Friday 20 October 2023

Messier109 , NGC3992 - A barred spiral Galaxy in the Constellation Ursa Major - The Great Bear.

 

Messier109, telescope.org Open Science Laboratories, Open University, COAST Robotic telescope with BVR filters on Mount Teide

Location chart credit: Astrometry.net
" I am fond of 'barred galaxies like Messier109 over 65 light years distant in Ursa Major. By all accounts our home galaxy, The Milky Way, is a barred galaxy and must look very much like M109 if viewed from a planet orbiting a star in M109. I love it when life becomes  'a serpent eating its own tail'" - Joel Cairo CEO of the Jodrell Plank Observatory.


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