Published: January 27, 2015 at 05:19
1. The gravitational field of Abell 68 surrounding this large group galaxies, serves as a natural cosmic lens that makes light coming from very distant galaxies behind the field brighter and larger. Reminiscent of a “distorted mirror” effect, the lens creates a fantastic landscape of arcing patterns and mirror reflections of rear galaxies. The closest group of galaxies is two billion light years away, and the images reflected through the lens come from galaxies that are even further away. In this photo above left, the image of the spiral galaxy has been stretched and mirrored. A second, less distorted image of the same galaxy is to the left of a large, bright elliptical galaxy. In the upper right corner of the photo is another amazing detail that is not related to the effect of gravitational lenses. What appears to be crimson liquid dripping from the galaxy is, in fact, a phenomenon called "tidal stripping." When a galaxy passes through a field of dense intergalactic gas, the gas that accumulates inside the galaxy rises and heats up. (NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage/ESA-Hubble Collaboration)
2. A clump of interstellar gas and dust located at a distance of one light years, resembles a huge caterpillar. Towards the right edge of the photograph are obstacles - these are 65 of the brightest and hottest O-class stars known to us, located at a distance of fifteen light years from the clump. These stars, as well as 500 more less bright, but nevertheless bright stars class B, form the so-called “Association of class OB2 Cygnus stars”. The caterpillar-like clump, called IRAS 20324+4057, is a protostar at the very early stage development. It is still in the process of collecting material from the gas enveloping it. However, the radiation emanating from Cygnus OB2 destroys this shell. Protostars in this region will eventually become young stars with a final mass of about one to ten times more mass our Sun, but if destructive radiation from nearby bright stars destroys the gas shell before the protostars gain the required mass, then their final masses will be reduced. (NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team - STScI/AURA, and IPHAS)
3. This pair of interacting galaxies is collectively called Arp 142. These include the star-forming spiral galaxy NGC 2936 and the elliptical galaxy NGC 2937. The orbits of the stars in NGC 2936 were once part of a flat spiral disk, but due to gravitational connections with another galaxy has fallen into disarray. This disorder distorts the orderly spiral of the galaxy; interstellar gas swells into giant tails. Gas and dust from the interior of the galaxy NGC 2936 are compressed when colliding with another galaxy, which triggers the process of star formation. Elliptical galaxy NGC 2937 resembles a dandelion of stars with some gas and dust remaining. The stars inside the galaxy are mostly old, as evidenced by their reddish color. There are no blue stars there, which would prove the process of their recent formation. Arp 142 is located 326 million light years away in the southern hemisphere constellation Hydra. (NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team - STScI/AURA)
4. Star forming region Carina Nebula. What it seems mountain peak, shrouded in clouds, is actually a column of gas and dust three light years high, gradually being eaten away by light from nearby bright stars. The pillar, located about 7,500 light years away, is also collapsing from the inside as young stars growing inside it release gas vapors. (NASA, ESA, and M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team, STScI)
5. The beautiful petal-shaped steps of the galaxy PGC 6240 are captured in photographs taken by the Hubble Telescope. They are set against a sky full of distant galaxies. PGC 6240 is an elliptical galaxy located 350 million years away in the southern hemisphere constellation Hydra. Spinning in her orbit a large number of globular star clusters, consisting of both young and old stars. Scientists believe this is the result of a recent galactic merger. (ESA/Hubble and NASA)
6. Photo illustration of the brilliant spiral galaxy M106. This image M106 contains only the internal structure around the ring and core. (NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team - STScI/AURA, and R. Gendler for the Hubble Heritage Team)
7. The globular star cluster Messier 15 is located about 35,000 light years away in the constellation Pegasus. It is one of the oldest clusters, about 12 billion years old. In the photo you can see how very hot blue stars, and colder yellow stars, which swirl together, gather most tightly around the bright center of the cluster. Messier 15 is one of the densest globular star clusters. It was the first known cluster to reveal a planetary nebula with a rare type of black hole at its center. This photograph is compiled from Hubble telescope images in the ultraviolet, infrared and optical parts of the spectrum. (NASA, ESA)
