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Mysterious nebulae, which are millions of light years away, the birth of new stars and collisions of galaxies. Selection best photos from space Hubble telescope.
In the Large Magellan Cloud. This is one of the brightest star formations in this galaxy. Two of the cluster's components are also young, extremely hot stars. The cluster in the center is about 50 million years old, and the lower one is about 4 million years old:
Containing one of the hottest known white dwarfs, likely part of a binary star system. The speed of internal winds flowing from the stars in the center of the system, according to measurements, exceeds 1,000 kilometers per second. The Red Spider Nebula is located in the constellation Sagittarius. The distance to it is not known exactly, but according to some estimates it is about 4000 light years:
In the constellation Golden Fish.
formation of a system from clouds of gas and dust:
New image from the Hubble telescope: star system formation:
Storm of turbulent gases in the Cygnus Nebula, constellation Sagittarius. Among celestial objects, nebulae are the most diverse. Galaxies take spiral shapes, stars are spherical. And only nebulae have no law. They come in all shapes and sizes, and the variety of nebulae is endless. Nebulas are, strictly speaking, accumulations of dust and gas in interstellar space. Their shape is influenced by supernova explosions, magnetic fields, and stellar winds.
In a neighboring galaxy:
Or NGC 2070. This is an emission nebula in the constellation Doradus. Belongs to the satellite galaxy of our Milky Way - the Large Magellanic Cloud:
In the constellation Canes Venatici, which is located 37 million light years from Earth:
One of several "dust columns" nebula M16 Eagle, in which the image can be guessed mythical creature. It is about ten light years in size:
New stars and clouds of gas:
in the constellation Taurus, located at a distance of about 6,500 light years from Earth, has a diameter of 6 light years and is expanding at a speed of 1,000 km/s. At the center of the nebula is a neutron star:
Or NGC 1976. Located about 1,600 light-years from Earth and 33 light-years across. It is one of the most famous deep space objects. This is perhaps the most attractive winter object in the northern sky for astronomy lovers. Through field binoculars, the nebula is already clearly visible as a rather bright elongated cloud:
Biggest star in Orion Nebula:
Spiral galaxy NGC 5457 "Column Wheel". A large and very beautiful galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major:
An open cluster in the Small Magellanic Cloud in the constellation Tucana. It is approximately 200,000 light years away from us and has a diameter of about 65 light years:
In the constellation Ursa Major. At the center of the galaxy is a supermassive black hole, around which two less massive black holes, weighing 12 thousand and 200 suns, revolve. Now M 82 has become the most “fashionable” galaxy, since it was the first to show the existence of explosions on a galaxy scale:
Many galaxies have bars near their centers. Even our Milky Way Galaxy is thought to have a small central bar. It takes light about 60 million years to travel the distance separating us from NGC 1672. The size of this galaxy is about 75 thousand light years:
The birth of new stars in Carina Nebula NGC 3372. Located at a distance of 6,500 to 10,000 light years from Earth:
In the constellation Cygnus there is a huge and relatively dim supernova remnant. The star exploded approximately 5,000–8,000 years ago. The distance to it is estimated at 1400 light years:
An open cluster in the constellation Carina. It is located 20 thousand light years from the Sun. The center of the cluster contains thousands of stars more massive than the Sun, formed 1-2 million years ago in a single burst of star formation:
In the constellation Pisces:
Located at a distance of approximately 235 million light years (72 megaparsecs) from us in the constellation Perseus. Each cluster NGC 1275 contains from 100 thousand to 1 million stars:
Another photo galaxies NGC 1275:
Planet of the Solar System:
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The Foundations of the Universe photographs are among many thousands of images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Zoltan Livey, the lead specialist responsible for processing these images, selected the ten best. Photo: NASA; ESA; Hubble Legacy Foundation; STSCI/AURA. All images consist of superimposed and colored black and white originals. some of them are collected from many photographs.
