Space images thread

[biffzinker]

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

Was there a news article? I was curious if there was anymore said about it.

Nvm, I searched for it.

 

[Drone]

It was on twitter with link to the image and they said that the research is ongoing. They also stated that the star is very unstable and will likely collapse into a neutron star within 10000 years.

 

[ExcuseMeWtf]

Is it just me or was Sun really flaring up in December?

 

[lexluthermiester]

Is it just me or was Sun really flaring up in December?

Not to any unusual degree. Why do you ask?

 

[Drone]

 

[biffzinker]

Thank you for sharing those videos. @Drone

 

[ExcuseMeWtf]

Not to any unusual degree. Why do you ask?

It seems higher than in past months of the year.

Because why not? Did this question offend you in some way?

 

[the54thvoid]

He probably asked because, by inference from your post, you perhaps had evidence to illustrate the point. I.e, you'd noticed something during observation, or in the press. Likely a curiosity, to delve deeper.

I doubt any offence was caused.

 

[ExcuseMeWtf]

What kind of additional evidence would you expect? Wasn't it apparent on the video itself?

Actually perhaps not, as googling shows.

Top 50 solar flares of the year 2020 | Solar activity

On this page you will find an overview of the strongest solar flares of the year 2020 together with links to more information in our archive and a video (if available) of the event.

www.spaceweatherlive.com

There were indeed more intense solar flares towards the end of the year, also in November.

Guess I missed those, or they were on not observed side of the Sun.

Hoped someone will take up the thread in constructive manner, but I guess it's just me doing so then.

 

[Drone]

Captured with the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), this image of the distant spiral galaxy NGC 1097 shows a textbook example of a star-bursting nuclear ring. Located 45 million ly away from Earth, in the constellation of Fornax, this ring lies at the very center of its galaxy. It spans only 5000 ly across, being dwarfed by the full size of its host galaxy, which extends some tens of thousands of ly beyond its center.

 

[lexluthermiester]

It seems higher than in past months of the year.

Because why not? Did this question offend you in some way?

Not at all. Solar activity is not any different than in past trends observed. That's why I asked. Was thinking that perhaps you had seen something not commonly or publicly disclosed.

 

[Drone]

Hubble takes portrait of the ‘Lost Galaxy’ NGC 4535 located in the constellation of Virgo, around 50 million ly from Earth.

The road to ESO’s La Silla Observatory in the Chilean Atacama Desert appears to curve around the mountain and collide with the downward slope of the Milky Way.

The Miñiques volcano complex near Chajnantor

 

[Drone]

The tip of the "wing" of the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy is dazzling in this 2013 view from NASA's Great Observatories. The Small Magellanic Cloud, or SMC, is a small galaxy ~ 200000 ly way that orbits our own Milky Way spiral galaxy.

ESO 455-10 - planetary nebula, located in the constellation of Scorpius.

M1-63 - bipolar planetary nebula located in the constellation of Scutum.

Moon from ISS

NGC 6902 - spiral galaxy located > 130 million ly away in the constellation of Sagittarius. This image was taken with Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer instrument attached to one of the four 8.2-metre telescopes that make up the VLT, and shows the galaxy from a unique perspective. A zoom in towards the galaxy’s center, the image shows a nuclear ring where the orange glow of intense star formation is visible.

 

[Drone]

Hubble Space Telescope picture of NGC 4826 — a spiral galaxy located 17 million light-years away in the constellation of Coma Berenices.

This view of Jupiter's turbulent atmosphere from NASA's Juno spacecraft includes several of the planet's southern jet streams.

SU Aur, a star much younger and more massive than the Sun, is surrounded by a giant planet-forming disc. This image, captured by the SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), shows the disc around SU Aur in unprecedented detail, including the long dust trails connected to it.

The star itself is obscured by the instrument’s coronagraph, a device that blocks the light from the central star to allow the less bright features around it to stand out.

The dust trails are composed of material from an encompassing nebula flowing into the disc. This nebula is likely the outcome of a collision between the star and a huge cloud of gas and dust, resulting in the unique shape of this planet-forming disc and the surrounding dust structure.

 

[Drone]

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe captured stunning views of Venus during its close flyby of the planet in July 2020.

This 2003 composite X-ray (blue and green) and optical (red) image of the active galaxy, NGC 1068, shows gas blowing away in a high-speed wind from the vicinity of a central supermassive black hole.
Regions of intense star formation in the inner spiral arms of the galaxy are highlighted by both optical and X-ray emission.

