In this new composite image from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer and the Spitzer Space Telescope of the Andromeda galaxy. The ultraviolet eyes of Galaxy Evolution Explorer reveal Andromeda's hotter regions filled with young and old stars.
The Spitzer space telescope's infrared eyes show Andromeda's relatively "cool" side, which includes embryonic stars hidden in their dusty cocoons.

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This image is a false colour composite comprised of data from Galaxy Evolution Explorer's far-ultraviolet detector (blue), near-ultraviolet detector (green), and Spitzer's multiband imaging photometer at 24 microns (red).
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/K. Gordon (Univ. of Ariz.) & GALEX Science

Position (2000): RA: 00h42m44.30s Dec: 41d16m9.00s


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`Irony` actually does mean `metal like`...

Stellar newborns and wizened old stars rub elbows in a newly released image of our neighbouring galaxy, Andromeda.

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`Irony` actually does mean `metal like`...

Thanks Blob, It is interesting what is being discovered about the periods of rapid star formation, and the gaps between those periods in our galaxy and our galactic neighbors. Eventually, we'll have collected enough data to make a more consistant story about all galaxies, and how they got to be the way they are.

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Pretty. Good Galaxy phots in the latest Astronomy mag--and pictures of a sled type probe and the Ares rockets. Last months issue had a slap at manned spaceflight that was one sided as all get out.

This gives a very different picture than the other thread...SMBH's prevent star formation!


http://www.newscientistspace.com/article/dn8025

It would 'appear' that SMBH's 'may' be globular cluster making machines!

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I assume that you don't mean that that is all they do, but can you point me to where you see anything in the recent articles connecting SMBHs to globular cluster formation? The one about the ring around M31's SMBH says nothing about it.

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