Subj : Daily APOD Report To : All From : Ben Ritchey Date : Thu Jun 06 2019 10:17:40 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 June 6 [2] Messier 63: The Sunflower Galaxy Image Credit & Copyright [3] : Bernard Miller [4] Explanation: A bright spiral galaxy of the northern sky, Messier 63 [5] is about 25 million light-years distant in the loyal constellation Canes Venatici [6] . Also cataloged as NGC 5055, the majestic island universe [7] is nearly 100,000 light-years across. That's about the size of our own Milky Way [8] Galaxy. Known by the popular moniker, The Sunflower Galaxy, M63 sports a bright yellowish core in this sharp telescopic portrait [9] . Its sweeping blue spiral arms are streaked with cosmic dust lanes and dotted with pink star forming regions. A dominant member of a known galaxy group [10] , M63 has faint, extended features that are likely star streams from tidally disrupted [11] satellite galaxies. M63 shines across [12] the electromagnetic spectrum and is thought to have undergone [13] bursts of intense star formation. Tomorrow's picture: pixels in space ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- < [14] | Archive [15] | Submissions [16] | Index [17] | Search [18] | Calendar [19] | RSS [20] | Education [21] | About APOD [22] | Discuss [23] | > [24] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff [25] (MTU [26] ) & Jerry Bonnell [27] (UMCP [28] ) NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply [29] . NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices [30] A service of: ASD [31] at NASA [32] / GSFC [33] & Michigan Tech. U. [34] ---------- Site notes: [1] archivepix.html [2] image/1906/M63_PS1_CROP2_FULL.jpg [3] lib/about_apod.html#srapply [4] http://www.azstarman.net/index.html [5] https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/ messier-63-the-sunflower-galaxy [6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canes_Venatici [7] ap100109.html [8] ap080104.html [9] http://www.azstarman.net/CDK/M63.htm [10] http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/galgrps/m101.html [11] http://www.cosmotography.com/images/ galaxy_cannibalism.html [12] http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_classroom/ multiwavelength_astronomy/multiwavelength_astronomy/ [13] http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0701125 [14] ap190605.html [15] archivepix.html [16] lib/apsubmit2015.html [17] lib/aptree.html [18] http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search [19] calendar/allyears.html [20] /apod.rss [21] lib/edlinks.html [22] lib/about_apod.html [23] http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=190606 [24] ap190607.html [25] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html [26] http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ [27] http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html [28] http://www.astro.umd.edu/ [29] lib/about_apod.html#srapply [30] http://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html [31] http://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ [32] http://www.nasa.gov/ [33] http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ [34] http://www.mtu.edu/ --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 (Windows/32) * Origin: FIDONet - The Positronium Repository (1:393/68) .