Zoltan Livey, a leading scientist at the Space Telescope Research Institute, has been working with Hubble images since 1993. Photo: Rebecca Hale, NGM Staff
10. Cosmic fireworks. A cluster of young stars, sparkling with excess energy, forms a bright spot against the swirling clouds of cosmic dust in the Tarantula Nebula. Zoltan Livey, in charge of processing images from the Hubble Space Telescope, is amazed at the scale of the energy release: “Stars are born and die, triggering the circulation of gigantic volumes of matter.” Photo: NASA; ESA; F. Paresque, INAF-IASF, Bologna, Italy; R. O'Connell, University of Virginia; ?scientific committee for the work? with wide angle camera 3
9. Star power. This image of the Horsehead Nebula, taken in infrared using the Hubble Telescope's Wide-Field Camera 3, is striking in its clarity and abundance of detail. Nebulae are classic objects for observation in astronomy. They usually appear as dark spots against a bright background of stars, but Hubble easily cuts through clouds of interstellar gas and dust. “What else will happen when NASA launches the James Webb Infrared Space Observatory”! - Livey anticipates. Photo: Image composed? from four pictures. NASA; ESA; Hubble Legacy Foundation; STSCI/AURA
8. Galactic Waltz. Gravitational force bends a pair of spiral galaxies 300 million light-years from Earth, collectively known as Arp 273. “You know, I always imagine them dancing around,” says Leavey. “With a few more steps, after billions of years these galaxies will turn into a single whole.” Photo: NASA; ESA; Hubble Legacy Foundation; STSCI/AURA
7. Far and near. The telescope focus is set to infinity. In the photo you can see the bright stars that inhabit our Milky Way galaxy. Most of the other stars, including the star cluster below, are in the Andromeda Galaxy. The same image also included galaxies billions of light years away from us. “At first glance, it’s a completely ordinary image. But this impression is deceptive. Before you, at your fingertips, are representatives of all classes of cosmic diversity,” explains Livey. Photo: NASA; ESA; T. M. Brown; STSCI
6. Heavenly wings. Gases released top layers of a dying star, reminiscent of the lacy wings of a butterfly. Color images of unique planetary nebulae like NGC 6302 are among Hubble's most popular images. “But we shouldn’t forget that all this beauty is based on very complex physical phenomena,” says Livey. Photo: NASA; ESA; Hubble 4th Servicing Mission Team
5. Spectral vision. A ghostly ring suspended in the sky looks quite ominous, doesn't it? It is actually a gas bubble 23 light years in diameter, a reminder of the explosion supernova 400 years ago. “The simplicity of this photograph is captivating, it remains in the memory for a long time,” Livey shares his impressions. Different powers constantly act on the surface of the bubble, gradually blurring its shape. Photo: NASA; ESA; Hubble Legacy Foundation; STSCI/AURA. J. Hughes, Rutgers University
4. Light echo. In 2002, over the course of several months, scientists observed an extraordinary picture: the Hubble telescope recorded light reflected from a dust cloud surrounding the star V 838 in the constellation Monoceros. In the pictures, the cloud looks like it is expanding at tremendous speed. In fact, this effect is explained by a flash of light from the star, which illuminates increasingly larger areas of the cloud over time. “See the changes in space objects occurring throughout human life, succeeds extremely rarely,” comments Livey. Photo: NASA; ESA; H. I. Bond; STSCI
3. Take off your hat. This breathtaking image of the spiral Sombrero Galaxy, clearly visible from Earth, has, according to Livey, "a special emotional coloring." Zoltan still fondly remembers one university professor who spent nights watching this galaxy from his observatory in awe. Photo: Image compiled from six NASA images; Hubble Legacy Foundation; STSCI/AURA
2. Star Trouble. The birth and death of numerous stars has created cosmic chaos in a panoramic image of the Carina Nebula. The image was colored based on data from ground-based telescopes on the spectrum of observed chemical elements. Photo: The image is composed of thirty-two photographs. Hubble images: NASA; ESA; N. Smith, University of California, Berkeley; Hubble Legacy Foundation; STSCI/AURA Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory images: N. Smith; NOAO/AURA/NSF
1. Unsurpassed beauty. In front of you business card The Hubble telescope's image of the spiral galaxy NGC 1300 is striking in its fine detail: pale blue young stars and spiraling arms of cosmic dust are visible here. More distant galaxies are visible here and there. “This picture is fascinating,” says Livey thoughtfully. “It will captivate many forever.” Photo: Image composited from two NASA images; ESA; Hubble Legacy Foundation; STSCI/AURA. P. Knezek, WIYN
For 25 years now, humanity has been admiring photographs taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. We offer you the ten best, selected by the specialist responsible for processing images from the automatic observatory.
