Space images thread

[Drone]

The Superwind Galaxy NGC 4666 is located ~ 80 million ly from Earth. Gravitational interactions between NGC 4666 and NGC 4668 (to the lower left) triggered intense star formation.

Galaxy M74.

Bright pink (HII) regions decorating the spiral arms are huge and relatively short-lived, clouds of hydrogen gas which glow due to the strong radiation from hot, young stars embedded within them.

 

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The galaxy, called NGC 1097, is located 50 million ly away. The "eye" at the center of the galaxy is actually a monstrous (~ 100 million times the mass of our sun) black hole surrounded by a ring of young stars. The fuzzy blue dot to the left, which appears to fit snuggly between the arms, is a companion galaxy.

A reflection nebula called NGC 1333 is located 1000 ly from us in the constellation Perseus. The young stars in NGC 1333 do not form a single cluster, but are split between two sub-groups. One group is to the north near the nebula shown as red in the image. The other group is south, where the features shown in yellow and green.

The "Cat's Eye" planetary nebula (NGC 6543). Such objects are the glowing remnants of dust and gas expelled from moderate-sized stars during their last stages of life. Our own sun will generate such a nebula in ~ 5 billion years.

 

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IC 335 is 45 000 ly-long lenticular galaxy located in the Fornax Galaxy Cluster 60 million ly away.

NGC 6535 is an ancient one ly-long globular cluster 22 000 ly away in the constellation of Serpens.

 

[Drone]

Massive Tuesday goodness!!!!



New view of the Pillars of Creation

Soap Bubble Nebula (PN G75.5+1.7) is located in the constellation of Cygnus, not far from the Crescent Nebula (NGC 6888).

And finally, Hubble's sharpest and biggest image ever taken of Andromeda (M31). It shows >100 million stars and thousands of star clusters embedded in a section of the galaxy's pancake-shaped disc stretching across > 40000 ly.

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Beautiful pics.

Are there any high res pictures of Comet Lovejoy out there ?

For those that dont know Lovejoy is a comet that is visible with the naked eye.

If you look towards Orion,s Belt ( the 3 stars in a line) there is a biggish star just below, the comet will follow an arc from left to right and is a green looking smudge.


Not sure if it is visible globally but if you are in the Uk it is defo visible.

If the sky is clear take a look. It wont take long to find it.


1. Look eastish
2. Find Orions belt.
3 See Comet

BINGO

 

[revin]

Thank you @Drone You really Got some orcosmic Tuesday out of this world Awesomeness !!!
Just so awesome, new Hubble shots are mind blowing.
We worked on a few parts for the Hubble, glad to see it's working so great !

 

[Drone]

Thank you @Drone You really Got some orcosmic Tuesday out of this world Awesomeness !!!
Just so awesome, new Hubble shots are mind blowing.
We worked on a few parts for the Hubble, glad to see it's working so great !

You're welcome, friend XD You can download that new gigantic Hubble image of Andromeda here (WARNING: it's a 4.3 GB psb file) and here's a magnet link if you want to download it with torrent client

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:5BE3C93B5C5D9150AB819B14B90360182BD3E26C&tr=udp://tracker.publicbt.com:80&tr=udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80&tr=udp://tracker.istole.it:80&tr=http://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce&tr=udp://tracker.ccc.de:80


Zoomable version


New Chandra image of Sagittarius A*

More info and download largest version here


Gemini Legacy image of the galaxy group VV 166

More info and bigger version here

Beautiful pics.Are there any high res pictures of Comet Lovejoy out there ?

See this gallery

 

[Ahhzz]

Spoiler

You're welcome, friend XD You can download that new gigantic Hubble image of Andromeda here (WARNING: it's a 4.3 GB psb file) and here's a magnet link if you want to download it with torrent client

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:5BE3C93B5C5D9150AB819B14B90360182BD3E26C&tr=udp://tracker.publicbt.com:80&tr=udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com:80&tr=udp://tracker.istole.it:80&tr=http://denis.stalker.h3q.com:6969/announce&tr=udp://tracker.ccc.de:80


Zoomable version


New Chandra image of Sagittarius A*

More info and download largest version here


Gemini Legacy image of the galaxy group VV 166

More info and bigger version here






See this gallery[\spoiler]

Man that Andromeda would make a killer background, but you'd never be able to find a damn thing on your desktop

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

Hubble Chandra and Spitzer are 3 of my favourite words.

The new Hubble Pillars of Creation pictures are amazing, the originals were good but........... WOW

 

[Drone]

So many astronomical news for today but I can't resist so I'm posting more news just before I go to sleep lol

National Optical Astronomy Observatory released amazing pic of M33 spiral galaxy

If you want to download bigger version here it is -> click (155 MB jpg)

And exciting discovery:

The Magellanic Clouds are the two brightest nearby satellite galaxies to our own Milky Way galaxy. From a new study it appears that not only are they much bigger than astronomers calculated, but also have non-uniform structure at their outer edge, hinting at a rich and complex field of debris left over from their formation and interaction.

Who would have thought it?

