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This image highlights the location of the galaxy JADES-GS-z6 in a portion of an area of the sky known as GOODS-South, which was observed as part of the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey, or JADES.
More + high resolution image: www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Webb/Webb_s...
This galaxy, along with others in this region, were part of a Webb study by an international team of astronomers, who observed the chemical signature of carbon-rich dust grains at redshift ~7. This is roughly equivalent to one billion years after the birth of the Universe. Similar observational signatures have been observed in the much more recent Universe, attributed to complex, carbon-based molecules known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). It is not thought likely, however, that PAHs would have developed within the first billion years of cosmic time. Therefore, this observation suggests the exciting possibility that Webb may have observed a different species of carbon-based molecule: possibly minuscule graphite- or diamond-like grains produced by the earliest stars or supernovae. This observation suggests exciting avenues of investigation into both the production of cosmic dust and the earliest stellar populations in our Universe, and was made possible by Webb’s unprecedented sensitivity.
The team’s research indicates that this particular galaxy showed significant dust obscuration and has undergone substantial metal enrichment relative to galaxies with similar mass at the same redshift. The team also believes the galaxy's visible colour gradient may indicate a peculiar geometrical alignment of stars and dust.
In this image, blue, green, and red were assigned to Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) data at 0.9, 1.15, and 1.5 microns; 2.0, 2.77, and 3.55 microns; and 3.56, 4.1, and 4.44 microns (F090W, F115W, and F150W; F200W, F277W, and F335M; and F356W, F410M, and F444W), respectively.
The galaxy is shown zoomed in on a region measuring roughly 1x1 arcseconds, which is a measure of angular distance on the sky. One arcsecond is equal to 1/3600 of one degree of arc (the full Moon has an angular diameter of about 0.5 degrees). The actual size of an object that covers one arcsecond on the sky depends on its distance from the telescope.
Image credit: ESA/Webb, NASA, ESA, CSA, B. Robertson (UC Santa Cruz), B. Johnson (Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian), S. Tacchella (University of Cambridge, M. Rieke (Univ. of Arizona), D. Eisenstein (Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian), A. Pagan (STScI)
[Image description: The image shows a deep galaxy field, featuring thousands of galaxies of various shapes and sizes. A cutout indicates a particular galaxy, known as JADES-GS-z6, which was a research target for this result. It appears as a blurry smudge of blue, red and green.]
Very Faint tiny dwarf irregular Galaxy
Mag 12
Apparent square shape…
Distance 4.3 million light-years.
Size 5000 ly.
Please switch to the newer version uploaded on March 7.
It is compelling to see this very faint object coming up out of the background. I have left the background visible.
Bright yellow stars in the foreground are closer.
Telescope live, Chile.
4.3 hr total exposure LRGB
PI, LR
FLI ProLine PL9000 CCD.
Feb 2022
Planewave CDK24
Aperture: 610 mm (24 inches)
Focal Length: 3962 mm
F-ratio: 6.5
Mount: Mathis MI-1000/1250 with absolute encoders
Astrodon MonsterMOAG
El Sauce Observatory
Río Hurtado, Coquimbo Region, Chile
Coordinates: 30.4725° S, 70.7631° W
Famous Andromeda Galaxy
Quick shot I took yesterday after sunset, unfortunaly I was able to shoot just a while till moonrise. It is just 5x10min but I think the result is pretty good. What do u mean guys?:)
Taken on 24.2.2016, Slovakia
SW ED 120/900
HED 0,85 focal reducer
HEQ5-GoTo
Canon 1000Dmod
CLS-CCD filter
QHY5L-II with 9x50finderscope
Processed with Pixinsight
5x10min
Saudi Arabia desert photo by TARIQ-M "Tariq ALmutlaq"
صحاري المملكة العربية السعودية تصوير طارق المطلق
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Rise of the galactic core taken from himatangi beach.
"A still more glorious dawn awaits
Not a sunrise, but a galaxy rise
A morning filled with 400 billion suns
The rising of the milky way"
Carl Sagan
Rise of the galactic core taken from Himatangi beach in newzealand. It took some preparation and waiting for the correct day to get the image.
