TheLowell Observatory‘s new toy , theDiscovery Channel Telescope , has finally gone online — andthey’ve resign super - snazzy pictures of three of our favorite galaxiesto celebrate . Above is M109 , a barred spiraling galaxy 84 million loose geezerhood from Earth .
The 16 - million - pixel television camera is already taking some pretty sweet images — but it ’ll be even beneficial when they add the impressive - sounding Large Monolithic Imager ( LMI ) from the National Science Foundation , which will sum up a 36 - million - picture element capability .
Here are the other two great galaxy pictures , evince the Sombrero Galaxy and the Whirlpool Galaxy respectively :
[ Discovery News , viaMSNBC ]
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