8. The legendary Horsehead Nebula has been mentioned in astronomy books for over a century. In this panorama the nebula appears in a new light, in infrared range. The nebula, unclear in optical light, now appears transparent and ethereal, but with a clear shadow. The illuminated rays around the upper dome are illuminated by the constellation Orion, a young five-star system visible near the edge of the photo. Powerful ultraviolet light from one of these bright stars is slowly dissipating the Nebula. Two forming stars emerge from their birthplace near the upper ridge of the Nebula. (NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team - STScI/AURA)
9. A snapshot of the young planetary nebula MyCn18 shows that the object has an hourglass shape with a pattern on the walls. Planetary nebula is the luminous remnant of a dying star like the Sun. These photos are very interesting because... they still help to understand unknown details ejection of stellar matter accompanying the slow destruction of stars. (Raghvendra Sahai and John Trauger, JPL, the WFPC2 science team, and NASA)
10. The Stephen's Quintet galaxy group is located in the constellation Pegasus at a distance of 290 million light years. Four of the five galaxies are very close to each other. It seems that the most bright galaxy NGC 7320, lower left, is also part of the group, but is actually 250 million light-years closer than the others. (NASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team)
11. The Hubble telescope captured Ganymede, a satellite of Jupiter, before it disappeared behind huge planet. Ganymede orbits Jupiter in seven days. Ganymede, made of rock and ice, is the largest moon in our solar system; even more than the planet Mercury. But compared to Jupiter itself big planet, Ganymede looks like a dirty snowball. Jupiter is so large that only part of its southern hemisphere fits in this photo. The Hubble image is so clear that astronomers can see features on Ganymede's surface, most notably the white impact crater A cable, and a system of rays, bright streams of matter escaping from the crater. (NASA, ESA, and E. Karkoschka, University of Arizona)
12. Comet ISON circling the Sun before its destruction. In this photo, ISON appears to be flying around a huge number of galaxies behind and a small number of stars ahead. Discovered in 2013, the small lump of ice and rock (2 km in diameter) was hurtling toward the Sun to pass at a distance of about 1 million kilometers from the Sun. The gravitational forces were too strong for the comet, and it disintegrated. (NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team, STScI/AURA)
13. Light echo of the star V838 Monoceros. Shown here is a spectacular illumination of the surrounding dust cloud, called a light echo, that brightened for several years after the star suddenly shone for a few weeks in 2002. Illumination of the interstellar dust comes from the red supergiant star in the middle of the image, which suddenly erupted in light three years ago, like a light bulb turning on in a dark room. The dust surrounding V838 Monoceros may have been ejected from the star during a similar previous outburst in 2002. (NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team, STScI/AURA)
14. Abell 2261. The giant elliptical galaxy at the center is the brightest and most massive part of the galaxy cluster Abell 2261. Located at a distance of just over one million light years, the diameter of the galaxy is about 10 times the diameter of the Milky Way galaxy. The bloated galaxy is representative unusual looking galaxies with a diffuse core filled thick fog starlight. Typically, astronomers assume that light is concentrated around a black hole at the center. Hubble observations show that the galaxy's swollen core, estimated at about 10,000 light-years across, is the largest ever seen. The gravitational influence on the light coming from galaxies located behind can make the image of photographs stretched or blurred, creating the so-called “gravitational lensing effect.” (NASA, ESA, M. Postman, STScI, T. Lauer, NOAO, and the CLASH team)
