February 10th, 2011
This photo is also very intriguing as every posts' picture seems to be. Hanny's Voorwerp is Dutch for Hanny's object. This object is so massive that it is equal in size to our own Milky Way. The green light is produced by the emission of oxygen atoms. The picture was taken by the Hubble satellite. These lie approximately 650 million light years away. This distance comes to the point of completely unfathomable. It's facts like this that confound my perception of the universe itself. Also visible from this picture is a star forming region in the voorwerp.
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