Space images thread

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Years after we detected two neutron stars crashing into each other, we're still picking up X-rays. We don't know why

'Discovering a new type of celestial source is very exciting' lead astroboffin tells us

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Pack your bags! Astroboffins spot 24 'superhabitable' exoplanets better than Earth at supporting complex life

Just a short 100 or more light years away

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Supermassive black hole turns unlucky star into spaghetti

Pasta la vista, baby

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Free-floating Evaporating Gaseous Globule J025157.5+600606

Officially known as IC 63, this nebula is located 550 ly away in the constellation Cassiopeia the Queen.

Just below the surface, about 1/3 of Mars is covered in ice.

 

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New theory on the origin of Dark Matter

A recent study from the University of Melbourne proposes a new theory for the origin of dark matter, helping experimentalists in Australia and abroad in the search for the mysterious new matter.

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The puzzle of the strange galaxy made of 99.99% dark matter is solved

At present, the formation of galaxies is difficult to understand without the presence of a ubiquitous, but mysterious component, termed dark matter. Astronomers have measure how much dark matter there is around galaxies, and have found that it varies between 10 and 300 times the quantity of...

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Astronomers say Milky Way has a clumpy halo

They suggest this heated halo was the incubator for our galaxy’s formation some 10 billion years ago.

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Hanging above the pair of telescopes is the constellation of Orion, identifiable by his distinctive star-studded belt.

In this spectacular image captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, the galaxy NGC 2799 (on the left) is seemingly being pulled into the center of the galaxy NGC 2798 (on the right).

 

[lexluthermiester]

This is not an image per se, but it is a great series of them;

 

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Impact Craters Reveal Details of Titan's Dynamic Surface Weathering - NASA

New research on nine craters of Saturn’s largest moon provides more details about how weathering affects the evolution of the surface – and what lies beneath.

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Hubble Finds ‘Greater Pumpkin’ Galaxy Pair - NASA Science

Sorry Charlie Brown, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is taking a peek at what might best be described as the "Greater Pumpkin," that looks like a Halloween

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NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s snapshot of NGC 34 galaxy.

ESO’s New Technology Telescope (NTT) has captured the familiar sight of three of our planetary neighbors as limited science operations restart at La Silla Observatory, located in the Chilean Atacama desert.

This image is a blend of 171 and 193 angstrom light as captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory.

 

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Galaxy UGCA 193

Galaxy UGC 12588

Image of the galaxy LRG-3-817 is distorted by the effects of gravitational lensing.

 

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This image is a blend of 171 and 193 angstrom light as captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory.

Devil's Night? Sun's def. got a Halloween grin on his face

 

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Perspective view of chaotic terrain in Mars' Pyrrhae Regio

Blue Ring Nebula

To the right of this image captured in northern Chile, the eye-catching arc of the Milky Way soars above the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA).

 

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Galaxy IC 5063
distance: 156 million ly from Earth

The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich spacecraft lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4 at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, Nov. 21, 2020, at 12:17 p.m. EST.

 

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Am I reading this right? Do we believe we've got a 9th planet ice giant way way out?

Born eccentric: Constraints on Jupiter and Saturn’s pre-instability orbits

An episode of dynamical instability is thought to have sculpted the orbital structure of the outer solar system. When modeling this instability, a key…

www.sciencedirect.com

Where were Jupiter and Saturn born?

New findings refine our understanding of the forces that determined our Solar System’s unusual architecture.

carnegiescience.edu

 

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Do we believe we've got a 9th planet ice giant way way out?

I'm Old School and as far as i am concerned

" After Pluto was discovered in 1930 it was declared to be the ninth planet from the Sun. "

 

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I'm Old School and as far as i am concerned

" After Pluto was discovered in 1930 it was declared to be the ninth planet from the Sun. "

I won't disagree with you Maybe I should have said "another planet" heheh

 

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@dorsetknob Pluto perfectly satisfies Titius–Bode law so it's kinda planet but so does Ceres. Therefore Ceres should be called planet too.

 

[lexluthermiester]

While this is not an image, it is directly related to imagery. Very exciting potential!!

 

[metalfiber]

The ninth planet has been referred to as Planet X for a long time...

The race to find Planet X heats up

Teams of scientist are vying to find the hypothetical Planet X in the distant reaches of the solar system.

www.axios.com

The search for Planet X gets a boost with the discovery of a super distant object

The edge of our cosmic neighborhood is slowly coming into focus

www.theverge.com

Edit: oop's, a little off topic.

 

[lexluthermiester]

@dorsetknob Pluto perfectly satisfies Titius–Bode law so it's kinda planet but so does Ceres. Therefore Ceres should be called planet too.

I'm cool with that. I've been suggesting exactly this for decades.

 

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HUBBLE CAPTURES UNPRECEDENTED FADING OF STINGRAY NEBULA

This large expanse of space captured with the Hubble Space Telescope features the galaxy SDSSJ225506.80+005839.9.

Lying inside our home galaxy this object is a turbulent birthing ground for new stars in a region known as the Orion B molecular cloud complex, located 1350 ly away.

ESO’s Paranal Observatory, Chile.

 

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The Hubble Space Telescope captured a crowd of stars M107 (one of >150 globular star clusters found around the disc of the Milky Way).

This image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, depicts GAL-CLUS-022058s (largest and one of the most complete Einstein rings ever discovered in our Universe).

The Moon, left, Saturn, upper right, and Jupiter, lower right, are seen after sunset with the Washington Monument, Thurs. Dec. 17, 2020, in Washington.

The antennas comprising the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array appear to emit an eerie, vivid shade of green light.
The light emanates from indicator lights, which show whether or not it is safe for staff to approach the antennas. A green light as pictured indicates that it’s safe to approach.

 

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(largest and one of the most complete Einstein rings ever discovered in our Universe)

Otherwise known as gravity lensing.

 

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This news image from the VLTI is 21000 times more zoomed in than the original image of the Toby Jug Nebula.

Lenticular galaxy NGC 1947

Thousands of sparkling young stars are nestled within the giant nebula NGC 3603, one of the most massive young star clusters in the Milky Way.
NGC 3603, a prominent star-forming region in the Carina spiral arm of the Milky Way ~ 20000 ly away, reveals stages in the life cycle of stars.


JAXA shows the sub-surface samples it collected from asteroid Ryugu | Engadget

 

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Galaxy NGC 613

Galaxy NGC 6946

 

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NASA’s Curiosity Rover Reaches Its 3000th Day on Mars​

Jupiter

This image shows a new type of star that has never been seen before in X-ray light. This strange star formed after two white dwarfs – remnants of stars like our Sun – collided and merged. But instead of destroying each other in the event, the white dwarfs formed a new object that shines bright in X-ray light.

Galaxy cluster Abell 2261 located ~ 2.7 billion ly from Earth.

Inside star cluster NGC 602, a star-forming region in the Small Magellanic Cloud, bright, blue, newly formed stars are blowing a cavity in this nebula, sculpting the inner edge of its outer portions, slowly eroding it away and eating into the material beyond. The diffuse outer reaches of the nebula prevent the energetic outflows from streaming away from the cluster. Elephant trunk–like dust pillars point toward the hot blue stars and are telltale signs of their eroding effect. Star formation started at the center of the cluster and propagated outward, with the youngest stars still forming today along the dust ridges.

 

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This image shows a new type of star that has never been seen before in X-ray light. This strange star formed after two white dwarfs – remnants of stars like our Sun – collided and merged. But instead of destroying each other in the event, the white dwarfs formed a new object that shines bright in X-ray light.

Where did you find this?

 

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^ Image was made by ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray telescope.