Space images thread

[Drone]

In this self-portrait from 2018, Curiosity sits atop Vera Rubin Ridge, which the rover had been investigating. Directly behind the rover is the start of a clay-rich slope scientists are eager to begin exploring.

Why Is This Weird, Metallic Star Hurtling Out of the Milky Way?

BU astronomers analyzed light data from a piece of supernova shrapnel—a star called LP 40−365—to gain clues about where it came from

www.bu.edu

Hidden Supernova Spotted by Spitzer

The image shows galaxy Arp 148, captured by NASA's Spitzer and Hubble telescopes. Specially processed Spitzer data is shown inside the white circle, revealing infrared light from a supernova hidden by dust.

www.jpl.nasa.gov

 

[Drone]

Clustered at the center of this image are 6 luminous spots of light, four of them forming a circle around a central pair. Appearances can be deceiving, however, as this formation is not composed of 6 individual galaxies, but only 3: to be precise, a pair of galaxies and one distant quasar. Hubble data also indicates that there is a 7th spot of light in the very center, which is a rare 5th image of the distant quasar. This rare phenomenon is caused by the presence of two galaxies in the foreground that act as a lens.

Known as NGC 6523 or the Lagoon Nebula, M8 is a giant cloud of gas and dust where stars are born. At ~4000 ly from Earth, M8 provides astronomers an excellent opportunity to study the properties of very young stars. Many infant stars give off copious amounts of high-energy light including X-rays, which are seen in the Chandra data (pink). The X-ray data have been combined with an optical image of M8 from the Mt. Lemmon Sky Center in Arizona (blue and white).

In this 30-second exposure, a meteor streaks across the sky during the annual Perseid meteor shower, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021, as seen from Spruce Knob, West Virginia.

This infrared view of Jupiter’s icy moon Ganymede was obtained by the Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft during its July 20, 2021, flyby.

 

[Drone]

This jewel-bright image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows NGC 1385, a spiral galaxy 68 million ly away from Earth, which lies in the constellation Fornax.

Dark lines criss-cross the Chilean sky at ESO’s Paranal Observatory, making the brightest region of the Milky Way play hide-and-seek with ESO’s VISTA telescope.

 

[Drone]

ISS was orbiting 263 miles above the southeast coast of Brazil on the Atlantic Ocean into an orbital sunrise when this photograph was taken.

Galaxies and dark matter go together like peanut butter and jelly. Rarely is one without the other, but a recently discovered galaxy called NGC 1052-DF2 is nearly entirely lacking in dark matter.

How does a fish see the Milky Way? We can get a pretty good idea thanks to this picture of our galaxy, taken with a fisheye lens from the entrance of the Paranal Residencia at the Paranal Observatory’s Base Camp, located 3 km away from ESO’s Very Large Telescope.

This series of images captured on Aug. 22, 2021, shows asteroid 2016 AJ193 rotate as it was observed by Goldstone’s 70-m antenna. 1.3-km wide object was the 1001st near-Earth asteroid to be measured by planetary radar since 1968.

 

[Drone]

Eclipsed Moon at Paranal​

Globular cluster NGC 6717 lies > 20k ly from us in the constellation Sagittarius.
Globular clusters contain more stars in their centers than their outer fringes, as this image aptly demonstrates; the sparsely populated edges of NGC 6717 are in stark contrast to the sparkling collection of stars at its center.

Brilliant, Hot, Young Stars Shine in the Small Magellanic Cloud​

The Small Magellanic Cloud located 210k ly away, is one of the most dynamic and intricately detailed star-forming regions in space. At the center of the region is a brilliant star cluster called NGC 346. A dramatic structure of arched, ragged filaments with a distinct ridge surrounds the cluster.

Hurricane Ida As a Category 4 Storm​

 

[Drone]

 

[Drone]

AG Carinae — puffing dust bubbles and an erupting gas shell — the final acts of a monster star.

Northern and Southern Hemisphere at once — the whole night’s sky in one mind-bending image — something that would be impossible to see in real life.
To create this image, photographers Petr Horálek and Juan Carlos Casado took two pictures at observatories located at the same latitudes in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Once again, here is a 2160p(4K) resize of an awesome NASA photo suitable for wallpaper use!

Click to load, right click to download.

Credit to NASA for the photo, thanks to Drone for uploading it here!

 

[pyrotenax]

There are some fantastic images in this thread and I look to contribute some of mine I have collected in the near future

 

[ne6togadno]

Another aurora but this one is special as it is so bright. It is the full Moon lighting up the shadow side of Earth almost like daylight.
Credits: ESA/NASA–T. Pesquet
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original here

 

[lexluthermiester]

This happened;

Scott Manley did a video that was very informative.

That is one big boom! I feel bad for the peoples of Tonga...
There is a GoFundMe page for disaster relief.