And another one: Milky Way core drives wind at 2 million mph

At a time when our earliest human ancestors had recently mastered walking upright, the heart of our Milky Way galaxy underwent a titanic eruption, driving gases and other material outward at 2 million miles per hour. Now, at least 2 million years later, astronomers are witnessing the aftermath of the explosion: billowing clouds of gas towering about 30000 ly above and below the plane of our galaxy.

 

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New image of comet Lovejoy

New image of NGC 6819

Stellar nursery RY Tau. The wispy remains of the gas cloud formed the bright variable star at bottom/center. This system is approximately 450 ly away, and spans about 2/3 of a light year.

Dark nebula LDN 483 is located ~ 700 ly away in the constellation of Serpens. The cloud contains enough dusty material to completely block the visible light from background stars. The starless nature of LDN 483 and its ilk would suggest that they are sites where stars cannot take root and grow. But in fact the opposite is true: dark nebulae offer the most fertile environments for eventual star formation. Stars will emerge from the inky depths of LDN 483, the dark nebula will disperse and lose its opacity. The missing background stars that are currently hidden will then come into view - but only after the passage of millions of years, and they will be outshone by the bright young-born stars in the cloud.

 

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Nebula near the star cluster NGC 2074 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The region is a firestorm of raw stellar creation, perhaps triggered by a nearby supernova explosion. It lies ~ 170000 ly away near the Tarantula nebula, one of the most active star-forming regions in our Local Group of galaxies. In this approximately 100-ly-wide fantasy-like landscape, dark towers of dust rise above a glowing wall of gases on the surface of the molecular cloud. The seahorse-shaped pillar is approximately 20 ly long.

Emission nebula NGC 2359 (Thor's Helmet) lies ~ 15000 ly away in the constellation of Canis Major. It stretches ~ 30 ly across. Its center contains a bright and massive Wolf-Rayet star that blows a giant bubble through the surrounding molecular cloud, producing the interestingly shaped nebula.

 

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Is the NGC 2359 image above a Hubble image?

 

[Drone]

Is the NGC 2359 image above a Hubble image?

Nope, here's the source

http://skycenter.arizona.edu/

http://skycenter.arizona.edu/gallery/Nebulae/NGC2359

 

[Drone]

Comet Lovejoy & Orion Nebula (image by astrophotographer Chris Bakley)

Lenticular galaxy NGC 6861 in the constellation of Telescopium

A billowing tower of cold gas and dust rising from the Eagle Nebula. The soaring tower is 9.5 ly (90 trillion km) high.

 

[Drone]

Radio galaxy NGC 3116

 

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Comet Lovejoy w and w/o the Pleiades

Spiral galaxy NGC 891 is located approximately 30 million ly away from us in the constellation of Andromeda. The galaxy, spanning some 100 000 ly reveals filaments of dust and gas escaping the plane of the galaxy into the halo over hundreds of light-years.

 

[Nullifier]

This thread is awesome!

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

If you havent heard of Thierry Legault you have been missing out.

Check out his amazing photographs

i especially like this one of the Space Shuttle catching up with ISS.... incredible stuff.


http://legault.perso.sfr.fr/iss_atlantis_2010_crop.jpg

search his name for more pics and be aware his work is subject to copyright

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

I honestly thought they wouldnt release this footage but its brilliant that they have.


Spacex Not landing.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/dramatic-video-spacex-falcon-rocket-crash-landing/story?id=28276723

Nobody dies, theres nobody in it they are trying to reuse as much of the craft as possible rather than ditching it in the ocean

 

[Arjai]

Not sure where else to post this. I figured the people reading this post would enjoy it the most.

So, enjoy!

 

[CAPSLOCKSTUCK]

nice one/ I have been holding off from watching this......

i know we are all different with different interests but it will never cease to amaze me how ignorant
some people are. Then again they could probably teach me a thing or 2 about selling shit

i know this probably belongs on some IM site but if you have never watched Brickleberry PLEASE try this.

Its on TV in the States but unknown here in the UK

It belongs on this forum because it is out of this world. Better than Family Guy and all the others
There are 3 series of this and every episode is fucking brilliant.

ENJOY then tell your friends. Click on thanks if you liked it,

If you didnt like it then i think youve got some growing up to do

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=brickleberry

 

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Check out the Planetary Society

http://planetary.org/



Look up OSIRIS -REX Send your name on a round trip to the asteroid Bennu. WAHEY

Comet Lovejoy Timelapse

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...th-night-s-sky-captured-time-lapse-video.html

 

[Drone]

Owl Nebula is approximately 6000 year-old nebula and located ~ 2600 ly away [in the Ursa Major constellation], and has a diameter of ~ 3 ly across.

Dragonfish Nebula is home to some of the most luminous massive stars in our Milky Way galaxy. It is located ~ 30000 ly away in the Crux constellation.
The massive stars have blown a bubble in the gas and dust, carving out a shell of more than 100 ly across (seen in lower, central part of image). This shell forms the "toothy mouth" of the Dragonfish, and the two bright spots make it up its beady eyes. The bright spots along the shell, including the "eyes," are possible smaller regions of newly formed stars, triggered by the compression of the gas and dust by winds from the central, massive stars.

 

[Drone]

Spiral galaxy NGC 4217, 60 million ly away. Maybe it's just me but it reminds me of NGC 891 few posts above LMAO