Text: Timothy Ferris
At first, things didn't go well. Shortly after Hubble was launched into orbit on April 24, 1990, it began to malfunction. Instead of focusing on distant galaxies, the space telescope trembled like a vampire, frightened by the sunlight. As soon as the first rays fell on its solar panels, the body of the device began to vibrate. It turns out that when the protective hatch was opened, the telescope was severely damaged and fell into an “electronic coma.”
The misfortunes did not end there: the first images revealed the “myopia” of Hubble. The main mirror with a diameter of 2.4 meters turned out to be too flat at the edges - a manufacturing defect. The problem was solved only three years later, when specialists installed an optical correction system.
In general, developers have been forced to make compromises more than once. So, scientists dreamed of a device bigger size and in higher orbit. But dimensions had to be sacrificed, otherwise Hubble would not have fit in the cargo bay of the shuttle that delivered it to the site. And so that the telescope could be serviced by astronauts, the device was placed into a 550-kilometer orbit - within the reach of space shuttles. If the observatory were installed in a higher orbit, where astronauts cannot reach, the whole undertaking risked turning into a monumental failure. The modular design of the telescope allows its main components to be repaired and replaced: cameras, on-board computer, gyroscopes and radio transmitters. Since the launch of Hubble, five expeditions have already been equipped to it, and all of them went off without a hitch.
IN track record Hubble has made many discoveries: these include supermassive black holes and the first evidence of the existence of dark matter and dark energy.Hubble expanded the horizons of human knowledge. Having provided new level clarity, it allowed astronomers to view distant worlds, looking billions of years into the past to understand how small, scattered clumps of matter in the early Universe gathered into galaxies. Hubble's track record includes many discoveries: supermassive black holes and the first evidence of the existence of dark matter and dark energy.
Studies of dim white dwarfs, impossible without the participation of Hubble, confirmed that for the formation of galaxies in the form in which we observe them now, the gravitational influence of baryonic (ordinary) matter was not enough - mysterious dark matter, the composition of which is still unknown, made its contribution . Measuring the speed of galaxies moving relative to each other led scientists to think about a mysterious force accelerating the expansion of the Universe - dark energy.
Most recently, thanks to this super-powerful telescope, it was possible to record the radiation of the oldest galaxy, more than 13 billion years old. Hubble was also involved in measuring the temperature of a “hot” planet orbiting a star 260 light years away from us.
The telescope became famous not only for its fantastic discoveries, but also for its memorable photographs of galaxies shining with a bright glow, gently illuminated nebulae and captured the last moments of the life of stars. Over the course of 25 years, photographs of the universe around us collected by Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) leading specialist Zoltan Leevey and his colleagues, according to NASA historian Stephen J. Dick, “expanded the boundaries of the very concept of “culture”.” . Space images show the world untouched beauty, evoke fantastic emotions, in no way inferior to the breathtaking views of earthly sunsets and snow-capped mountain ranges, Once again proving that nature is a single organism, and man is an integral part of it.
Hubble expanded the horizons of human knowledge. Providing a new level of clarity, it allowed astronomers to view distant worlds, looking billions of years into the past to understand how small, scattered clumps of matter in the early Universe assembled into galaxies. Hubble's track record includes many discoveries: supermassive black holes and the first evidence of the existence of dark matter and dark energy.
Studies of dim white dwarfs, impossible without the participation of Hubble, confirmed that for the formation of galaxies in the form in which we observe them now, the gravitational influence of baryonic (ordinary) matter was not enough - mysterious dark matter, the composition of which is still unknown, made its contribution . Measuring the speed of galaxies moving relative to each other led scientists to think about a mysterious force accelerating the expansion of the Universe - dark energy.
Most recently, thanks to this super-powerful telescope, it was possible to record the radiation of the oldest galaxy, more than 13 billion years old. Hubble was also involved in measuring the temperature of a “hot” planet orbiting a star 260 light years away from us.
