BODES GALAXY CLUSTER       GREATER MASS FIELDS AROUND BODES GALAXY   (M81)     FM RADIO NGC 3077 NGC 2403 SUPERFORM RADIO IMAGES ARE A GREAT LIGHT SHOW

RADIO IMAGES OF M81, M82, AND NGC 3077

A deep space long range radio telescope look at M81 (Bodes Galaxy) shows several objects nearby, (besides the 'Cigar Galaxy' M82, upper object). The several objects comprise a cluster of at least 5 hot objects, all of which seem interractive with Bodes. Interestingly, the lower left object is seen distinctly as sweeping off in winding tethers off the upper right flank of Bodes and swinging around dragging strew to the lower left position, and the two intervening small hotspots between the lower left object and M82 above seem to tie M82 together more than is M82 tied directly to Bodes.



The blue radio image (with reverse negative black and white reference image attached) can be linked from this SEDS page, under the caption "Radio image of M81/82/NGC 3077 (NRAO) compared to the visible light POSS image".

In three views above, in the left frame Bodes (M81) is big at right, M82 is above, and Ngc 3077 to the left. In the middle (blue background) two additional small conglomerates are seen to the left of Bodes. The right view is an astronomer's reverse negative showing the same frame and galaxies as the left hand deep space view.

In fact it looks as if M82 has had a sideglance collision along the left flank of Bodes, the M82 path originating in radio excitement below to the left of center, the radio trail coming in brightly from offscreen below, the radio trail continuing up along the left flank of Bodes to seriously turbulent circumstances at the present location of M82.

The fact that the lower M82 trail seems to have impacted the lower left object's trail about half way along to the left edge of the trail, indicates that these are two separate objects ie, one did not spin off from the other as a consequence of collisions and aftermaths currently under display by the radio trails.

The reverse negative view 3rd image right is the original from which a histogram image (at left) was made, showing more deep space coherency suggesting the kind of strew and rubble revealed in the radio frequency profile (colored center image).

Similar radio trails are seen in a brown image near the page bottom here, captioned:
'Observations of centimeter radiowave emissions show that neutral hydrogen gas flows between M81, M82 and NGC 3077. Astronomers can trace the motion of this atomic gas as it travels into the inner regions of the galaxies'.

The 'neutral hydrogen gas' image is left, next below.



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A low resolution photography image of M81, when enhanced, shows substantial sundry matter drifts around the galaxy.



Next, an earlier, faint, radio astronomy picture of Bodes Galaxy. Radio astronomers achieved far more than they bargained for when releasing the radio view of Bodes Galaxy M81, the 'farmore' seen at its best in high a level of Gamma Correction enhancement, showing more content albiet still dim and indistinct overall, showing most inner workings of Bode galaxy itself and nothing beyond Bode's major arms.



An Ultra Violet view, original left, enhanced at right. This is not the complete UV look for Bodes, Bodes looks different in different UV frequencies.



The fact that the lower portion of the M82 trail (arriving off screen at the image bottom) seems to have impacted the lower left object's trail indicates that these are two separate objects ie, one did not spin off from the other as a consequence of collisions and aftermaths currently under display by the radio trails.

RADIO IMAGES ARE A GREAT LIGHT SHOW

These radio views have come late in the game, well after Bodes Galaxy and M82 studies were completed for Galaxies In Chaos. If radio views had been seen earlier in preparing GIC Bodes Galaxy pages, it is certain speculative text regards collisions as texted above in these two linked pages would be in many ways different in speculative thrusts.

Three radio views show basic similarities and subtle differences.



SEDS (middle image) Radio image source of M81 group

I went back on the Internet and did a rigorous seach but was not able to find what I was after, this 'after' is the actual layout of the three galaxies (M81, M82, and Ngc 3077) in context of other images of M81, plus M81 and m82 together with M82 at the left. In context, the above radio views (each rotated left by 90 degrees) are correct, with Ngc 3077 at the lower right.

Next is a colorized view showing galaxy outlines sharply, Bodes at right, M82 at top, and Ngc 3077 (in monotone) at left. The right all monotone view shows these galaxies in their more familiar used orientation, with M82 beyond the left side of Bodes.



Although the radio image (left in next image below) seems to beholden a very large overall multi-object interracting body, it is correct in scale and orientation to the two black and white optical views to the right in the composite. The optical views, instead, show just three rather small bodies far apart in deep space. The optically visible (white) Bodes in scale are the small red central arms in the radio view.



Oddly, some of the radio image's greatest density is where optical glowing sundry matter density is at its weakest. A composite attempt (from Dss 1st generation optical images converted to stark display by Histogram Equalize), more or less shows comparative coherencies with radio density sundry matter, but, as just punded, look to areas of greater radio density and see lesser sundry matter optical densities.

For instance, next image, a strongly developed gravity well (narrow low luminant dark hemisphere) surrounds the west flank of Bodes, which in juxtaposition is very bright and active (highly luminant) in radio.

Click here for composite version large.