15. Antenna galaxies. Known as NGC 4038 and NGC 4039, these two galaxies are locked in a tight embrace. Once ordinary, quiet spiral galaxies like the Milky Way, the pair have spent the last few million years in such a violent collision that the stars torn out in the process have formed an arc between them. Bright pink and red clouds of gas surround bright flares from blue star-forming regions, some of which are partially obscured by dark streaks of dust. The frequency of star formation is so high that Antennae Galaxies are called places of constant star formation - in which all the gas inside the galaxies goes to create stars. (ESA/Hubble, NASA)
16. IRAS 23166+1655 is an unusual pre-planetary nebula, a celestial spiral around the star LL Pegasus. Spiral shape means that the nebula is formed in the usual way. The substance forming the spiral moves outward at a speed of 50,000 kilometers per hour; According to astronomers, its stages will separate from each other in 800 years. There is a hypothesis that the spiral will be reborn, because LL Pegasus is dual system, in which the star losing matter and a neighboring star begin to orbit each other. (ESA/NASA, R. Sahai)
17. Spiral galaxy NGC 634 was discovered in the 19th century French astronomer Edouard Jean-Marie Stéphane. It is approximately 120,000 light years in size and lies in the constellation Triangulum at a distance of 250 million light years. Other, more distant galaxies can be seen in the background. (ESA/Hubble, NASA)
18. A small part of the Carina Nebula, a star-forming region located in the southern hemisphere constellation Carina at a distance of 7,500 light years from Earth. Young stars glow so brightly that the emitted radiation disrupts the surrounding gas, creating bizarre shapes. Dust clusters towards the right top corner photographs, reminiscent of a drop of ink in milk. It has been suggested that the forms of this dust are nothing more than cocoons for the formation of new stars. The brightest stars in the photo, those closest to us, are not parts of the Carina Nebula. (ESA/Hubble, NASA)
19. The bright Red Galaxy at the center has an unusually large mass, 10 times the mass of the Milky Way. The blue horseshoe shape is a distant galaxy that has been enlarged and distorted into an almost closed ring by the strong gravitational pull of the larger galaxy. This "Cosmic Horseshoe" is one of the best examples of an Einstein ring, a "gravitational lens" effect with an ideal placement to bend light from distant galaxies into a ring shape around large nearby galaxies. The distant blue galaxy is approximately 10 billion light years away. (ESA/Hubble, NASA)
20. Planetary nebula NGC 6302, also known as the Butterfly Nebula, consists of seething pockets of gas heated to temperatures of 20,000 degrees Celsius. At the center is a dying star that was five times the mass of the Sun. She ejected her cloud of gases, and now emits ultraviolet radiation, from which the ejected substance glows. Located 3,800 light-years away, the central star is hidden under a ring of dust. (NASA, ESA and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team)
21. Disk galaxy NGC 5866 is located at a distance of about 50 million light years from Earth. The dust disk runs along the edge of the galaxy, revealing its structure behind it: a faint reddish bulge surrounding a bright core; blue star disk and transparent outer ring. Galaxies that are even millions of light years away are also visible through the ring. (NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team)
22. In February 1997, Hubble separated from the Discovery shuttle, completing its work in orbit. This telescope, measuring 13.2 m and weighing 11 tons, had by that time spent about 24 years in low-Earth orbit, taking thousands of priceless photographs. (NASA)
23. The Hubble Ultra Deep Field. Almost none of the objects in this photo are within our Milky Way galaxy. Almost every stroke, dot or spiral is an entire galaxy consisting of billions of stars. In late 2003, scientists pointed the Hubble telescope at a relatively dim patch of sky and simply opened the shutter for about one million seconds (about 11 days). The result is called the Ultra Deep Field - a snapshot of more than 10,000 previously unknown galaxies visible in our small sky. No other photograph before has demonstrated the unimaginable vastness of our universe. (NASA, ESA, S. Beckwith, STScI and the HUDF Team)
On December 26, 1994, NASA's largest space telescope, Hubble, spotted a huge white city floating in space. The photographs, located on the telescope's web server, became available to Internet users for a short time, but were then strictly classified.
After deciphering a series of images transmitted from the Hubble telescope, the films clearly showed a large white city floating in space.
NASA representatives did not have time to turn off free access to the telescope’s web server, where all the images received from Hubble go for study in various astronomical laboratories.