The telescope became famous not only for its fantastic discoveries, but also for its memorable photographs of galaxies shining with a bright glow, gently illuminated nebulae and captured the last moments of the life of stars. Over the course of 25 years, photographs of the universe around us collected by Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) leading specialist Zoltan Leevey and his colleagues, according to NASA historian Stephen J. Dick, “expanded the boundaries of the very concept of “culture.” Space images show the world untouched beauty, evoke fantastic emotions, in no way inferior to the breathtaking views of earthly sunsets and snow-capped mountain ranges, once again proving that nature is a single organism, and man is an integral part of it.
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Mysterious nebulae, which are millions of light years away, the birth of new stars and collisions of galaxies. Part 2 of a selection of the best photographs from the Hubble Space Telescope. The first part is located.
This is part Carina Nebula. The total diameter of the nebula is more than 200 light years. Located 8,000 light-years from Earth, the Carina Nebula can be seen in the southern sky with the naked eye. Is one of the brightest areas in the Galaxy:
Hubble's ultra-long-range viewing area (WFC3 camera). Composed of gas and dust:
Another photo Carina Nebula:
By the way, let's get to know the culprit of today's report. This Hubble telescope in space. Placing a telescope in space makes it possible to detect electromagnetic radiation in ranges in which the earth's atmosphere is opaque; primarily in the infrared range. Due to the absence of atmospheric influence, the resolution of the telescope is 7-10 times greater than that of a similar telescope located on Earth.
The Discovery shuttle, launched on April 24, 1990, launched the telescope into its intended orbit the next day. The total cost of the project, according to estimates in 1999, amounted to 6 billion dollars on the American side and 593 million euros were paid by the European Space Agency.
Globular cluster in the constellation Centaurus. It is located 18,300 light years away. Omega Centauri belongs to our Milky Way galaxy and is its largest globular cluster known on Earth. this moment. It contains several million stars. The age of Omega Centauri is determined to be 12 billion years:
Butterfly Nebula ( NGC 6302) - planetary nebula in the constellation Scorpio. It has one of the most complex structures among the known polar nebulae. Central star of the nebula one of the hottest in the galaxy. The central star was discovered by the Hubble telescope in 2009:
The largest in the solar system. Along with Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, Jupiter is classified as a gas giant. Jupiter has at least 63 satellites. Mass of Jupiter 2.47 times the total mass of all other planets in the Solar System taken together, 318 times the mass of our Earth and approximately 1,000 times less than the mass of the Sun:
A few more images Carina Nebula:
Part of a galaxy - a dwarf galaxy located at a distance of about 50 kiloparsecs from our Galaxy. This distance is less than twice the diameter of our Galaxy:
And yet the photographs Carina Nebula some of the most beautiful:
Spiral Whirlpool Galaxy. It is located at a distance of about 30 million light years from us in the constellation Canes Venatici. The diameter of the galaxy is about 100 thousand light years:
An amazing image of a planetary planet was captured using the Hubble Space Telescope. Retina Nebula, which was formed from the remnants of the dying star IC 4406. Like most nebulae, the Retina Nebula is almost perfectly symmetrical, its right half is almost a mirror image of the left. In a few million years, all that will remain of IC 4406 is a slowly cooling white dwarf:
M27 is one of the brightest planetary nebulae in the sky and can be seen with binoculars in the constellation Vulpecula. The light takes about a thousand years to reach us from M27:
It looks like smoke and sparks from fireworks, but it's actually debris from the explosion of a star in a nearby galaxy. Our Sun and the planets of the Solar System were formed from similar debris that appeared after a supernova explosion billions of years ago in the Milky Way galaxy:
In the constellation Virgo at a distance of 28 million light years from Earth. The Sombrero Galaxy gets its name from its protruding central part (bulge) and ridge of dark matter, giving the galaxy the appearance of a sombrero hat:
The exact distance to it is unknown; according to various estimates, it can range from 2 to 9 thousand light years. Width 50 light years. The nebula's name means "divided into three petals":
Helix Nebula NGC 7293 in the constellation Aquarius at a distance of 650 light years from the Sun. One of the closest planetary nebulae and was discovered in 1824:
Located in the constellation Eridanus, at a distance of 61 million light years from Earth. The size of the galaxy itself is 110 thousand light years, which is slightly larger than our galaxy, the Milky Way. NGC 1300 is unlike some spiral galaxies, including our Galaxy, in that it does not have a massive black hole at its core:
