When the lamp is shattered, The light in the dust lies dead. When the cloud is scattered, The rainbow’s glory is shed. These words, which open Shelley’s poem “When the Lamp is Shattered,” employ ...
This image of the ring galaxy NGC 660, captured with the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph on the Fredrick C. Gillett Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawai’i, was obtained in August of 2012. The ...
This is galaxy NGC 660, located some twenty million light-years away. It’s a very rare type of galaxy known as a polar galaxy, where the vast majority of the galaxy is located at a right angle to its ...
A Gemini Legacy image showing two galaxies colliding to create a polar ring galaxy is poetry in motion, telescope staff say. “What you see in this new Gemini Legacy image, then, is not a single ...
When the lamp is shattered, The light in the dust lies dead. When the cloud is scattered, The rainbow's glory is shed. These words, which open Shelley's poem "When the Lamp is Shattered," employ ...
Polar-ring galaxies are peculiar objects. Astronomers have found only a handful of them, so not much is known about their origins. Most have an early-type spiral system, called a lenticular galaxy, as ...
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