At first it was just a small foggy speck in one of the frames. But when University of Florida professor Ken Wilson decided to take a closer look at the photograph and, in addition to Hubble optics, armed himself with a hand-held magnifying glass, he discovered that the speck had a strange structure that could not be explained either by diffraction in the lens set of the telescope itself, or by interference in communication channel when transmitting the image to Earth.
After a short operational meeting It was decided to re-shoot the area of the starry sky indicated by Professor Wilson with the maximum resolution for Hubble. Huge multi-meter lenses space telescope focused on the farthest corner of the Universe accessible to the telescope. There were several characteristic clicks of the camera shutter, which were voiced by the prankster operator who voiced the computer command to capture the image on the telescope. And the “spot” appeared before the amazed scientists on the multi-meter screen of the projection installation of the Hubble control laboratory as a shining structure, similar to a fantastic city, a kind of hybrid of Swift’s “flying island” of Laputa and science-fiction projects of cities of the future.
A huge structure, stretching across many billions of kilometers in the vastness of Space, shone with an unearthly light. The Floating City was unanimously recognized as the Abode of the Creator, the place where only the throne of the Lord God could be located. A NASA representative said that the City cannot be inhabited in the usual sense of the word; most likely, the souls of dead people live in it.
However, another, no less fantastic version of the origin of the cosmic City has a right to exist. The fact is that in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, the very existence of which has not even been questioned for several decades, scientists are faced with a paradox. If we assume that the Universe is massively populated by many civilizations standing at the most different levels development, then among them there must inevitably be some supercivilizations that not only went into space, but actively populated vast spaces of the Universe. And the activities of these supercivilizations, including engineering, to change natural environment habitat (in in this case outer space and objects in the zone of influence) - should be noticeable at a distance of many millions of light years.
However, until recently, astronomers had not noticed anything like this. And now - an obvious man-made object of galactic proportions. It is possible that the City discovered by Hubble on Catholic Christmas at the end of the 20th century turned out to be exactly what we were looking for engineering structure unknown and very powerful extraterrestrial civilization.
The size of the City is amazing. Not a single celestial object known to us is able to compete with this giant. Our Earth in this City would be just a grain of sand on the dusty side of the cosmic avenue.
Where is this giant moving - and is it moving at all? Computer analysis of a series of photographs obtained from Hubble showed that the movement of the City generally coincides with the movement of the surrounding galaxies. That is, regarding the Earth, everything happens within the framework of the theory Big Bang. Galaxies “scatter”, the redshift increases with increasing distance, no deviations from common law not visible.
However, during three-dimensional modeling of the distant part of the Universe, a shocking fact emerged: it is not part of the Universe that is moving away from us, but we are moving away from it. Why was the starting point moved to the City? Because it was precisely this foggy spot in the photographs that turned out to be the “center of the Universe” in the computer model. The volumetric moving image clearly demonstrated that the galaxies are scattering, but precisely from the point of the Universe in which the City is located. In other words, all galaxies, including ours, once emerged from precisely this point in space, and it is around the City that the Universe rotates. Therefore, the first idea of the City as the Abode of God turned out to be extremely successful and close to the truth.
We present to you a selection of photographs taken using orbital telescope Hubble. It has been in orbit of our planet for more than twenty years and continues to reveal to us the secrets of space to this day.
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Known as NGC 5194, this large galaxy with a well-developed spiral structure may have been the first spiral nebula discovered. It is clearly visible that its spiral arms and dust lanes pass in front of its satellite galaxy, NGC 5195 (left). This pair is located about 31 million light years away and officially belongs to small constellation Hound Dogs.
2. Spiral Galaxy M33
Spiral galaxy M33 is a medium-sized galaxy from the Local Group. M33 is also called the Triangulum galaxy after the constellation in which it is located. About 4 times smaller (in radius) than our Milky Way Galaxy and the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), M33 is much larger than many dwarf galaxies. Because M33 is close to M31, some think it is a satellite of this more massive galaxy. M33 near the Milky Way, its angular dimensions more than twice the size of the full Moon, i.e. it is perfectly visible with good binoculars.
