Imagenes del Mundo - Massachussets USA - Mujer disfruta del mar

Una mujer disfruta del mar sobre una tabla, en el lago Quannapowitt, en Wakefield, Massachussets (EE.UU).

ELISE AMENDOLA AP

Imagenes del Mundo - Moscu - La gorila Kira con su bebé

La gorila Kira con su bebé en el zoo de Moscú (Rusia). El bebé, nacido el 22 de julio, ya está viviendo con su madre y otros gorilas.

ALEXANDER ZEMLIANICHENKO AP

Astronomy picture of the day - 2016 August 4 - M63: Sunflower Galaxy Wide Field

M63: Sunflower Galaxy Wide Field 
Image Credit & Copyright: Data - Deep Sky West, Processing - John Vermette

Explanation: The Sunflower Galaxy blooms near the center of this wide field telescopic view. The scene spans about 2 degrees or 4 full moons on the sky toward the loyal constellation Canes Venatici. More formally known as Messier 63, the majestic island universe is nearly 100,000 light-years across, about the size of our own Milky Way Galaxy. Surrounding its bright yellowish core, sweeping spiral arms are streaked with cosmic dust lanes and dotted with star forming regions. A dominant member of a known galaxy group, M63 has faint, extended features that could be the the remains of dwarf satellite galaxies, evidence that large galaxies grow by accreting small ones. M63 shines across the electromagnetic spectrum and is thought to have undergone bursts of intense star formation.