Space images thread

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This Picture of the Week captures the Milky Way streaking across the skies above the Chilean Atacama Desert.

Spiral galaxy NGC 4651

 

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Galaxy NGC 2273

Appearing as strings of orange dots, the brightest sets of dots belong to asteroids Klotho & Lina. Both orbit out in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, while smaller, more distant asteroids can also be seen passing through the image.

In this Hubble Space Telescope infrared image, researchers revisited one of Hubble's most iconic and popular images: the Eagle Nebula’s Pillars of Creation.

This 2010 image from the Herschel Space Observatory shows dust clouds associated with the Rosette Nebula, a stellar nursery ~ 5k ly from Earth in the Monoceros constellation. Herschel collected the infrared light given out by dust. The bright smudges are dusty cocoons containing massive embryonic stars, which will grow up to 10 times the mass of our Sun. The small spots near the center of the image are lower mass stellar embryos. The nebula itself is located to the right of the picture, along with its massive cluster of stars.

NASA’s Juno mission captured this look at Jupiter’s tumultuous northern regions during the spacecraft’s close approach to the planet on Feb. 17, 2020.

 

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BepiColombo, the first European-Japanese spacecraft to hopefully orbit Mercury, has swung by Earth for its first gravitational assist maneuver in its seven-year journey to the innermost planet of our Solar System.

 

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Spiral Galaxy NGC 2906

Soyuz MS-16 lifts off from Site 31 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Thursday, April 9, 2020

> 100000 times the mass of the Sun, the Brick doesn’t seem to be forming any massive stars—yet. But based on its immense mass in such a small area, if it does form stars—as scientists think it should—it would be one of the most massive star clusters in the Milky Way galaxy.

 

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This classic photograph of the Earth was taken on Dec. 7, 1972, by the crew of Apollo 17.

Shooting Star over ESO Telescopes

Dwarf elliptical galaxy PGC 29388

 

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Milky Way stretching over the Very Large Telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory, demonstrating the astounding level of detail visible in the night sky from this remote site in the Chilean Atacama Desert.

Known as NGC 4100, the galaxy boasts a neat spiral structure and swirling arms speckled with the bright blue hue of newly formed stars.

 

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Short answer; No.

 

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Nasa images reveal Comet Atlas shattering into pieces

Latest images from the Hubble Telescope prove that Comet Atlas has broken up but they also show that it is putting on a light display as it crumbles.

www.bbc.co.uk

Exciting new images of Comet Atlas as it flies towards Earth have been released by Nasa and the European Space Agency.
Astronomers had thought it could be one of the brightest comets to fly past Earth in years.
However, the comet has been getting dimmer recently leading to concerns that it was actually breaking up into pieces.
Now, these latest images by the Hubble Space Telescope prove that the object has broken up but they also show that it is putting on a light display as it crumbles.
"This is really exciting — both because such events are super cool to watch and because they do not happen very often," said Quanzhi Ye from the University of Maryland, who is one of those responsible for the new images.
"Most comets that fragment (break up) are too dim to see. Events at such scale only happen once or twice a decade."
The break up of comets are hard to predict, and usually happen very quickly, making it hard for astronomers to know what causes it.
Comet Atlas will keep flying through space and will get as near as 115 million kilometres to Earth around late May, before shooting off towards the Sun.

 

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A spectacle over La Silla

Asteroid 2020 HS7 observed by the Tautenburg Observatory on 28 April 2020

A barred spiral galaxy called NGC 3583

 

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This 2018 composite of the Crab Nebula was made with data from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory (blue and white), Hubble Space Telescope (purple), and Spitzer Space Telescope (pink). The star that exploded to create the Crab Nebula was first seen from Earth in 1054 A.D.

 

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~ 85 million ly from Earth, in the constellation of Libra, is the beautiful intermediate spiral galaxy NGC 5861, captured here by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

 

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Jupiter in IR EMR. Oh yeah!

 

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Astronomers finally detect the harmonic heartbeat of wayward musical stars

The discovery of hypnotic rhythms pulsating from an enigmatic group of delta Scuti stars is music to astronomers.

www.abc.net.au

 

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Dwarf irregular galaxy ESO 461-036

Pair of interacting galaxies known as Arp 271

The crew of the ISS snapped this image of a typhoon in the South Pacific Ocean on May 13, 2020.

 

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Pair of interacting galaxies known as Arp 271

This one is very cool!

 

[Drone]

This one is very cool!

True, a pair of interacting galaxies is amazing. Can't wait when Milky Way meets Andromeda!

 

[lexluthermiester]

True, a pair of interacting galaxies is amazing. Can't wait when Milky Way meets Andromeda!

We need to solve that pesky death problem so we can live long enough to see it. Either that or make a time-dilation machine to zap ourselves to the future. LOL!

 

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NGC 3895 is a barred spiral galaxy that was first spotted by William Herschel in 1790.

Jupiter

Extremely rare 'cosmic ring of fire' discovered in the early universe

Galaxies are burnin' things and sometimes they make a fiery ring.

www.cnet.com

 

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Scientists confirm there is ‘an Earth’ around our nearest star

The planet, called Proxima b, is approximately 4.2 light years away. If it has water and oxygen, it could potentially be home to alien life

www.independent.co.uk

The Demo-2 mission is the first launch with astronauts of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program.

Almost like snowflakes, the stars of the globular cluster NGC 6441 sparkle peacefully in the night sky, ~ 13k ly from the Milky Way’s galactic center. Like snowflakes, the exact number of stars in such a cluster is difficult to discern. It is estimated that together the stars weigh 1.6 million times the mass of the Sun, making NGC 6441 one of the most massive and luminous globular clusters in the Milky Way.

 

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Amateur astroboffins spot young brown dwarf playing with planet-forming hula hoop just 102 parsecs from Earth

Closest example yet of substellar object

www.theregister.com

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Hubble Makes Surprising Find in the Early Universe

hubblesite.org

This view of sample site Osprey on asteroid Bennu is a mosaic of images collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on May 26.

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Seen here in incredible detail, thanks to Hubble Space Telescope, is the starburst galaxy formally known as PLCK G045.1+61.1. The galaxy, which appears as multiple reddish dots near the center of the image, is being gravitationally lensed by a cluster of closer galaxies, also seen in the image.

Earth and Venus from Mars (Curiosity)

Four newborn exoplanets get cooked by their sun

Scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) examined the fate of the young star V1298 Tau and its four orbiting exoplanets.

www.aip.de

 

[Caring1]

I'm genuinely curious why some spiral galaxies spin anti-clockwise, and others spin clockwise.
Any ideas on this?

 

[ne6togadno]

you look at them from the wrong side.