#m77

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The Squid Galaxy, M77 // Sergey Trudolyubov

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Ruger M77 MkII - .270 Winchester

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cosmic fingerprint: magnetic fields

_magnetic fields location in order: Whirlpool galaxy/ the Orion Nebula/ M77 galaxy/ our galaxy's core/ Milky Way galaxy/ cr. SOFIA

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Agostino Iacurci Pot n°7, 2018 Works on paper 34 x 24 cm 13 3/8 x 9 7/16 inches Courtesy M77.

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M77

“Magnetic fields in NGC 1068, or M77, are shown as streamlines over a visible light and X-ray composite image of the galaxy from the Hubble Space Telescope, NuSTAR or the Nuclear Spectroscopic Array, and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. The magnetic fields align along the entire length of the massive spiral arms — 24,000 light years across (0.8 kiloparsecs) — implying that the gravitational forces that created the galaxy’s shape are also compressing its magnetic field. This supports the leading theory of how the spiral arms are forced into their iconic shape known as “density wave theory.” SOFIA, the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, studied the galaxy using far-infrared light (89 microns) to reveal facets of its magnetic fields that previous observations using visible and radio telescopes could not detect.

Image Credit: NASA/SOFIA; NASA/JPL-Caltech/Roma Tre Univ.”

Image and text from NASA.

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

M77 Chapter 4: PMI TMI

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M77 (left) and NGC 1055 (right)

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An image I made of my shep for some RP. Made a cool black leather outfit.