Skywatcher 190MN, NEQ6 mount, Altair Tri-|Band filter, ASI294MC Pro at -20C. 19 x 5 minute exposures (1 hour 35 minutes ) at Gain 120, Offset 30, 50 dark frames, 50 flat fields and 50 dark flat frames.
Processed in Pixinsight Topaz denoise and Photoshop.
Collected between 1:05 and 2:40 on the 17th of March, 2022.
Lots of thin cloud illuminated by a bright moon.
Playing around in photoshop
made a cool galaxy flyer
credits:
Moon: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:FullMoon2010.jpg
Stars: hubblesite.org/gallery/album/entire/pr2008031a/xlarge_web/
Font: Ostrich Sans
rest made by me <3
Here is Galaxy Wataru, a resin recast of Wataru on a MH Slo Moe body. I really didn’t want to retread on a Galaxy doll custom I’ve already done so I approached it a bit differently this time and went with a different colour scheme and blushing.
I also based his eyes on 70s Anime artwork but not Takahashi’s since I want to try different things with each Wataru.
This multi-telescope composite combines X-ray, infrared and optical data of the galaxy cluster XDCPJ0044.0-2033.
The purple/pink in the image corresponds to infrared emission measured by Herschel and X-ray emission detected with NASA's Chandra telescope.
Infrared data from ESA's Herschel telescope has revealed where interstellar dust in the cluster's core is being heated by young, hot, stars. This is the first time that star formation has been found in the core of a cluster of this size and age.
The X-ray data were used to map the mass of this giant cluster.
These data have been combined with optical and near-infrared images of the cluster captured by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan's Subaru telescope and the European Southern Observatory Very Large Telescope, the data from which are coloured red, green and blue in this image.
XDCPJ0044.0-2033 is a massive galaxy cluster with an estimated mass of about four hundred thousand billion times that of our Sun. It lies at a redshift of almost 1.6, meaning that we see it as it was 9.6 billion years ago.
Read more: sci.esa.int/herschel/55150-herschel-view-of-the-early-uni...
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/INAF/P.Tozzi, et al; Optical: NAOJ/Subaru and ESO/VLT; Infrared: ESA/Herschel/J. Santos, et al.
*EXPLORED*
I’m convinced that looking through a macro lens changes one’s perspective. Perfect example is the little bell we have hanging in our kitchen ceiling. It has always been a bell but when I looked up & saw it through the lens, it became a galaxy full of possibilities :) This is my 2nd post for Macro Mondays & the theme, of course, is “looking up”.
I took over 300 pictures of the Andromeda Galaxy using my Canon EOS Ra camera and Rokinon 135mm lens to create this picture.
Each exposure was 60 seconds long on the Star Adventurer 2i star tracker.
The Sunflower Galaxy (also known as M 63 or NGC 5055) is a spiral galaxy visible in the northern constellation of Hunting Dogs; it was discovered in 1779 by Pierre Méchain, a colleague and friend of Messier and who collaborated in the writing of the famous catalogue.
The Sunflower galaxy is a spiral of the Sb or Sc type, showing an irregular spiral pattern; it appears to form a physical group with the Girandola Galaxy, the Vortex Galaxy and many other minor galaxies; it may belong to the M101 Group (subgroup of M51) . The name sunflower is due to the very large number of spiral segments that surround the nucleus, well wrapped around it and pervaded by a large number of interstellar dust clouds; the total mass of the galaxy would be between 80 and 140 billion solar masses, with a diameter of 90,000 light years, that is similar to that of our own Milky Way. The distance is estimated at 37 million light years and is moving away from us at a speed of 580 km/s.
In May 1971, a Type Ia supernova was observed in its arms, reaching an apparent magnitude of 11.8.
Constellation: Hunting Dogs
Distance from Earth: 37.000.000 light years
This shot of this magnificent galaxy was captured with two telescopes of different diameters:
TS Ritchey - Chrétien 12"
TS Apochromatic Triplet 152
For a total of 15 hours of shots.