3. Stefan Quintet
The group of galaxies is Stefan's Quintet. However, only four galaxies in the group, located three hundred million light years away, participate in the cosmic dance, moving closer and further away from each other. It's quite easy to find extra ones. The four interacting galaxies - NGC 7319, NGC 7318A, NGC 7318B and NGC 7317 - have yellowish colors and curved loops and tails, the shape of which is caused by the influence of destructive tidal gravitational forces. The bluish galaxy NGC 7320, pictured above left, is much closer than the others, just 40 million light-years away.
4. Andromeda Galaxy
The Andromeda Galaxy is the closest giant galaxy to our Milky Way. Most likely, our Galaxy looks about the same as the Andromeda Galaxy. These two galaxies dominate the Local Group of galaxies. The hundreds of billions of stars that make up the Andromeda Galaxy together produce a visible, diffuse glow. The individual stars in the image are actually stars in our Galaxy, located much closer to the distant object. The Andromeda Galaxy is often called M31 because it is the 31st object in Charles Messier's catalog of diffuse celestial objects.
5. Lagoon Nebula
The bright Lagoon Nebula contains many different astronomical objects. To especially interesting objects include a bright open star cluster and several active star-forming regions. When viewed visually, the light from the cluster is lost against the background of the overall red glow caused by hydrogen emission, while the dark filaments arise from the absorption of light by dense layers of dust.
6. Cat's Eye Nebula (NGC 6543)
The Cat's Eye Nebula (NGC 6543) is one of the most famous planetary nebulae in the sky. Her memorable symmetrical shapes are visible in the central part of this dramatic false-color image, specially processed to show a huge but very faint halo of gaseous substance, about three light years in diameter, which surrounds a bright, familiar planetary nebula.
7. Small constellation Chameleon
The small constellation Chameleon is located near the south pole of the World. The picture reveals the amazing features of the modest constellation, which reveals many dusty nebulae and colorful stars. Blue reflection nebulae are scattered across the field.
8. Nebula Sh2-136
Cosmic dust clouds, faintly glowing by reflection starlight. Far from familiar places on planet Earth, they lurk on the edge of the Cephei Halo molecular cloud complex, 1,200 light-years away. Nebula Sh2-136, located near the center of the field, is brighter than other ghostly apparitions. Its size is more than two light years, and it is visible even in infrared light.
9. Horsehead Nebula
The dark, dusty Horsehead Nebula and the glowing Orion Nebula contrast in the sky. They are located 1,500 light years away in the direction of the most recognizable celestial constellation. And in today's wonderful composite photograph, the nebulae occupy opposite angles. The familiar Horsehead Nebula is a small dark cloud in the shape of a horse's head, silhouetted against a background of red glowing gas in the lower left corner of the picture.
10. Crab Nebula
This confusion remained after the star exploded. The Crab Nebula is the result of a supernova explosion observed in 1054 AD. The supernova remnant is filled with mysterious filaments. The filaments are not just complex to look at. The extent of the Crab Nebula is ten light years. At the very center of the nebula is a pulsar - neutron star with a mass equal to the mass of the Sun, which fits into an area the size of a small town.
11. Mirage from a gravitational lens
This is a mirage from a gravitational lens. The bright red galaxy (LRG) shown in this photograph has been distorted by its gravity to the light from a more distant blue galaxy. Most often, such distortion of light leads to the appearance of two images distant galaxy, however, in the case of a very precise superposition of the galaxy and the gravitational lens, the images merge into a horseshoe - an almost closed ring. This effect was predicted by Albert Einstein 70 years ago.
12. Star V838 Mon
For unknown reasons, in January 2002, the outer shell of the star V838 Mon suddenly expanded, making it the brightest star in the entire Milky Way. Then she became weak again, also suddenly. Astronomers have never seen a stellar flare like this before.
