 7000, the North America Nebula, is an emission nebula located about 2600 ly away in the constellation of Cygnus.
What forms the dark part of the nebula (making the "Gulf of Mexico") is a dark nebula, L935, about 1900ly away which blocks NGC7000's light. #astronomy
M33 is a spiral galaxy located about 2.9 Mly away in the constellation of Triangulum.
It is the third largest spiral galaxy in our Local Group behind M31 and our own Galaxy. #astronomy
M110 is an elliptical galaxy located about 2.7 Mly away in the constellation of Andromeda.
M110 is a satellite galaxy of the large spiral galaxy M31, the Andromeda galaxy. Many large galaxies, even our own, have smaller satellite galaxies. #astronomy
M76 is a planetary nebula located about 2500 ly away in the constellation of Perseus.
One of only 4 PN on Messier's list of non-comet fuzzy things, it is also one of the faintest objects on the list. #astronomy
NGC 2903 is a barred spiral galaxy located about 30 Mly away in the constellation of Leo.
It is a field galaxy, that is not belonging to a galaxy group, and hence is gravitationally isolated. It is a member of the Virgo supercluster however. #astronomy
M96 is a spiral galaxy located about 31 Mly away in the constellation of Leo.
M96 is about the same size and mass as our own Milky Way Galaxy. #astronomy
A UCP appointees to the weird Round 2 riding boundary panel lobbied the actual boundary commission to impose a hyper-ruralized seat map for Calgary with more hybrid ridings than the widely criticized minority report.
Darwin Durnie's submission, page 65-262: www.elections.ab.ca/uploads/EBC-...
Heading for the Carina Nebula 🚀
The massive stars in the interior of this cosmic bubble emit intense radiation that causes the surrounding gas to glow. By contrast, other regions of the nebula contain dark pillars of dust cloaking newborn stars.
https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1828/
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