The image portrays the four main galaxies of the family of M81 with the Bode Galaxy at the center and the Cigar Galaxy to the left in the constellation of Ursa Major, against a backdrop of black velvet from which emanates the luminous signal coming from distant islands of stars hundreds of millions of light-years away.
Distant as PGC28614 (highlighted in red in the annotated photo) over 500 million light-years away, like hundreds of thousands of other subjects to thrill us.
Large and small galaxies from which we receive a faint signal handed down from the mists of time.
Photons departed from there when there were no dinosaurs yet on Earth.
Photons whose journey began hundreds of millions of years ago, interrupted by the lens of our LAB1 to immortalize the light of the infinite.
Photons that bring us stories of stars, the journey through spacetime to which we refer in the document at the link M81 – M82 Wide Field, for those, like us, who dream and seek to understand the immense.
