Subj : Daily APOD Report To : All From : Ben Ritchey Date : Wed Jan 16 2019 08:10:42 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. 2019 January 16 [2] IC 342: The Hidden Galaxy Image Credit & Copyright [3] : Arturas Medvedevas [4] Explanation: Similar [5] in size to large, bright spiral galaxies in our neighborhood, IC 342 [6] is a mere 10 million light-years distant [7] in the long-necked, northern constellation Camelopardalis [8] . A sprawling island universe [9] , IC 342 would otherwise be a prominent galaxy in our night sky, but it is hidden from clear view and only glimpsed through the veil of stars, gas and dust clouds along the plane of our own Milky Way galaxy [10] . Even though IC 342's light is dimmed and reddened by intervening cosmic clouds [11] , this sharp telescopic image [12] traces the galaxy's own obscuring dust, young star clusters, and glowing pink star forming regions along spiral arms that wind far from the galaxy's core [13] . IC 342 may have undergone a recent burst of star formation [14] activity and is close enough to have gravitationally influenced the evolution of the local group [15] of galaxies and the Milky Way. Tomorrow's picture: old school starry night ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- < [16] | Archive [17] | Submissions [18] | Index [19] | Search [20] | Calendar [21] | RSS [22] | Education [23] | About APOD [24] | Discuss [25] | > [26] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff [27] (MTU [28] ) & Jerry Bonnell [29] (UMCP [30] ) NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply [31] . NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices [32] A service of: ASD [33] at NASA [34] / GSFC [35] & Michigan Tech. U. [36] ---------- Site notes: [1] archivepix.html [2] image/1901/IC342Medvedevas.jpg [3] lib/about_apod.html#srapply [4] https://arturas.space/ [5] ap101209.html [6] http://spider.seds.org/spider/LG/i0342.html [7] http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/ bib_query?2002AJ....124..839S [8] http://www.hawastsoc.org/deepsky/cam/ index.html [9] ap051222.html [10] ap110520.html [11] http://www-ssg.sr.unh.edu/ism/what1.html [12] https://arturas.space/images/featured/5c294dc009784501388b6e28 [13] http://spacetelescope.org/images/potw1727a/ [14] http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/spitzer/ multimedia/pia14402.html [15] http://messier.seds.org/xtra/ngc/maffei1g.html [16] ap190115.html [17] archivepix.html [18] lib/apsubmit2015.html [19] lib/aptree.html [20] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search [21] calendar/allyears.html [22] /apod.rss [23] lib/edlinks.html [24] lib/about_apod.html [25] http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=190116 [26] ap190117.html [27] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html [28] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ [29] https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html [30] http://www.astro.umd.edu/ [31] lib/about_apod.html#srapply [32] https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html [33] https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ [34] https://www.nasa.gov/ [35] https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ [36] http://www.mtu.edu/ --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A42 (Windows/32) * Origin: FIDONet - The Positronium Repository (1:393/68) .