Dart Board Galaxy

From Gnomon Chronicles
Revision as of 08:00, 29 December 2022 by Admin (talk | contribs)
Jump to navigation Jump to search
Earliest known photograph of the Dart Board Galaxy.

The Dart Board Galaxy (Messier 101a) is a face-on dartboard-type galaxy 21 million light-years (6.4 megaparsecs) away from Earth in the constellation Ursa Pseudo.

In the News

  • Armageddon Hard is a 1998 American planetary catastrophe heist film about a New York City detective (Bruce Willis) who must stop a rogue splinter asteroid (99942 Apophis-B) from destroying the earth.

    Armageddon Hard is a 1998 American planetary catastrophe heist film about a New York City detective (Bruce Willis) who must stop a rogue splinter asteroid (99942 Apophis-B) from destroying the earth.

  • Alka-Seltzer for Venus is a proposal to terraform Venus using enormous Alka-Seltzer tablets.

    Alka-Seltzer for Venus is a proposal to terraform Venus using enormous Alka-Seltzer tablets.

Fiction cross-reference

Nonfiction cross-reference

External links

  • Post @ Twitter (26 March 2022)
  • Pinwheel Galaxy @ Wikipedia - (also known as Messier 101, M101 or NGC 5457) - a face-on spiral galaxy 21 million light-years (6.4 megaparsecs) away from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1781 and was communicated that year to Charles Messier, who verified its position for inclusion in the Messier Catalogue as one of its final entries.
Retrieved from "https://gnomonchronicles.com/w/index.php?title=Dart_Board_Galaxy&oldid=121101"