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1 min readSep 26, 2017
Day 546 –Vermin Galaxy — Haibun Journey Beauty Each Day
Today’s beauty is a picture from the Hubble space telescope. This picture reminds me of an impressionistic painting. It looks like large daps of beautiful color. It also reminds me of the confetti style quilting I do. Maybe that is why I am drawn to it.
“This shows a distant galaxy — visible as the smudge to the lower right — as it begins to align with and pass behind a star sitting nearer to us within the Milky Way. This is an event known as a transit. The star is called HD 107146, and it sits at the center of the frame. Its light has been blocked in this image to make its immediate surroundings and the faint galaxy visible — the position of the star is marked with a green circle.” Text credit: European Space Agency