Dust clouds in our Milky Way galaxy. Our Milky Way galaxy, also called simply the Galaxy (with a capital letter), is a giant spiral star system in which our solar system is located. The diameter of the Galaxy is about 30 thousand parsecs (about 100,000 light years) with an estimated average thickness of about 1,000 light years. The Milky Way contains, according to the lowest estimate, about 200 billion stars. There appears to be a supermassive black hole at the center of the Galaxy:
On the right, above, these are not fireworks, this is a dwarf galaxy - a satellite of our Milky Way. Located at a distance of about 60 kiloparsecs in the constellation Tucana:
Formed during the collision of four massive galaxies. This is the first time this phenomenon has been visualized using a combination of images. Galaxies are surrounded by hot gas, which is shown in the image different colors, depending on its temperature: reddish-purple is the coldest, blue is the hottest:
It is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest planet in the Solar System after Jupiter. Today we know that all four gaseous giants have rings, but Saturn's is the most prominent. Saturn's rings are very thin. With a diameter of about 250,000 km, their thickness does not reach even a kilometer. The mass of the planet Saturn is 95 times greater than the mass of our Earth:
In the constellation Dorado. The nebula belongs to the Milky Way's satellite galaxy - the Large Magellanic Cloud:
Measuring 100 thousand light years and located 35 million light years from the Sun:
And a bonus shot. From the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 00 hours 12 minutes 44 seconds Moscow time today, June 8, 2011, the ship was successfully launched "Soyuz TMA-02M". This is the second flight of the ship of the new, “digital” Soyuz-TMA-M series. Nice start:
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The planet we live on is extraordinarily beautiful. But who among us has not wondered, looking into the starry sky: what life would be like in others? solar systems in our Milky Way galaxy or in others? So far, we don't even know if there is life there. But when you see this beauty, you want to think that it’s there for a reason, that everything makes sense, that if the stars light up, it means someone needs it. The Antennae Galaxy was formed as a result of the merger of two galaxies, which began several hundred million years ago. The antenna is located 45 million light years from our solar system. Two energized jets gas flow ejected from the poles of the young star.
You can indulge yourself immediately after watching these stunning photographs of cosmic phenomena in the Universe.1
Galaxy Antenna
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Young star
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Horsehead Nebula
The Horsehead Nebula, dark in optical light, appears transparent and ethereal in infrared, shown here, with visible tints.
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Bubble Nebula
The image was taken in February 2016 using the Hubble Space Telescope.The nebula is 7 light-years across—about 1.5 times the distance from our sun to its nearest stellar neighbor, Alpha Centauri—and lies 7,100 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cassiopeia.
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Helix Nebula
The Helix Nebula is a flaming envelope of gas formed by the death of a sun-like star. The helix consists of two gaseous disks almost perpendicular to each other, and is located 690 light years away, and is one of the closest planetary nebulae to Earth.
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Jupiter's moon Io
Io is Jupiter's closest satellite.Io is about the size of our Moon and orbits Jupiterase1.8 days, while our Moon orbits the Earth every 28 days.A striking black spot on Jupiter is the shadow of Io, whichfloats across the face of Jupiter at a speed of 17 kilometers per second.
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NGC 1300
Blocked spiral galaxy NGC 1300 odiffers from normal spiral galaxies in that the arms of the galaxy do not grow all the way into the center, but are connected to the two ends of a straight bar of stars containing the core at its center.The core of the major spiral structure of the galaxy NGC 1300 shows its own unique grand spiral structure design, which is about 3,300 light years away.The galaxy is distant from usapproximately 69 million light years in the direction of the constellation Eridanus.
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Cat's Eye Nebula
Cat's Eye Nebula- one of the first planetary nebulae discovered, and one of the most complex, in observable space.A planetary nebula forms when sun-like stars carefully extract their outer gaseous layers, which form bright nebulae with amazing and complex structures..
The Cat's Eye Nebula is located 3,262 light-years from our solar system.
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Galaxy NGC 4696
NGC 4696 is the largest Galaxy in the Centaurus cluster.New images from Hubble show the dust filaments around the center of this huge galaxy in more detail than ever before.These filaments curl inward in an intriguing spiral shape around the supermassive black hole.
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Omega Centauri star cluster
The globular star cluster Omega Centauri contains 10 million stars and is the largest of the approximately 200 globular clusters orbiting our Milky Way Galaxy. Omega Centauri is located 17,000 light years from Earth.
