Images of Galaxy's
Despite the Fermi Paradox and it's frustrations. Our technology in attempting to try and find alien civilizations will become more advanced, as our desire to see that we are not alone in the universe will intensify. In the meantime we can only ponder at the beautiful structure of other Galaxy's billions of light years away from our own Milky Way.
The spiral galaxy, called NGC 2841, lies in the constellation Ursa Major, about 46 million light-years from Earth. Hubble's newest instrument, the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), took the photo, in which newborn stars show up as bright blue clumps. While the image shows lots of hot, young stars in NGC 2841's disk, there are just a few sites where hydrogen gas is currently collapsing into new stars, researchers said. It is likely that these fiery youngsters destroyed the star-forming regions in which they formed.
This one is stunning.
NGC 4414 is an unbarred spiral galaxy about 62 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. It is a flocculent galaxy, with short segments of spiral structure but without the dramatic well-defined spiral arms of a grand design spiral. In 1974 a supernova, SN 1974G, was observed and was the only supernova in this galaxy to be recorded until June 7, 2013 when SN 2013df was discovered at Magnitude 14. NGC 4414 is also a very isolated galaxy without signs of past interactions with other galaxies and despite not being a starburst galaxy shows a high density and richness of gas -both atomic and molecular, with the former extending far beyond its optical disk. (Text from Wikipedia)
