what are your favorite galaxies? either aesthetically or for other more scientific reasons.how can something so staggeringly vast be so pleasant on the eye? all answers welcome here
>>16813007We don't know if galaxies are real or just photos.
>>16813010I was looking at a galaxy just last night. this one.its like right there dude.
>>16813014I know a guy who draws space pictures for a living. You wouldn't believe the stories I heard from him.
>>16813017do tell
>>16813007NGC-1427A, its irregular geometric configuration and proportions have long intrigued me, in spite of its morphological frequency of occurence, which can be estimated to be in the several billions across the cosmos, I continue to maintain a sense of exoticity toward it, which exists comparatively and relatively to other morphologies.
>implying any galaxy is beating the Sombrero Gigachad
M82 is the correct answer. It has a huge wind, thought to be driven by a burst of star formation. >>16813050That's AI or shopped.
>>16813052
My favorite is the Sombrero galaxy because of how pretty it looks
>>16813052>That's AI or shopped.so like everything else released by NASA?Space is fake AND gay
we have a winner
NGC 1398. a galaxy within a galaxy
With the Hubble space telescope it is possible to see 200 billion galaxies. Each galaxy has something like 100 billion stars. So that makes 20 000 billion squared stars altogether.
>>16813102
>>16813120>don't talk to me or my sons ever again
There was a galaxy pic that I used as profile pic a long time ago. I never found it again because it's hard to explain, it's a somewhat spherical galaxy and... it has stars and... it looks like a galaxy. Watching thread just in case.
Trade Mark Milky Way.
>>16813102it winked at me
>>16813007>>16813014>>16813049>>16813050I like Triangulum
>>16815868shit, forgot picture
>which fake nasa picture is the bestmight as well compare anime girlsneither is real
>>16815890you got lost on your way to /x/?you can literally observe the closer ones with consumer grade telescope