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Galaxy Penguin
Galaxy Penguin.From our Hubble perspective, this pair of interacting galaxies resembles a penguin guarding its egg. NGC 2936, once a standard spiral galaxy, is deformed and borders NGC 2937, a smaller elliptical galaxy.The galaxies lie about 400 million light years away in the constellation Hydra.
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Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula
The Pillars of Creation - the remnants of the central part of the gas-dust Eagle Nebula in the constellation Serpens, consist, like the entire nebula, mainly of cold molecular hydrogen and dust. The nebula is located 7,000 distant light years away.
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Abell Galaxy Cluster S1063
This Hubble image shows a very chaotic Universe filled with galaxies far and near.Some are distorted like a distorted mirror due to the curvature of space, a phenomenon first predicted by Einstein a century ago.At the center of the image is the enormous galaxy cluster Abell S1063, located 4 billion light-years away.
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Whirlpool Galaxy
The graceful, sinuous arms of the majestic spiral galaxy M51 appear like a great spiral staircase sweeping through space. They are actually long lanes of stars and gas, saturated with dust.
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Stellar nurseries in the Carina Nebula
Billowing clouds of cold interstellar gas and dust rise from the raging Stellar Nursery, located 7,500 light-years away in the Southern constellation Carina.This pillar of dust and gas serves as an incubator for new stars.Hot, young stars and eroding clouds create this fantastic landscape, sending out stellar winds and scorching ultraviolet light.
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Galaxy Sombrero
The distinctive feature of the Sombrero Galaxy is its brilliant white core, surrounded by a thick layer of dust, forming the spiral structure of the galaxy. Sombrero lies on the southern edge of the Virgo Cluster and is one of the most massive objects in the group, equivalent to 800 billion suns.The galaxy is 50,000 light years across and located 28 million light years from Earth.
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Butterfly Nebula
What resemble graceful butterfly wings are actually cauldrons of gas heated to more than 36,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The gas rushes through space at more than 600,000 miles per hour. A dying star that was once about five times the mass of the Sun is at the center of this fury. The Butterfly Nebula is located in our Milky Way galaxy, approximately 3,800 light-years away in the constellation Scorpio.
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Crab Nebula
Pulse at the core of the Crab Nebula. While many other images of the Crab Nebula have focused on filaments in the outer part of the nebula, this image shows the very heart of the nebula including the central neutron star - the rightmost of the two bright stars near the center of this image. A neutron star has the same mass as the sun, but is compressed into an incredibly dense sphere several kilometers in diameter. Rotating 30 times per second, the neutron star releases beams of energy that make it appear to pulsate. The Crab Nebula is located 6,500 light years away in the constellation Taurus.
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Preplanetary nebula IRA 23166+1655
One of the most beautiful geometric shapes created in space, this image shows the formation of an unusual preplanetary nebula known as IRA 23166+1655 around the star LL Pegasi in the constellation Pegasus.
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Retina Nebula
A dying star, IC 4406 shows a high degree of symmetry; the left and right halves of the Hubble image are almost mirror images of the other. If we could fly around IC 4406 in spaceship, we would see gas and dust forming a vast donut of substantial outflow directed outward from the dying star. From Earth, we view the donut from the side. This side view allows us to see tangled tendrils of dust that have been compared to the retina of the eye. The nebula is located about 2,000 light years away, near the southern constellation Lupus.
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Monkey Head Nebula
NGC 2174 is located 6,400 light years away in the constellation Orion. The colorful region is filled with young stars trapped in bright wisps of cosmic gas and dust. This part of the Monkey Head Nebula was captured in 2014 by Hubble Camera 3.
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Spiral Galaxy ESO 137-001
This galaxy looks strange. One side of it looks like a typical spiral galaxy, while the other side appears to be destroyed. The bluish stripes stretching down and to the sides from the galaxy are clusters of hot young stars trapped in jets of gas. These scraps of matter will never return to the bosom of the mother galaxy. Like a huge fish with its belly ripped open, the galaxy ESO 137-001 roams space, losing its insides.
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Giant tornadoes in the Lagoon Nebula
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows long interstellar 'tornadoes' - eerie tubes and twisted structures - at the heart of the Lagoon Nebula, which lies 5,000 light-years in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius.
