Other galactic objects

 

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Eta Carina

I found this picture on the web.
To be honest, I really don´t know what it is! :-) But it looks nice, doesn´t it?

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Quasar 3C 273

This Quasar consists of two parts. It is to be found at a distance of 2 billion light-years. It expands with a velocity of 50.000 km per second and shines 400 times brighter than the Milky Way. A Quasar is a source of strong radiation, but apart from that only few is known about this phenomenon by now.

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Black Hole in NGC 7052 I

Object 7052 is a elliptic galaxie in the constellation Vulpecula at a distance of 191 million light-years. The mass of this black hole amounts to 300 millions times the mass of our own sun.

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Detail shot of the same object. You can see the black hole´s rotating disc of dust in the centre of the galaxie. The diameter is 3700 light-years. The mass of the disc is only 1 % of the mass of the hole itself, but it is enought to build 3 millions stars similar to the sun.

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Black Hole in NGC 4261

Another black hole in the center of galaxy NGC 4261. Only the gas that falls into the black hole because of the enormous gravity is visible. The picture was made by the Hubble Telescope.

 

 

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