Subj : Daily APOD Report To : All From : Ben Ritchey Date : Wed Sep 05 2018 10:39:16 Astronomy Picture of the Day Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! [1] Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2018 September 5 [2] NGC 3628: Sideways Spiral Galaxy Image Credit & Copyright: Data: Paul Gardner [3] , Great Basin Observatory [4] ; Processing: Rogelio Bernal Andreo [5] (DeepSkyColors.com [6] ) Explanation: What do spiral galaxies look like sideways? Featured is a sharp telescopic view of a magnificent edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 3628 [7] , a puffy galactic disk [8] divided by dark dust lanes. Of course, this deep galactic portrait [9] puts some astronomers in mind [10] of its popular moniker, The Hamburger Galaxy. The tantalizing island universe [11] is about 100,000 light-years across and 35 million light-year [12] s away in the northern springtime constellation [13] Leo. NGC 3628 [14] shares its neighborhood in the local Universe [15] with two other large spirals M65 [16] and M66 [17] in a grouping otherwise known as the Leo Triplet [18] . Gravitational interactions with [19] its cosmic neighbors are likely responsible for the extended flare and warp [20] of this spiral's disk. Sky Link: APOD API from NASA [21] Tomorrow's picture: open space ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- < [22] | Archive [23] | Submissions [24] | Index [25] | Search [26] | Calendar [27] | RSS [28] | Education [29] | About APOD [30] | Discuss [31] | > [32] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff [33] (MTU [34] ) & Jerry Bonnell [35] (UMCP [36] ) NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply [37] . NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices [38] A service of: ASD [39] at NASA [40] / GSFC [41] & Michigan Tech. U. [42] ---------- Site notes: [1] archivepix.html [2] image/1809/NGC3628_GardnerRBA_2048.jpg [3] http://www.greatbasinobservatory.org/paul-gardner [4] http://www.greatbasinobservatory.org/ [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogelio_Bernal_Andreo [6] http://www.deepskycolors.com/ [7] http://messier.seds.org/xtra/ngc/n3628.html [8] ap090613.html [9] https://c2.staticflickr.com/2/1851/30425585278_5a69b73a40_o.jpg [10] ap020807.html [11] https://www.nasa.gov/content/universe-missions-list [12] https://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/question19.html [13] https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/starfinder2/en/ [14] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_3628 [15] http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/galgrps/leoi.html [16] ap070601.html [17] ap101113.html [18] ap170412.html [19] http://burro.cwru.edu/JavaLab/GalCrashWeb/dynamic.html [20] ap120304.html [21] https://api.nasa.gov/api.html#apod [22] ap180904.html [23] archivepix.html [24] lib/apsubmit2015.html [25] lib/aptree.html [26] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search [27] calendar/allyears.html [28] /apod.rss [29] lib/edlinks.html [30] lib/about_apod.html [31] http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=180905 [32] ap180906.html [33] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html [34] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ [35] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html [36] http://www.astro.umd.edu/ [37] lib/about_apod.html#srapply [38] https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html [39] https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ [40] https://www.nasa.gov/ [41] https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ [42] http://www.mtu.edu/ --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A39 (Windows/32) * Origin: FIDONet - The Positronium Repository (1:393/68) .