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Gravity lenses in Abell 2218
This rich galaxy cluster consists of thousands of individual galaxies and is located about 2.1 billion light-years from Earth in the Northern constellation Draco. Astronomers use gravitational lenses to powerfully magnify distant galaxies. Strong gravitational forces not only enhance images of hidden galaxies, but also distort them into long, thin arcs.
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Hubble's farthest position
Each object in this image is an individual galaxy made up of billions of stars. This view of nearly 10,000 galaxies is the deepest image of the cosmos yet. Called Hubble's “Far Farthest Field” (or Hubble's Ultra-Deep Field), this image presents a “deep” core sample of the universe shrinking across billions of light years. The image includes galaxies of various ages, sizes, shapes and colors. The smallest, reddest galaxies may be among the most distant, existing since the universe was just 800 million years old. The closest galaxies—larger, brighter, well-defined spirals and ellipticals—thrived about 1 billion years ago, when the cosmos was 13 billion years old. In stark contrast, along with the many classic spiral and elliptical galaxies, there is a zoo of oddball galaxies littering the area. Some look like toothpicks; others are like a link on a bracelet.
In ground-based photographs, the area of the sky in which galaxies live (simply one tenth of the diameter full moon) is mostly empty. The image required 800 exposures, taken over 400 Hubble orbits around the Earth. The total dwell time was 11.3 days spent between September 24, 2003 and January 16, 2004.
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1. Galaxy fireworks.
2. The center of the lenticular galaxy Centaurus A (NGC 5128). This bright galaxy is located, by cosmic standards, very close to us - “only” 12 million light years away.
3. Dwarf galaxy Large Magellanic Cloud. The diameter of this galaxy is almost 20 times smaller than the diameter of our own galaxy, the Milky Way.
4. Planetary nebula NGC 6302 in the constellation Scorpius. This planetary nebula has two more beautiful names: Bug Nebula and Butterfly Nebula. A planetary nebula forms when a star similar to our Sun sheds its outer layer of gas as it dies.
5. Reflection nebula NGC 1999 in the constellation Orion. This nebula is a giant cloud of dust and gas that reflects the light of stars.
6. Luminous Orion Nebula. You can find this nebula in the sky just below Orion's belt. It is so bright that it is clearly visible even to the naked eye.
7. The Crab Nebula in the constellation Taurus. This nebula was formed as a result of a supernova explosion.
8. Cone nebula NGC 2264 in the constellation Monoceros. This nebula is part of the system of nebulae surrounding a star cluster.
9. Planetary Cat's Eye Nebula in the constellation Draco. The complex structure of this nebula has posed many mysteries for scientists.
10. Spiral galaxy NGC 4911 in the constellation Coma Berenices. This constellation is located large cluster galaxies called the Coma cluster. Most of the galaxies in this cluster are of the elliptical type.
11. Spiral galaxy NGC 3982 from the constellation Ursa Major. On April 13, 1998, a supernova exploded in this galaxy.
12. Spiral galaxy M74 from the constellation Pisces. It has been suggested that there is a black hole in this galaxy.
13. Eagle Nebula M16 in the constellation Serpens. This is a fragment of the famous photograph taken with the help of the Hubble orbital telescope, called “The Pillars of Creation”.
14. Fantastic images of deep space.
15. Dying star.
16. Red giant B838. In 4-5 billion years, our Sun will also become a red giant, and in about 7 billion years, its expanding outer layer will reach the Earth's orbit.
17. Galaxy M64 in the constellation Coma Berenices. This galaxy resulted from the merger of two galaxies that were rotating in different directions. Therefore, the inner part of the M64 galaxy rotates in one direction, and its peripheral part rotates in the other.
18. Mass birth of new stars.
19. Eagle Nebula M16. This column of dust and gas at the center of the nebula is called the "Fairy" region. The length of this pillar is approximately 9.5 light years.
20. Stars in the Universe.
21. Nebula NGC 2074 in the constellation Dorado.
22. Triplet of galaxies Arp 274. This system includes two spiral galaxies and one irregular shape. The object is located in the constellation Virgo.
23. Sombrero Galaxy M104. In the 1990s, it was discovered that at the center of this galaxy there is a black hole of enormous mass.