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Earth, as seen from the Lunar surface, visualised
The Lonely Neutron Star In Supernova Remnant E0102-72.3 (the blue dot at bottom left) blue represents X-Ray light captured by NASA'S Chandra observatory, while the red & green represent optical light captured by ESO'S telescope in Chile and NASA'S Hubble in orbit. (Text adapted from apod.nasa.gov)
Credit : X-Ray — Chandra Observatory & Optical light — ESO / HUBBLE
Titan as seen through three different filters, captured on May 15th, 2013 via Imaging Science Subsystem (ISS) from 1.55 million miles (2.49 million kms) away.
Image Credit : NASA / JPL / SSI
IC 1805 – The Heart Nebula, taken on September the 11th, 2019
Image Credit & Copyright : Bray Falls
Mercury in color
Photo Credit : NASA
The Horsehead Nebula in Infrared from Hubble
Fittingly named the Horsehead Nebula, it is embedded in the vast and complex Orion Nebula (M42). A potentially rewarding but difficult object to view personally with a small telescope, the above gorgeously detailed image was taken in 2013 in infrared light by the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope in honor of the 23rd anniversary of Hubble's launch. The dark molecular cloud, roughly 1,500 light years distant, is cataloged as Barnard 33 and is seen above primarily because it is backlit by the nearby massive star Sigma Orionis . (Text adapted from APOD.NASA.GOV)
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Jupiter and Ganymede in near – UV and blue, jointly captured by Juno aircraft, remastered by Judy Schmidt
Image Credit : Judy Schmidt via Flickr
Our home galaxy – The Milky Way above Serengeti , photographed by Chris Tanner
Photo Credit & Copyright : Chris Tanner via Flickr
Annular or the Ring Of Fire solar eclipse is tomorrow
The time of maximum eclipse, when that "ring of fire" event happens, will be at 2:40 a.m. EDT (0640 GMT) Sunday, June 21, when the moon crosses into the center of the sphere of the sun, from Earth's perspective. The eclipse starts at 11:45 p.m. EDT Saturday, June 20 (0345 GMT Sunday) and ends at 5:34 a.m. EDT (1034 GMT) June 20, according to NASA.
Regions in the path of visibility include the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, South Sudan, Sudan, Ethiopia, the Red Sea, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Oman, the Gulf of Oman, Pakistan, India, China, Taiwan, the Philippine Sea (south of Guam), northern Australia and the north Pacific Ocean.
Picture description : An annular solar eclipse as seen by Japan's Hinode spacecraft on May, 20, 2012.
Hubble sees a more holistic view of the Butterfly Nebula or NGC 6302
Hubble was recently retrained on NGC 6302, known as the "Butterfly Nebula," to observe it across a more complete spectrum of light, from near-ultraviolet to near-infrared, helping researchers better understand the mechanics at work in its technicolor "wings" of gas. The "wings" of NGC 6302 are regions of gas heated to more than 36,000 degrees Fahrenheit that are tearing across space at more than 600,000 miles an hour. NGC 6302 lies between 2,500 and 3,800 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius.
Galaxy NGC 2768 as seen by Hubble on my birthday.
Check out what Hubble captured on your birthday here – https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/what-did-hubble-see-on-your-birthday
The Pelican Nebula (IC 5067/5070) an H II region associated with the North American Nebula in the Constellation Cygnus snapped by Don Bryden
Photo Credit : DonBryden/Flickr
M7 : Open star cluster in Scorpius
Image credit & Copyright : Lorand Fenyes
The Deep Lagoon also known as M8, captured at Mt. Lemmon Skycentre, Arizona, is located on the constellation of Sagittarius towards the centre of Milky Way.
Image Credit : Adam Block//Mt. Lemmon SkyCentre Arizona//Univ.Arizona
Boomerang Nebula – the coldest known place in Space, remastered.
Credit : geckzilla//Flickr
Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1300
Image Credit: Hubble Heritage Team,ESA, NASA
Simeis 147: Supernova Remnant
The supernova remnant has an estimated age of about 40,000 years, meaning light from the massive stellar explosion first reached Earth 40,000 years ago. But the expanding remnant is not the only aftermath. The cosmic catastrophe also left behind a spinning neutron star or pulsar, all that remains of the original star's core.
Image Credit & Copyright: David Lindemann
Galaxy M33//NGC 598 grabbed by Hubble
Credits: NASA/Hubble
The Ion Tail of New Comet SWAN
Image Credit & Copyright: Gerald Rhemann
Source : apod.nasa.gov
Galaxy Wars: M81 and M82
These two galaxies are far far away, 12 million light-years distant toward the northern constellation of the Great Bear. On the left, with grand spiral arms and bright yellow core is spiral galaxy M81, some 100,000 light-years across. On the right marked by red gas and dust clouds, is irregular galaxy M82. The pair have been locked in gravitational combat for a billion years. Their last go-round lasted about 100 million years and likely raised density waves rippling around M81, resulting in the richness of M81's spiral arms. M82 was left with violent star forming regions and colliding gas clouds so energetic the galaxy glows in X-rays. In the next few billion years, their continuing gravitational encounters will result in a merger, and a single galaxy will remain.
Image Credit & Copyright: Dietmar Hager, Torsten Grossmann
South Of Carina Nebula
With natal dust clouds in silhouette against glowing atomic gas, this colorful and chaotic vista lies within one of the largest star forming regions in the Milky Way galaxy, the Great Carina Nebula. The telescopic close-up frames a field of view about 80 light-years across, a little south and east of Eta Carinae, the nebula's most energetic and enigmatic star. Captured under suburban skies improved during national restrictions, a composite of narrowband image data was used to create the final image. In it, characteristic emission from the nebula's ionized sulfur, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms is mapped to red, green and blue hues, a color palette also popular in Hubble Space Telescope. The celestial landscape of bright ridges of emission bordered by cool, obscuring dust lies about 7,500 light-years away toward the southern constellation Carina.
Image Credit & Copyright: Ignacio Diaz Bobillo
Source : Apod.nasa.gov
Also known as the Seven Sisters and M45, the Pleiades lies about 400 light years away toward the constellation of Taurus (Bull).
Picture Credit & Copyright: Stanislav Volskiy
Source: apod.nasa.gov
Majestic Godzilla galaxy or UGC 2885, 2.5 million times wider than our home galaxy Milky Way, with one trillion stars in its crib, captured by Hubble
Source : NASA&Hubble
The arrangement of the spiral arms in the galaxy Messier 63, seen here in an image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, recall the pattern at the center of a sunflower.
Credit: ESA/Hubble&NASA
The Triangulum galaxy / Messier 33 / NGC 598
Credit : Maxime Duprez — Twitter
WISE helps map the beautiful spiral arms of our galaxy Milky Way.
WISE mission – NASA
Credit : NASA/Twitter
A dazzling capture of vivid space-scape by Casey Good. It spans across nebula rich star fields along the plane of our Milky Way. To the north lies the royal northern constellation Cepheus. To the left of centre is (sh) 155 — the Cave Nebula. At VDB 155 at lower right are the Dusty blue reflection nebulae.
Source : NASA
Neptune snapped by Voyager 2, twenty five years ago
Source : NASA
Andromeda in all her show stopping glory, a stunning capture by Rogelio Bernal Andreo.