It's one of the closest galaxies to ours (23 million light years away) and you could conceivably visit it, provided to lived hundreds of years in the future when society invariably finally gets around to having some decent goddamn spaceships.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Picture of the day
Via the Bad Astronomy blog and the Hubble space peeper comes this look at the M51 Whirlpool Galaxy, apparently named in reference to the fact that the galaxy resembles a rather famous jacuzzi and indoor swimming pool salesman named Frank Emfiftyone. I don't see the resemblance.
It's one of the closest galaxies to ours (23 million light years away) and you could conceivably visit it, provided to lived hundreds of years in the future when society invariably finally gets around to having some decent goddamn spaceships.
It's one of the closest galaxies to ours (23 million light years away) and you could conceivably visit it, provided to lived hundreds of years in the future when society invariably finally gets around to having some decent goddamn spaceships.
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