Friday, 8 January 2016

NGC 2903 Barred Galaxy

NGC 2903 is a beautiful, faint barred spiral galaxy similar to our own Milky Way Galaxy but about half the size in the constellation of Leo. NGC 2905 is a bright star cloud within this galaxy.
Its about 25 million light-years away.
That sounds a long way away and it is.

If you could travel at 671 million miles per hour ( the speed of light) it would take 25 million years to get to this Galaxy which is about 80,000 light years across.

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