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NGC 891 (also known as Caldwell 23, the Silver Sliver Galaxy, and the Outer Limits Galaxy) is an edge-on unbarred spiral galaxy about 30 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. It was discovered by William Herschel on October 6, 1784. [3] The galaxy is a member of the NGC 1023 group of galaxies in the Local Supercluster.
The space center opened with a visit from James Lovell in 1986. [1] The cost of the Space center was 12 million dollars. The museum of Science and Industry in Chicago also opened an OmniMax theater in 1986: it was built inside the space center. [3] [7] The space center was remodeled and reopened in May of 2024.
The St. Regis Chicago is a mixed-use residential and hotel building consisting of the St. Regis Residences, 393 luxury condominium residences, and the St. Regis Hotel, with 191 hotel rooms, including 33 suites. [5] The hotel occupies the first 10 floors of the structure with private residences on floors 11 through 97. [15]
In the 1953 movie “It Came From Outer Space” — a groundbreaking, 3D, science fiction attraction — an amateur astronomer and his schoolteacher girlfriend run into aliens in Arizona. The ...
A historic extraterrestrial sky—Earthrise, the Earth viewed from the Moon.Taken by Apollo 8 astronaut William Anders while in lunar orbit, December 24, 1968.. In astronomy, an extraterrestrial sky is a view of outer space from the surface of an astronomical body other than Earth.
InterContinental Chicago Magnificent Mile is a hotel in Chicago, United States. The hotel currently occupies two multi-story buildings . The historic tower, or "South Tower," is a 471-foot (144 m), 42-story building which was completed in 1929 originally as the home of the Medinah Athletic Club . [ 1 ]
There are over 200 full-sky images in spectral bands ranging from radio to gamma-rays There are also thousands of individual study images of various astronomical objects from space telescopes such as the Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope in infrared, the Chandra X-ray Observatory, COBE, WMAP, ROSAT, IRAS, GALEX as well as many ...
The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey, or GOODS, is an astronomical survey combining deep observations from three of NASA's Great Observatories: the Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope, and the Chandra X-ray Observatory, along with data from other space-based telescopes, such as XMM Newton, and some of the world's most powerful ground-based telescopes.