Milky Way look-alike

Posted on June 5, 2011 by Michael

This is an old image, but I’ve seen it in the news lately for whatever reason (maybe it was retaken?) It’s a galaxy in the Pavo constellation located about 25 million lightyears away. Known as NGC 6744, it is a look-alike of the Milky Way.

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  1. Nate's avatar
    Nate, on June 5, 2011 at 1:48 am said:

    The snickers galaxy.

  2. Michael's avatar
    Michael Hawkins, on June 5, 2011 at 3:00 am said:

    I’ll grant you Almond Joy as a comparison, but not Snickers.

    Snickers destroys Milky Way.

  3. Nate's avatar
    Nate, on June 5, 2011 at 3:10 am said:

    not milky way caramel, there is nothing better.

  4. Michael's avatar
    Michael, on June 5, 2011 at 11:10 am said:

    Aren’t a lot of spiral galaxies look-alikes of the Milky Way?

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    Michael Hawkins, on June 5, 2011 at 11:31 pm said:

    I presume the number of arms match up on this one.

    Plus it was probably recently re-photographed.

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