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Boomer12k wrote:
40 million years ago....

how many Supernova, and Planetary Nebula have come and gone in that time?

• Julius Caesar Act III, scene I

• Shall this our lofty scene be acted over
  In states unborn and accents yet unknown!

• That now on Pompey's basis lies along
  No worthier than the dust!

• So often shall the knot of us be call'd
  The men that gave their country liberty.

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1990/10/was-the-bard-behind-it/308480/ wrote: Was the Bard Behind It?
Old light on the Lincoln assassination
by John F. Andrews, _The Atlantic_ October 1990 Issue

<<The man who fired the most notorious shot in the [Civil War] struggle bore the name of an 18th-century British radical, John Wilkes, who had supported the secessionist rebellion that established a new nation on these shores. There can be little doubt that John Wilkes Booth looked to his contentious predecessor for inspiration during the Confederacy’s effort to sever unwanted political bonds. But Booth responded to even deeper stirrings, with a more classical source. His father, the eminent Junius Brutus Booth, had been given a name that identified him with both the legendary founder of the Roman Republic (Lucius Junius Brutus) and the descendant who fought to preserve that republic half a millennium later (Marcus Junius Brutus). The elder Booth in turn had bestowed the same appellation on the oldest of his American-born sons, three of whom were destined to follow him into the theater.

[In November of 1864] John Wilkes Booth (as Mark Antony) spoke the eulogy for Brutus at the end of Shakespeare's Roman tragedy. The occasion was a benefit in which he and his brothers performed Julius Caesar to raise funds for a Central Park statue to commemorate the three-hundredth anniversary of the playwright’s birth. The production took place in New York’s Winter Garden Theatre, and it was attended by an enthusiastic audience of more than 2,000. Junius Brutus Booth the younger portrayed Cassius. Edwin played Brutus.

Subsequent developments would suggest that the youngest of these actors was in the wrong part for an evening that one observer later described as “too strikingly historic to be soon forgotten.” But it may have occurred to him even then that he was in the right play. And how carefully he must have listened as he heard his oldest brother describe the timelessness of a scene that was soon to be remounted in another lofty setting, not far from the White House.

Other members of the Booth family were strong supporters of the Union. In fact, Edwin Booth had saved Robert Todd Lincoln from a near-fatal accident, when the President’s son slipped between a departing train and a railway platform in Jersey City. His alertness earned Edwin a letter of gratitude from General Ulysses S. Grant and solidified the warm regard of the President, who saw him perform several times and who counted himself among the actor’s most ardent admirers.>>

Boomer12k wrote:40 million years ago.... how many Supernova, and Planetary Nebula have come and gone in that time?

geckzilla wrote:

captainwiggins48 wrote:Are there multiple nuclei? Looks like more than one.

Only one. It's difficult to see unless we adjust the brightness to make it easier to examine the nucleus. Once we do that it's very clear.

geckzilla wrote:

captainwiggins48 wrote:
Are there multiple nuclei? Looks like more than one.

• Only one.

It's difficult to see unless we adjust the brightness to make it easier to examine the nucleus.

• Unfortunately, though,
  NGC 5033's nucleus is displaced from its kinematic center such that it "teeters crazily".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_5033 wrote:

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<<Integral field spectroscopic observations of the center of NGC 5033 indicate that the Seyfert nucleus is not located at the kinematic center of the galaxy (the point around which the stars in the galaxies rotate). This has been interpreted as evidence that this galaxy has undergone a merger. The displacement of the Seyfert nucleus from the kinematic center may destabilize the rotation of gas in the center of the galaxy, which could cause gas to fall into the Seyfert nucleus. The gas would be compressed by the enormous gravitational forces in the center of the Seyfert nucleus and become hot, thus making the nucleus appear bright or "active".>>

captainwiggins48 wrote:Are there multiple nuclei? Looks like more than one.