NGC 4631: galaktika Kit
29.03.2002 | Astronomicheskaya kartinka dnya
NGC
4631 - eto bol'shaya, krasivaya spiral'naya galaktika, vidimaya
s rebra,
nahodyashayasya na rasstoyanii vsego 25 millionov svetovyh let
v malen'kom severnom sozvezdii
Gonchih
Psov.
Nemnogo iskazhennaya klinovidnaya forma etoi galaktiki
kazhetsya nekotorym kosmicheskoi seledkoi, a drugim - kitom,
o chem govorit ee rasprostranennoe nazvanie.
V lyubom sluchae,
ona pohozha po razmeru na nash
Mlechnyi Put'.
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