Stars and galaxies... 'The distance is like heaven and earth when you are in Virgo' [Now in space]

Stars and galaxies captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. [Photo = ESA/Hubble & NASA, SJ Smartt, C. Kilpatrick]



They are in the same constellation Virgo, but their distances are worlds apart.



On the 20th (local time), NASA released a photo of a star and a galaxy together as its 'Image of the Day'. The photo is a combination of photos taken by two Hubble Space Telescope observation devices.



Both the star and the galaxy are in Virgo. When you look at the combined photo, it looks as if the galaxy and the star are shining in the same place. NASA explained that the galaxy and the star appear to be close to each other and overlap, but they are actually incredibly(?) far away.



The star with four long diffraction spikes on the left side of the photo is a star in our galaxy. It is only(?) 7,109 light years away from Earth. The galaxy seen with the star, 'NGC4900', is a spiral galaxy that is a whopping 45 million light years away from Earth.



For reference, our galaxy is about 100,000 light years across.





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