Here's a pretty field of galaxies. In the middle is M100, about 166,000 light-years in diameter. Yes, going at the speed of light, it would take you 166,000 years to cross it. And, the light that came from that galaxy, which then hit my camera's sensor last week left that galaxy 55 million years ago.
Esprit 80mm, Player One Poseidon M camera, Sky-Watcher EQ6Rpro mount. About 18hr of integration time.
M101 Pinwheel Galaxy, HaLRGB
L 74 * 90s, 110 * 120s
R 39 * 180s, 28 * 300s
G 35 * 300s
B 44 * 300s
Ha 21 * 600s
William Optics Z61
ZWO ASI2600MM Pro
iOptron CEM60
Antlia LRGB filter set, Antila Ha 3.5nm filter
William Optics 50mm Guiding Scope
ZWO ASI120M
ZWO EAF, EFW
Nina, PixInsight, Topaz DeNoise AI
Date: 2022-10-20 22:24~26:49
Location: kamiwari-saki, Miyagi
Optics: Takahashi ε200, ASI2600mc-pro, HeuibII filter
Exposure: 180s x 70f, gain100
Mount: iOptron CEM70G
Preprocessing: Pixinsight, Photoshop
This image from Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) shows a group of galaxies, including a large distorted ring-shaped galaxy known as the Cartwheel. The Cartwheel Galaxy, located 500 million light-years away in the Sculptor constellation, is composed of a bright inner ring and an active outer ring. While this outer ring has a lot of star formation, the dusty area in between reveals many stars and star clusters.
The mid-infrared light captured by MIRI reveals fine details about these dusty regions and young stars within the Cartwheel Galaxy, which are rich in hydrocarbons and other chemical compounds, as well as silicate dust, like much of the dust on Earth.
Young stars, many of which are present in the bottom right of the outer ring, energize surrounding hydrocarbon dust, causing it to glow orange. On the other hand, the clearly defined dust between the core and the outer ring, which forms the “spokes” that inspire the galaxy’s name, is mostly silicate dust.
The smaller spiral galaxy to the upper left of Cartwheel displays much of the same behavior, showing a large amount of star formation.
Image credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Webb ERO Production Team
Image description:
A large galaxy on the right, with two smaller companion galaxies to the left 10 o’clock & 9 o’clock. The large galaxy dominates the frame. It resembles a ghostly wheel with spindly blue-white spokes revolving around a glowing core. The outer edges of the wheel are faint dots of yellow, pink and blue, with some gaps in between. The bottom right edge is marked by a large 8-pointed star. The smaller galaxies on the left look very different from each other. The top galaxy appears to be constructed of the same yellow, pink, & blue speckles as the larger galaxy’s outer ring, with a similar light blue core. Its shape is less recognizable as a spiral; it looks like a chaotic oval smattering of dots. The galaxy below it glows as one large point of blue light. It starts almost white at its core and fades outward to darker and darker blue until the color dissipates into the black behind it. Sprinkled in the black background are specks of pink, blue, yellow & orange, which are distant galaxies.
I heard you like galaxies, so I got you a galaxy in your galaxy.
Stars without number in the Milky Way, and in the upper left, Andromeda - an entire separate galaxy of its own.
The Andromeda galaxy next to the Milky Way galaxy, over a "galaxy" of lily pads. This is a single exposure. I lit the foreground with a powerful LED flashlight.
The Leo Triplet (also known as the M66 Group) is a small group of galaxies about 35 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. This galaxy group consists of the spiral galaxies M65, M66, and NGC 3628.
I must say, the new William Optics 61mm ZenithStar refractor is very capable and seems to work nicely with the ZWO ASI183MC Pro camera.
