Our Home: The Milky Way Galaxy (III)

Our Home: The Milky Way Galaxy (III)

The photograph is a computer generated image of our Milky Way galaxy by mapping data obtained from a wide variety of electromagnetic waves originating from various sites on the Milky Way star complex in our night sky. The image revealed a bar -shaped core made up of...
Our “Home”

Our “Home”

This galaxy pictured at right is not “our” home; but, in many ways it is very similar to our real home, the Milky Way galaxy. This image is of a beautiful spiral galaxy called NGC 6744. Like our Milky Way galaxy, NGC 6744 is composed of dusty spiral arms containing...
About Bill Merrifield

About Bill Merrifield

William “Bill” Merrifield is a native of the State of Colorado. He was born in Denver in 1930 during the Great Depression of very hard working parents who painfully struggled to make ends meet and provide for him and his sisters. William was educated in Denver and...