If Bodes is drifting to the right, it might mean that sundry matter has been swept from the west hemisphere area by Bode's gravity leaving hot gas and little residual matter carrying optical frequency excitements, or, extra dense dust is obscuring what could be a conciderable reservoir of unseen (hidden) diffuse but dense mass in the 'gravity well'.



In which case large extensions of Bodes are to be expected at both the left and right ends of Bodes. Large 'more of Bodes' have been glimpsed in enhancements I have done, here - showing a large sweep rising in dim arm material in an arc over the left end - and here showing a huge radial superform off the right end of the brightly visible portion of Bodes.





Sweeps of glowing radio in interactive streams suggest a correct interpretation that Bodes has slowly rotated clockwise after entangling the faster moving M82 sailing off to the right, and perhaps an even faster moving Ngc 3077 whose time line in the past began at the upper left of Bodes when Bodes was rotated more counter clockwise when entangling M82.

Low resolution photography images of M81 and M82, when enhanced, show substantial sundry matter drifts around the galaxies.

Next, a Dss 2nd generation (blue) image of M82 shows a larger structure dimly seen. The exaggerated color tone enhancement shows that the twin martian antenna extend above to conciderable distance and do not completely peter out abruptly.



Hints of greater things abounding at M81 can be gleaned by pushing image enhancer adjustments to the brisk of their limits using a Dss 2nd generation image, in which one of the small hot radio objects is exposed alongside Bodes, and greater arcing dim arms are brought into view.



There seems nothing instantly seen as the second small hot radio object. This maximum treatment of a Dss 2nd generation view of M81 and m82 combined next, shows traces barely seen of wide sweeping sundry matter density around the far outer right flank starting from above M81, in keeping with radio transmissions of high coherency in hydrogen flows out there.



Click for large version in which many more details are seen.

Oddly, no optically bright images of Bodes I have seen show any indication of one of the two radio bright small clumps which lay just off the shore of Bodes between Bodes and M82 to the left of Bodes. The lower clump is seen under extreme high enhancement (very dull and small in the next grape toned enhancement. This next image has already been shown further above.






NEXT - NGC 3077

The third member of this group interracting with Bodes is Ngc 3077, an irregular galaxy now classed as 'peculiar' in seeming to be an elliptical galaxy but now very disturbed as is M82 in interracting with other group members.



Ngc 3077 is larger than it first looks. Next is an enhanced view which I made from the above black and white Noao original.





The enhanced view shows widespread dim glowing reaches around a bright glowing main object, dim clumping of hot entities lurk through the murk, and serious different densities in surrounding deep space sundry matter are evident in the enhancement.

Some internal structure to Ngc 3077 can be seen in this color image next, (source unknown), the original showing very little. Blue and red high enhancements, each show different details of a larger object, blue strongly showing a strew of rubble (on the right) presumably leading back toward Bodes galaxy offscreen to the right, and red showing an extra outer dim hem around the left circumpherence, with not so much of the strew as is seen in blue on the right.









These color hue enhancements are very telltale in revealing two major assymetrical (offshifted) energy components, one in red, a different fundamental energy component seen in blue light.

Subtle vertical strips in the red view above show where composite images in smaller pieces by the telescope were patched together to make the whole image.

NEXT - NGC 2403

Galaxy Ngc 2403 is cited as being within the local Bodes (M81) group although few images of Ngc 2403 were found (here is one poor quality from SEDS) searching the Internet. Dss produced the following 2nd generation version, which I enhanced to reveal a very large spread out diffuse irregular object.



NGC 2403 SUPERFORM



The above composite shows an enhancement made from the Dss original which is at right in the composite.

The enhancement (by histogram equalize) reveals an Ngc 2403 galaxy superstructure which is much larger than the galaxy structure seen in normal ranges of optical brightness.



Next, an enhancement of this image reveals some of the Ngc 2403 superstructure.



A dot spotted dark screen with no main features, half way between Bodes and Ngc 2403, reveals an anomolous stretch of optically glowing matter (image at left) when enhanced by histogram Equalize. Half way between means the RA of Bodes was decreased by 1 point from O9 to 08, and the Dec was decreased from +69 to +68. This anomlous bright drift might or might not be residual strew from close enounter(s) between Ngc 2403 and the Bodes core group.

A colored Ngc 2403 original from this site inspects the core, which is very irregular with no core bubble otherwise generated as a long time stable figure.

Next is a zoom of a jet emerging from the core underdeck, high red enhancement reveals thin strings and trails of sundry matter, the jet itself seemingly a residual from another galaxy now hurtling through the Ngc 2403 body substance into the open. Another jet seems to have swung around from the left and is currently firing into the open in a spew like a hail of broken up comet fragments

Note: concentric rippling strongly suggests active gravity waves, not shock waves or wavefronts from successive super nova explosions, but, rather ripples in the fabric of space itself, revealing where gravity waves are formed (revealed like condensation revealing curved tracks of invisible charged particles in a Hydrogen Bubble Chamber.





Finally, here is a composite of a blue colored original, and the same highly enhanced by Gamma Correction showing that the original film captured substantial quantities of dim 'dark galaxy' material surround the bright core area.

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