Image Details:
- Imaging Scope: William Optics 61mm ZenithStar II Doublet
- Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI183MC Color with UV/IR Blocking filter
- Guiding Scope: William Optics 66mm Petzval
- Guiding Camera: Orion Starshoot Auto Guider
- Acquisition Software: Sharpcap
- Guiding Software: PHD2
- Capture Software: SharpCap Pro (LiveStack mode with dithering)
- Light Frames: 40*4 mins @ 100 Gain, Temp -16C
- Dark Frames: 40*4 mins
- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
- Processed in PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom and Topaz Denoise AI
High-resolution imagery from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has allowed researchers to hone in on more of the Bullseye galaxy’s rings — and helped confirm which galaxy dove through its core.
LEDA 1313424, aptly nicknamed the Bullseye, is two and a half times the size of our Milky Way and has nine rings — six more than any other known galaxy. Hubble has confirmed eight rings, and data from the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii confirmed a ninth. Hubble and Keck also confirmed which galaxy dove through the Bullseye, creating these rings: the blue dwarf galaxy that sits to its immediate center-left. This relatively tiny interloper traveled like a dart through the core of the Bullseye about 50 million years ago, leaving rings in its wake like ripples in a pond. A thin trail of gas now links the pair, though they are currently separated by 130,000 light-years.
The team’s paper was published on 4 February 2025 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Credits: NASA, ESA, I. Pasha (Yale), P. van Dokkum (Yale); CC BY 4.0
Description:
The Whirlpool Galaxy is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici and lies some 23 million light years away. It's an interacting galaxy pair and was the first to be identified as a spiral galaxy. This interaction has set up waves of star formation through the compression of interstellar hydrogen gas and dust. These dust lanes are prominent features of the Whirlpool. The Whirlpool has been host to several supernovae, the most recent of which was SN2011dh.
Details:
Scope: ONTC1010 f/4 reflector
Coma corrector: Paracorr Type 2
Camera: QSI690-wsg8
Guide Camera: SX Ultrastar
Mount: AP1100
L: 27x5min 1x1 binning
RGB: 12x5min 2x2 binning each
Total exposure: 5.2 hours
Software: Voyager, PHD2, APCC, Pixinsight
This the largest photomosaic ever assembled from NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observations. It is a panoramic view of the neighbouring Andromeda galaxy, located 2.5 million light-years away. It took over 10 years to make this vast and colorful portrait of the galaxy, requiring over 600 Hubble snapshots. The galaxy is so close to us, that in angular size it is six times the apparent diameter of the full Moon, and can be seen with the unaided eye. For Hubble’s pinpoint view, that’s a lot of celestial real estate to cover. This stunning, colorful mosaic captures the glow of 200 million stars. That’s still a fraction of Andromeda’s population. And the stars are spread across about 2.5 billion pixels. The detailed look at the resolved stars will help astronomers piece together the galaxy’s past history that includes mergers with smaller satellite galaxies.
[Image description: The Andromeda galaxy, a spiral galaxy, spreads across the image. It is tilted nearly edge-on to our line of sight so that it appears very oval. The borders of the galaxy are jagged because the image is a mosaic of smaller, square images against a black background. The outer edges of the galaxy are blue, while the inner two-thirds is yellowish with a bright, central core. Dark, dusty filamentary clouds wrap around the outer half of the galaxy’s disk. At 10 o’clock, a smaller dwarf elliptical galaxy forms a fuzzy, yellow blob. Hubble’s sharp vision distinguishes about 200 million stars within the image.]
Credits: NASA, ESA, B. Williams (University of Washington); CC BY 4.0
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has snapped the best ever image of the Antennae Galaxies. Hubble has released images of these stunning galaxies twice before, once using observations from its Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) in 1997, and again in 2006 from the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). Each of Hubble’s images of the Antennae Galaxies has been better than the last, due to upgrades made during the famous servicing missions, the last of which took place in 2009. The galaxies — also known as NGC 4038 and NGC 4039 — are locked in a deadly embrace. Once normal, sedate spiral galaxies like the Milky Way, the pair have spent the past few hundred million years sparring with one another. This clash is so violent that stars have been ripped from their host galaxies to form a streaming arc between the two. In wide-field images of the pair the reason for their name becomes clear — far-flung stars and streamers of gas stretch out into space, creating long tidal tails reminiscent of antennae. This new image of the Antennae Galaxies shows obvious signs of chaos. Clouds of gas are seen in bright pink and red, surrounding the bright flashes of blue star-forming regions — some of which are partially obscured by dark patches of dust. The rate of star formation is so high that the Antennae Galaxies are said to be in a state of starburst, a period in which all of the gas within the galaxies is being used to form stars. This cannot last forever and neither can the separate galaxies; eventually the nuclei will coalesce, and the galaxies will begin their retirement together as one large elliptical galaxy. This image uses visible and near-infrared observations from Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), along with some of the previously-released observations from Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS).