 

[Drone]

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope picture of NGC4826 — a spiral galaxy located 17 million ly away in the constellation of Coma Berenices.

Astronomers May Have Found The First Evidence For Tectonic Activity On An Exoplanet

"It's tectonics, but not as we know it." Computer simulations of the rocky exoplanet LHS 3844b show it may have a tectonic cycle and volcanism very unlike Earth.

www.forbes.com

 

[Drone]

Hubble views NGC 1947 - a galaxy with faint threads​

Located ~ 5k ly away in the constellation of Cygnus, Abell 78 is an unusual type of planetary nebula.

Astronomers find supermassive black hole on the move

Astronomers at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian have detected a moving supermassive black hole.

news.harvard.edu

IMAGE RELEASE: Cosmic Lens Reveals Faint Radio Galaxy - National Radio Astronomy Observatory (nrao.edu)

 

[Ahhzz]

Anyone seen this guy's project? 1250 hours of Galaxy exposures.... absolutely gorgeous....

Photographer Spends 12 Years, 1250 Hours, Exposing Photo of Milky Way

Finnish astrophotographer J-P Metsavainio has released a Milky Way photo that took him nearly 12 years to create. The 1.7-gigapixel image has a cumulative

petapixel.com

 

[Drone]

Decades-Old NASA Data Reveals Midsize Black Hole | Quanta Magazine

The ‘Camel’ Supernova Reveals the Birth of a Black Hole | Quanta Magazine

Hot bubble of hydrogen gas — named Sh 2-305

Filaments of ionized gas — named Veil Nebula

 

[Drone]

 

[ExcuseMeWtf]

New image of Apophis which up to this point was among the most likely to collide and cause some damage. Allowed us to calculate its path more accurately, and we're safe for at least next century.

| EarthSky

earthsky.org

 

[Drone]

This view shows ESO’s Paranal Observatory, home to the behemoth Very Large Telescope.

This image was taken with the FORS2 instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in late 2019, when comet 2I/Borisov passed near the Sun.

Since the comet was travelling at breakneck speed, ~ 175000 km/h, the background stars appeared as streaks of light as the telescope followed the comet’s trajectory. The colors in these streaks give the image some disco flair and are the result of combining observations in different wavelength bands, highlighted by the various colors in this composite image.

A sea of dark dunes, sculpted by the wind into long lines, surrounds Mars' northern polar cap and covers an area as big as Texas. In this false-color image, areas with cooler temperatures are recorded in bluer tints, while warmer features are depicted in yellows and oranges. Thus, the dark, sun-warmed dunes glow with a golden color. This image covers an area 30 km wide.

This scene combines images taken during the period from December 2002 to November 2004 by the Thermal Emission Imaging System instrument on the Mars Odyssey orbiter. It is part of a special set of images marking the 20th anniversary of Odyssey, the longest-working Mars spacecraft in history. The pictured location on Mars is 80.3° north latitude, 172.1° east longitude.

 

[Drone]

Milky Way Across the Desert

News - Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics - The University of Manchester

Keep up to date with the latest news from the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at The University of Manchester, the home of University astronomy research.

www.jodrellbank.manchester.ac.uk

X-ray image of the sky by Russian-German X-ray observatory Spektr-RG

ИКИ РАН. Путешествие по рентгеновскому небу с телескопом «Спектр-РГ» - Новости - Госкорпорация «Роскосмос» (roscosmos.ru)

 

[Drone]

Curiosity's view of Mont Mercou

Spectacular jets are powered by the gravitational energy of a supermassive black hole in the core of the elliptical galaxy Hercules A. The jets shoot through space for millions of trillions of km.

 

[Drone]

To celebrate the 21st anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope's deployment into space, astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., pointed Hubble's eye at an especially photogenic pair of interacting galaxies called Arp 273.

In this image that astronaut Scott Kelly posted to Twitter on Aug. 9, 2015 during his #YearInSpace captures all the the places humans dwell – the Earth, the ISS and the Milky Way.

This panoramic selfie was taken on 9 April 2016 by ESO Photo Ambassador Petr Horálek.

This image shows a close-up portrait of the magnificent spiral galaxy NGC 4603, which lies > 100 million ly away in the constellation of Centaurus.