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| The Leo Triplet |
The Leo Triplet - or Leo’s Trio as I like to call them. Three galaxies near the tail of Leo the lion, 35 million light years away. Ancient photons that started out when yet another mass extinction was unfolding on the earth 35 million years ago - and the Antarctic ice sheet was only beginning to take shape. They finally arrived yesterday, fresh as daisies. Relativistically for photons, time stands still.
This is my first deep-sky image of 2022, and also possibly among the farthest objects I have ever imaged. I like to pretend this is a (very) poor man’s version of the iconic “Hubble ultra deep field” photo taken by the Hubble space telescope.
