"Triangulum Hubble Mosaic."

geckzilla, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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"The Milky Way’s Unusual Twin in Pegasus."

International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA Image Processing: J. Miller (International Gemini Observatory/NSF NOIRLab), M. Rodriguez (International Gemini Observatory/NSF NOIRLab) & M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab), CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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"Galactic Twin NGC 6744."

Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA Image processing: R. Colombari & M. Zamani (NSF NOIRLab), CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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M81.

Ken Crawford, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Using the "Our Galaxy" app, we show where the globular cluster NGC 6355 is located in our galaxy. The cluster is deeply embedded in the galactic bulge and is heavily obscured from our point of view. We turn on a wire frame rendering of the bulge so the cluster can be better seen.

The free "Our Galaxy" app can be found at otherwise.com.

youtu.be/hGBZmmDJa_c

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Where is NGC 6355?

Using the "Our Galaxy" app, we show where the globular cluster NGC 6355 is located in our galaxy. The cluster is deeply embedded in the galactic bulge and i...

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I had a hard time picking the piece I wanted to share first, but I think I decided on a good one
Say hi to Galactic Cat!

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NASA's Spitzer Spots a Perfectly Sideways Galaxy

Galaxy NGC 5866 lies 44 million light-years from Earth and has a diameter of roughly 60,000 light-years — a little more than half the diameter of our own Milky Way galaxy. From our viewpoint, NGC 5866 is oriented almost exactly edge-on, yielding most of its structural features invisible.

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NASA/JPL-Caltech

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