Big blue

• by Mark_Bolders

  This massive blue star is quite impressive.

  Posted October 31, 2013 7:01 AM

• by JeanTate in response to Mark Bolders's comment.

  Yes.

  But I think the Eos (edge-on spiral) is even more impressive: the bulge dominates, because this is an IR image; if this were an SDSS image, the disk would be much more impressive.

  Here's the SDSS image:

  

  Wow! An Eos with a very red disk!! 😮

  Posted November 2, 2013 10:25 PM