It is interesting seeing past the central portion to see the complete rings on the back side. In the MIRI image, it looks like a special FX shot from some scifi where the explosion happens on a plane rather than a sphere.
"Unlike the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies, the Triangulum Galaxy does not appear to have a supermassive black hole at its center. This may be because the mass of a galaxy's central supermassive black hole correlates with the size of the galaxy's central bulge, and unlike the Milky Way and Andromeda, the Triangulum Galaxy is a pure disk galaxy with no bulge."
Triangulum is a spiral galaxy in our local group, perhaps bound to Andromeda or us.
Probably personal taste, but I still like Hubble's image more, really gives the disk some depth, as opposed to the flatter MIRI image.
Quick link to Hubble image:
https://science.nasa.gov/mission/hubble/science/explore-the-...
It is interesting seeing past the central portion to see the complete rings on the back side. In the MIRI image, it looks like a special FX shot from some scifi where the explosion happens on a plane rather than a sphere.
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I looked up Triangulum on a lark, and learned:
"Unlike the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies, the Triangulum Galaxy does not appear to have a supermassive black hole at its center. This may be because the mass of a galaxy's central supermassive black hole correlates with the size of the galaxy's central bulge, and unlike the Milky Way and Andromeda, the Triangulum Galaxy is a pure disk galaxy with no bulge."
Triangulum is a spiral galaxy in our local group, perhaps bound to Andromeda or us.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangulum_Galaxy
What was the impetus of you looking up Triangulum?
I see what you did there :-)
Spelled out for those who don't: 'sombrero' is Spanish for hat.
All galaxies are just space explosions
No, they are not.