13. Birth of planets
How are planets formed? To try to find out, the Hubble Space Telescope was tasked with taking a closer look at one of the most interesting of all nebulae in the sky: the Great Orion Nebula. The Orion Nebula can be seen with the naked eye near the belt of the constellation Orion. The insets in this photo show numerous proplyds, many of them stellar nurseries that likely house forming planetary systems.
14. star cluster R136
At the center of the star-forming region 30 Doradus lies a gigantic cluster of the largest, hottest, and most massive stars known to us. These stars form the cluster R136, captured in this image taken in visible light already on the upgraded Hubble Space Telescope.
Brilliant NGC 253 is one of the brightest spiral galaxies we see, yet one of the dustiest. Some call it the "Silver Dollar Galaxy" because it is shaped like that in a small telescope. Others simply call it "the galaxy in the Sculptor" because it lies within southern constellation Sculptor. This dusty galaxy is located 10 million light years away.
16. Galaxy M83
Galaxy M83 is one of the closest spiral galaxies to us. From the distance that separates us from her, equal to 15 million light years, she looks completely ordinary. However, if we take a closer look at the center of M83 using the largest telescopes, the region appears to be a turbulent and noisy place.
17. Ring Nebula
She really looks like a ring in the sky. Therefore, hundreds of years ago, astronomers named this nebula according to its unusual shape. The Ring Nebula is also designated M57 and NGC 6720. The Ring Nebula belongs to the class of planetary nebulae; these are gas clouds that emit stars similar to the Sun at the end of their lives. Its size exceeds the diameter. This is one of Hubble's early images.
18. Column and jets in the Carina Nebula
This cosmic column of gas and dust is two light years wide. The structure is located in one of the largest star-forming regions of our Galaxy, the Carina Nebula, which is visible in the southern sky and is 7,500 light-years away.
19. Center globular cluster Omega Centauri
At the center of the globular cluster Omega Centauri, the stars are packed ten thousand times more densely than the stars in the vicinity of the Sun. The image shows many faint yellow-white stars smaller than our Sun, several orange red giants, and the occasional blue star. If two stars suddenly collide, one more massive star, or they form a new binary system.
20. A giant cluster distorts and splits the image of the galaxy
Many of them are images of a single unusual, beady, blue ring-shaped galaxy that just happened to be located behind giant cluster galaxies. According to recent research, in total, at least 330 images of individual distant galaxies can be found in the picture. This stunning photograph of the galaxy cluster CL0024+1654 was taken by the NASA Space Telescope. Hubble in November 2004.
21. Trifid Nebula
The beautiful, multi-colored Trifid Nebula allows you to explore cosmic contrasts. Also known as M20, it lies about 5,000 light-years away in the nebula-rich constellation Sagittarius. The size of the nebula is about 40 light years.
22. Centaurus A
A fantastic pile of young blue star clusters, giant glowing gas clouds and dark dust lanes surround the central region active galaxy Centaurus A. Centaurus A is close to Earth, at a distance of 10 million light years
23. Butterfly Nebula
Bright clusters and nebulae in Earth's night sky are often named after flowers or insects, and NGC 6302 is no exception. The central star of this planetary nebula is exceptionally hot: its surface temperature is about 250 thousand degrees Celsius.
24. Supernova
Image supernova, which erupted in 1994 on the outskirts of a spiral galaxy.
25. Two colliding galaxies with merging spiral arms
This remarkable cosmic portrait shows two colliding galaxies with merging spiral arms. Above and to the left of the large spiral galaxy pair NGC 6050 can be seen a third galaxy that is also likely involved in the interaction. All of these galaxies are located about 450 million light-years away in the Hercules cluster of galaxies. At this distance, the image covers an area of more than 150 thousand light years. And although this appearance seems quite unusual, scientists now know that collisions and subsequent mergers of galaxies are not uncommon.
