Sombrero Galaxy - Moved !!

[moondog]

Our local free paper was doing an article about the top astro images as voted by ' a stargazer's poll '.

At No.1 position they had the Sombrero Galaxy. The paper had an excellent large colour image of the galaxy, which it said " lies 28 million miles from Earth ". :nono:

Once the present cloud cover clears you should have no problem seeing the galaxy, as it's obviously recently merged with ours. !!

In second place was the Ant Nebula with the runner up the Eskimo Galaxy.( Colour pics of these as well).

Shame the facts were incorrect as it was a good try by the local paper.

Wonder what would be the SGL Nos 1, 2 and 3. Any takers ?

8)

MD

[Ant]

clearly the Ant nebula would have to be 1st

ANT

[GazOC]

It was in Daily Mail as well,without the mistakes.

They had the top 10 Hubble images, there were some awesome shots.

[SteelRat]

Eskimo Galaxy??? is that where 'snow burgers' come from?

[GazOC]

clearly the Ant nebula would have to be 1st

ANT

:D :lol:Indeed!!

[The Warthog]

Can I get a nebula named after me? Please?

[Andrew*]

The paper had an excellent large colour image of the galaxy, which it said " lies 28 million miles from Earth ". :nono:

:shock: That's between here and our SUN!!! I haven't seen it. It must be awfully small!

Andrew

[moondog]

As we know newspapers always print the truth, so it must be somewhere between the Earth and the Sun !

The 'Warthog' nebula has a fine ring to it, don't you think ?

8)

MD

[Andrew*]

certainly does!

nebula = cloud

I'm sure we could arrange for one of those annoying clouds that cover our skies to be called the WH nebula, although that's probably not a great tribute to its name...

Andrew

[Kain]

Anyone should have a cloud named after them is me

Kain

[SteelRat]

You ARE the weather man matey