M101 pinwheel Galaxy
The magnificent Messier 101 Galaxy.
This grand spiral galaxy has a diameter of 170,000 ly, and is located 21 million ly away.
The mass is approximately 100 billion solar masses. It contains 1 trillion stars.
M101 has five companion galaxies including NGC 5204, NGC 5474, NGC 5477, and NGC 5585.
Total 29 hours total exposure
New data 2022 from Telescope live.
Seven hours LRGB
SPA-2, 0.7 m RC telescope.
Officina Stellare ProRC 700, F8
FLI PL16803
And
Deep Sky West - Rowe New Mexico, using RCOS 14.5” Ritchey–Chrétien telescope f/9. 3340 mm focal length.
L 8.3 hours exposure.
RGB 5:4.6:4.3 hours
22 hours total exposure.
Transparency and Seeing very good to excellent.
March-June 2017
Processed in Pixinsight, Lightroom, Photoshop. With further processing to enhance colors.
SBIG 16803 CCD,AO-X
The distinctive Sombero galaxy sits at a distance of 29 millionLight years away from us.
This is an image taken as a 'test' in my backyard , It consists of 120sec X26 frames shot through the luminance filter of a highly sensitive CCD camera. The final picture was integrated and processed in Pixinsight.
Capture Software was Sequence Generator Pro, guided with PHD 2.6.1DEV.
Note this is a cropped version of the original (approx 25% of frame)
Wikipedia link here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sombrero_Galaxy
Any way you slice it, the Cartwheel Galaxy is magnificent to behold. The top half of this image shows the galaxy as seen by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in visible light, while the lower half of this image shows the James Webb Space Telescope's infrared view. Hubble and Webb will continue to work together to provide complementary views of the universe.
Good news: more images from Webb are on their way! But first, scientists will need time to analyze data and make sure they understand what they’re seeing. Science is a collaborative process, and you may have seen some preliminary findings from Webb data already. Before NASA can publicize news results, we have to wait for findings to be peer-reviewed — meaning that scientists have checked each other’s work.
Where can you find Webb images? What’s Webb looking at right now? Our latest blog post has it all: go.nasa.gov/3d0aGOq
Image description:
A labeled image, divided horizontally, that shows a Hubble view and Webb view of the same target. Together, the split views show a large galaxy on the right and two much smaller spiral galaxies on the left, one above the other. The top half of the image is labeled as Hubble’s view, and features the upper half of the large galaxy and one of the small galaxies. The upper half of the large galaxy looks like a bright blue ring with wispy light blue shimmers in a pattern like wheel spokes. Near the right edge of the large galaxy is a bright yellow star with four spikes. On the left, the first of the small galaxies is a similar blue as the top half of the large galaxy. The lower half of the image is labeled as Webb’s view, and features the lower half of the large galaxy and the other small galaxy. The lower half of the large galaxy looks like a pink speckled wheel, with detailed pink plumes as wheel spokes and dusty blue in between each spoke. The second of the small galaxies on the left is bluish white. While both the Hubble and Webb views feature a black background, many more distant orange-red specks, or galaxies, can be seen in the lower half of the image.
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this tiny green gentleman.
this creature.
this alien.
came to our round earth in his flying saucer one day.
upon his arrival all the scientists clamoured about him.
incased him in a tank.
put wires on his brain.
his heart.
the creature.
the alien,
he says.