26. Spiral Galaxy NGC 3521
Spiral galaxy NGC 3521 lies just 35 million light-years away in the direction of the constellation Leo. The galaxy, which extends over 50,000 light years, has features such as ragged spiral arms irregular shape, decorated with dust, pinkish star-forming regions and clusters of young bluish stars.
27. Jet structure details
Although this unusual emission was first noticed in the early twentieth century, its origin is still the subject of debate. The image shown above, taken in 1998 by the Hubble Space Telescope, clearly shows details of the jet's structure. The most popular hypothesis suggests that the source of the ejection was heated gas orbiting a massive black hole at the center of the galaxy.
28. Galaxy Sombrero
Galaxy M104's appearance resembles a hat, which is why it is called the Sombrero Galaxy. The image shows distinct dark lanes of dust and a bright halo of stars and globular clusters. The reasons why the Sombrero Galaxy looks like a hat are the unusually large central stellar bulge and the dense dark lanes of dust located in the galaxy's disk, which we see almost edge-on.
29. M17: close-up view
Formed by stellar winds and radiation, these fantastic wave-like formations are found in the M17 (Omega Nebula) nebula and are part of a star-forming region. The Omega Nebula is located in the nebula-rich constellation Sagittarius and is 5,500 light-years away. The patchy clumps of dense, cold gas and dust are illuminated by radiation from the stars in the image at top right and could become sites of star formation in the future.
30. Nebula IRAS 05437+2502
What does the IRAS 05437+2502 nebula illuminate? There is no exact answer yet. Particularly puzzling is the bright, inverted V-shaped arc that outlines the top edge of the mountain-like clouds of interstellar dust near the center of the image. Overall, this ghost-like nebula includes a small star-forming region filled with dark dust. It was first spotted in infrared images taken by the IRAS satellite in 1983. Shown here is a remarkable, recently released image from the Hubble Space Telescope. Although it shows many new details, the cause of the bright, clear arc could not be determined.
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The planet we live on is extraordinarily beautiful. But who among us has not wondered, looking into the starry sky: what life would be like in others? solar systems in our Milky Way galaxy or in others? So far, we don't even know if there is life there. But when you see this beauty, you want to think that it’s there for a reason, that everything makes sense, that if the stars light up, it means someone needs it. The Antennae Galaxy was formed as a result of the merger of two galaxies, which began several hundred million years ago. The antenna is located 45 million light years from our solar system. Two jets of energized gas flow are ejected from the poles of the young star.
You can indulge right after you look at these stunning photos cosmic phenomena in the Universe.1
Galaxy Antenna
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Young star
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Horsehead Nebula
The Horsehead Nebula, dark in optical light, appears transparent and ethereal in infrared, shown here, with visible tints.
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Bubble Nebula
The image was taken in February 2016 using the Hubble Space Telescope.The nebula is 7 light-years across—about 1.5 times the distance from our sun to its nearest stellar neighbor, Alpha Centauri—and lies 7,100 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cassiopeia.
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Helix Nebula
The Helix Nebula is a flaming envelope of gas formed by the death of a sun-like star. The helix consists of two gaseous disks almost perpendicular to each other, and is located 690 light years away, and is one of the closest planetary nebulae to Earth.
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Jupiter's moon Io
Io is the most close companion Jupiter.Io is about the size of our Moon and orbits Jupiterase1.8 days, while our Moon orbits the Earth every 28 days.A striking black spot on Jupiter is the shadow of Io, whichfloats across the face of Jupiter at a speed of 17 kilometers per second.
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NGC 1300
Blocked spiral galaxy NGC 1300 odiffers from normal spiral galaxies in that the arms of the galaxy do not grow all the way into the center, but are connected to the two ends of a straight bar of stars containing the core at its center.The core of the major spiral structure of the galaxy NGC 1300 shows its own unique grand spiral structure design, which is about 3,300 light years away.The galaxy is distant from usapproximately 69 million light years in the direction of the constellation Eridanus.
