If you thought the Lagoon yesterday was pretty, then reset your awe-meter. Check. This. Out.
D'ya like that? Huh? Do ya? Had enough? No? Then check THIS out!
Jeebus. Click either to brobdingnangate. In fact, you can get massively huge versions here and here. We're talking 30 and 40 Mb each, so be ye fairly warned, says I. Those magnificent images are of the galaxies NGC 4402 and NGC 4522, respectively, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys (from before the recent repair mission). They're both spiral galaxies in the Virgo Cluster, the nearest large collection of galaxies to us, roughly 60 million light years from Earth. If they look funny to you, then good! The Virgo Cluster is massive, and has a lot of gravity. The galaxies bound to it are moving like bees surrounding a hive, each in its own orbit going every which ...