Donate to Tonga Tsunami relief by Pita Taufatofua, organized by Pita Taufatofua

Hi All, Pita Taufatofua, the Tongan Flag Bearer here. As you all know a large … Pita Taufatofua needs your support for Tonga Tsunami relief by Pita Taufatofua

www.gofundme.com

 

[Chomiq]

Hubble Views a Galaxy with an Active Black Hole - NASA Science

This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals tendrils of dark dust threading across the heart of the spiral galaxy NGC 7172. The galaxy lies approximately 110 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Piscis Austrinus. The lane of dust threading its way across NGC 7172...

www.nasa.gov

When astronomers inspected NGC 7172 across the electromagnetic spectrum they quickly discovered that there was more to it than meets the eye: NGC 7172 is a Seyfert galaxy – a type of galaxy with an intensely luminous active galactic nucleus powered by matter accreting onto a supermassive black hole.

 

[ExcuseMeWtf]

Celebrating Hubble's 32nd Birthday with an Eclectic Galaxy Grouping - NASA Science

NASA is celebrating the Hubble Space Telescope’s 32nd birthday with a stunning look at an unusual close-knit collection of five galaxies, called The Hickson Compact Group 40. This menagerie includes three spiral-shaped galaxies, an elliptical galaxy, and a lenticular (lens-like) galaxy. Somehow...

www.nasa.gov

On video:

 

[Space Lynx]

 

[ExcuseMeWtf]

Awesome video from Astrum

 

[BetrayerX]

 

[Bones]

Amazing images in this thread, and I downloaded a bunch to use with my desktop background changer.

To contribute, I recently downloaded 73 images from the Webb Space Images website, and created a very simple web page to view and download them. Clicking any image will load a 1280x720 version in a new page, which you can save by right-clicking. There is also a link to download a 72 MB zip file that contains all the images displayed.

Download Webb Telescope Images

Not intentially trying to be rude but I'm not downloading any content from a brandnew (unknown to us/the forum) user, esp with all the hacker bullshit going on these days.

Would be better if you simply posted a few images like the rest have already, self included.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Not intentially trying to be rude but I'm not downloading any content from a brandnew (unknown to us/the forum) user, esp with all the hacker bullshit going on these days.

Would be better if you simply posted a few images like the rest have already, self included.

It's a safe site. Harmless PNG files.

Amazing images in this thread, and I downloaded a bunch to use with my desktop background changer.

To contribute, I recently downloaded 73 images from the Webb Space Images website, and created a very simple web page to view and download them. Clicking any image will load a 1280x720 version in a new page, which you can save by right-clicking. There is also a link to download a 72 MB zip file that contains all the images displayed.

Download Webb Telescope Images

Welcome to TPU!

 

[Zieder]

Not intentially trying to be rude but I'm not downloading any content from a brandnew (unknown to us/the forum) user, esp with all the hacker bullshit going on these days.

Would be better if you simply posted a few images like the rest have already, self included.

I never considered that, but yeah, there was a Webb image floating around that had a virus embedded in the image code. Oh well, people can just download them one at a time like I did!

 

[Bones]

I never considered that, but yeah, there was a Webb image floating around that had a virus embedded in the image code. Oh well, people can just download them one at a time like I did!

TBH that's probrably the best way.
Again, too much hack-crap going around to blindly trust every and anything you see and that's why I said it.

And I'll also say this, a website with the name "Hummingbirdhealingcenter..whatever" doesn't do much to instill confidence in it's validity as a safe place.
For my part - Not going there.

Be careful out there.

 

[Zieder]

TBH that's probrably the best way.
Again, too much hack-crap going around to blindly trust every and anything you see and that's why I said it.

And I'll also say this, a website with the name "Hummingbirdhealingcenter..whatever" doesn't do much to instill confidence in it's validity as a safe place.
For my part - Not going there.

Be careful out there.

I deleted the post. Thanks for the feedback. It was an easy way to make it available as I had a similar page on the website. Rather naive of me, as I am very careful myself. I certainly will not do that again!

 

[Ahhzz]

I deleted the post. Thanks for the feedback. It was an easy way to make it available as I had a similar page on the website. Rather naive of me, as I am very careful myself. I certainly will not do that again!

No worries. Being a tech place, people are a little more wary than most heheh. I did check the links, and the 3 or 4 I clicked looked nice thanks for putting them up there! hang a while, there's tons of info in these threads!

 

[ExcuseMeWtf]

Fascinating video by Astrum on Hubble:

 

[lexluthermiester]

Fascinating video by Astrum on Hubble:

I just watched that a few hours ago. Good info!

 

[unwind-protect]

Fascinating video by Astrum on Hubble:

I'm surprised this isn't below the minimum focusing distance of this telescope.