A bright spiral galaxy of the northern sky, Messier 63 is about 25 million
light-years distant in the loyal constellation Canes Venatici. Also
cataloged as NGC 5055, the majestic island universe
is nearly 100,000 light-years across. That's about the size of our own Milky Way Galaxy. Known by the popular moniker, The
Sunflower Galaxy, M63 sports a bright yellowish core in this sharp, colorful
galaxy portrait. 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, M63
has faint, extended features that could be the result of gravitational interactions with nearby
galaxies. In fact, M63 shines
across the electromagnetic spectrum and is thought to have undergone bursts of intense star formation.
March 13, 2014
NGC 5055 Sunflower Galaxy
A bright spiral galaxy of the northern sky, Messier 63 is about 25 million
light-years distant in the loyal constellation Canes Venatici. Also
cataloged as NGC 5055, the majestic island universe
is nearly 100,000 light-years across. That's about the size of our own Milky Way Galaxy. Known by the popular moniker, The
Sunflower Galaxy, M63 sports a bright yellowish core in this sharp, colorful
galaxy portrait. 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, M63
has faint, extended features that could be the result of gravitational interactions with nearby
galaxies. In fact, M63 shines
across the electromagnetic spectrum and is thought to have undergone bursts of intense star formation.
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