I've studied your planet.
you keep your loved ones inside squares inside squares.
you work inside squares.
you move yourself about the streets lined with manmade stars inside squares.
answer my question, human.
your round head,
is it also filled with a square?
--
i had to see what the bokeh rage was all about.
D:
First attempt at this galaxy for me. Great skies last night until about 2:30am when clouds rolled in. Not bad for an 80mm ED scope on this considering it's distance and relative size.
The Black Eye Galaxy is a relatively isolated spiral galaxy 17 million light-years away in the mildly northern constellation of Coma Berenices. It was discovered by Edward Pigott in March 1779, and independently by Johann Elert Bode in April of the same year, as well as by Charles Messier the next year. It contains around 100 billion stars, about the same as our own Milky Way.
Image Details:
- Imaging Scope: Astrotelescopes ED 80mm Refractor
- Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI183MC Color with UV/IR Blocking filter
- Guiding Scope: William Optics 66mm Petzval
- Guiding Camera: Orion Starshoot Auto Guider
- Acquisition Software: Sharpcap
- Guiding Software: PHD2
- Light Frames: 30*4 minss @ 40 Gain, Temp -20C
- Stacked in Deep Sky Stacker
- Processed in PixInsight and Adobe Lightroom
Space isn’t always metal.
Here is Webb’s mid-infrared view of NGC 6822, a galactic neighbor with unusually low “metallicity.” This means it doesn’t have much in the way of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium.
Before the first generation of stars, everything had very low metallicity — stars had not yet created heavier elements. Studying a contemporary object with low metallicity, like this galaxy, can help us understand more about stars and dust in the early universe.
More: esawebb.org/images/potm2307a/
This image:
This view was captured by the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), which probes the mid-infrared, which in this case makes it perfectly suited to observe the dense regions of gas that suffuse this galaxy. At mid-infrared wavelengths the emission of light by galactic dust is prominent, obscuring the galaxy’s stars which themselves are faint at these longer wavelengths. Brilliant blue gas indicates light emitted by organic compounds called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, which play a critical role in the formation of stars and planets. Cyan marks cooler patches of dust, while warmer dust is more orange. Distant galaxies far beyond NGC 6822 are displayed in orange. The few galaxies that are relatively closer, meanwhile, are marked in green by their own light-emitting dust, which MIRI can pick out. Bright red and magenta colors indicate active areas of star formation in the galaxy. With so many stars, supernova explosions are routine, and an amazing example of a supernova remnant is visible in this image: a red ring just below the center.
Image description:
Image of galaxy NGC 6822 viewed through Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument, or MIRI. This image shows layers of billowing pale gray clouds, made up of gas and dust, on a dark field. The clouds are dense and glowing toward the center and become dark and faint towards the edges. Bright galaxies of various shapes and sizes shine through the clouds. Some stars with short, stubby spikes are spread throughout the image.
Andromeda Galaxy , Sony α6600 , Askar FMA 180mm f/4.5 , Kenko STARRY NIGHT Filter , Vixen POLARIE U , MGEN-3 , K-ASTEC PTP-C22
夜半過ぎには秋の星座が見え始めました。
今回は「夏」で攻めようと思っていたのですが、これが見え始めるとついついレンズを向けてしまいます。
この日はなんだか透明度も良く星像も小さかったです。
この写真は元々横構図で撮影していたのですが、銀河が小さく面白くなかったので大きくトリミングしています。
Askar FMA180は各収差も少なく変な色付きもないので、今後も積極的に使っていきたい望遠鏡ですね。
この望遠鏡のために小さなセンサーのカメラの導入も良いかもしれません。
ポラリエUとの組合せだと、かなりコンパクトなシステムが組めそうです。
山にも良いかも(^o^)
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“She wasn't a constellation. She was a galaxy.”
― Nitya Prakash
There are galaxies inside my mind. I have many ideas and concepts. When someone enters into my world, I feel like they are crossing through different worlds to get to me. You have to go through different galaxies to get here and there. Those swirling cosmos inside. Could they be real? I chose a light bulb to project what galaxies look like in the real-world inside of it. Almost as if it were like a crystal ball.