Space images thread

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@erocker Thanks!

Massive galaxy M87

This galaxy contains a giant black hole at its core that is producing massive jets of energetic particles.

 

[micropage7]

@erocker Thanks!

Massive galaxy M87

This galaxy contains a giant black hole at its core that is producing massive jets of energetic particles.

very ghosty effect

 

[Drone]

very ghosty effect

Radio and X-ray emission from ionized gas looks ghostly indeed.

Abell 1758 (composite and X-ray)

 

[Drone]

Like sentries guarding the heart of our home galaxy, the ESO 3.6-metre telescope and the Coudé Auxiliary Telescope stand tall in this stunning ultra high definition photograph from the La Silla Observatory, situated in the southern outskirts of the Chilean Atacama Desert.

 

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NGC 4388

The extended pink filamentary structure in this image is due to gas ionized by the radiation from the nucleus of the galaxy.
The vertical lines are caused by detector saturation of bright objects.

 

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Boomerang Nebula is located ~ 5kly from Earth in the constellation Centaurus

 

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Dancing Luhman 16AB Brown Dwarfs

 

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R Aquarii is a system containing a white dwarf and a “Mira” variable red giant in orbit around each other.

 

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New video and image

 

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The blend of xenon found at the Comet 67/P closely resembles the primordial mixture that scientists believe was brought to our planet during the early stages of Solar System formation. These measurements suggest that comets contributed ~ 1/5 of the xenon in Earth's ancient atmosphere.

Iapetus is a world of contrast, with light and dark regions fitting together like cosmic puzzle pieces.

Jet and accretion disk in the HH 212 protostellar system

 

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On the right lies the faint, glowing cloud of gas called Sharpless 2-54, the iconic Eagle Nebula is in the centre, and the Omega Nebula to the left.

Download full-size original (Warning: Size = 10 GB)

 

[Ahhzz]

Download full-size original (Warning: Size = 10 GB)

That will be my new 3-screen background this weekend, thank you

 

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@Ahhzz haha, not a problem XD

New videos:

 

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Acting as a 'natural telescope' in space, the gravity of the extremely massive foreground galaxy cluster MACS J2129-0741 magnifies, brightens, and distorts the far-distant background galaxy MACS2129-1 [top box]. The middle box is a blown-up view of the gravitationally lensed galaxy. The bottom box is a reconstructed image, based on modeling, that shows what the galaxy would look like if the galaxy cluster were not present. The galaxy appears red because it's so distant that its light is shifted into the red part of the spectrum.

 

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