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Cat's Eye Nebula
Cat's Eye Nebula- one of the first planetary nebulae discovered, and one of the most complex, in observable space.A planetary nebula forms when sun-like stars carefully extract their outer gaseous layers, which form bright nebulae with amazing and complex structures..
The Cat's Eye Nebula is located 3,262 light-years from our solar system.
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Galaxy NGC 4696
NGC 4696 – largest galaxy in the Centaurus cluster.New images from Hubble show the dust filaments around the center of this huge galaxy in more detail than ever before.These filaments curl inward in an intriguing spiral shape around the supermassive black hole.
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Omega Centauri star cluster
The globular star cluster Omega Centauri contains 10 million stars and is the largest of the approximately 200 globular clusters orbiting our Milky Way Galaxy. Omega Centauri is located 17,000 light years from Earth.
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Galaxy Penguin
Galaxy Penguin.From our Hubble perspective, this pair of interacting galaxies resembles a penguin guarding its egg. NGC 2936, once a standard spiral galaxy, is deformed and borders NGC 2937, a smaller elliptical galaxy.The galaxies lie about 400 million light years away in the constellation Hydra.
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Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula
Pillars of Creation - remains of the central part gas-dust nebula The Eagle in the constellation Serpens, consists, like the entire nebula, mainly of cold molecular hydrogen and dust. The nebula is located 7,000 distant light years away.
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Abell Galaxy Cluster S1063
This Hubble image shows a very chaotic Universe filled with galaxies far and near.Some are distorted like a distorted mirror due to the curvature of space, a phenomenon first predicted by Einstein a century ago.At the center of the image is the enormous galaxy cluster Abell S1063, located 4 billion light-years away.
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Whirlpool Galaxy
The graceful, sinuous arms of the majestic spiral galaxy M51 appear like a great spiral staircase sweeping through space. They are actually long lanes of stars and gas, saturated with dust.
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Stellar nurseries in the Carina Nebula
Billowing clouds of cold interstellar gas and dust rise from the raging Stellar Nursery, located 7,500 light-years away in the Southern constellation Carina.This pillar of dust and gas serves as an incubator for new stars.Hot, young stars and eroding clouds create this fantastic landscape, sending out stellar winds and scorching ultraviolet light.
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Galaxy Sombrero
The distinctive feature of the Sombrero Galaxy is its brilliant white core, surrounded by a thick layer of dust, forming the spiral structure of the galaxy. Sombrero is on southern outskirts The Virgo Cluster is one of the most massive objects in this group, equivalent to 800 billion suns.The galaxy is 50,000 light years across and located 28 million light years from Earth.
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Butterfly Nebula
What resemble graceful butterfly wings are actually cauldrons of gas heated to more than 36,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The gas rushes through space at more than 600,000 miles per hour. A dying star that was once about five times the mass of the Sun is at the center of this fury. The Butterfly Nebula is located in our Milky Way galaxy, approximately 3,800 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius.
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Crab Nebula
Pulse at the core of the Crab Nebula. While many other images of the Crab Nebula have focused on filaments in the outer part of the nebula, this image shows the very heart of the nebula including the central neutron star - the rightmost of the two bright stars near the center of this image. A neutron star has the same mass as the sun, but is compressed into an incredibly dense sphere several kilometers in diameter. Rotating 30 times per second, the neutron star releases beams of energy that make it appear to pulsate. The Crab Nebula is located 6,500 light years away in the constellation Taurus.
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Preplanetary nebula IRA 23166+1655
One of the most beautiful geometric shapes created in space, this image shows the formation of an unusual preplanetary nebula known as IRA 23166+1655 around the star LL Pegasi in the constellation Pegasus.
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Retina Nebula
Dying star, IC 4406 shows high degree symmetry; the left and right halves of the Hubble image are almost mirror images of the other. If we could fly around IC 4406 in spaceship, we would see gas and dust forming a vast donut of substantial outflow directed outward from the dying star. From Earth, we view the donut from the side. This side view allows us to see tangled tendrils of dust that have been compared to the retina of the eye. The nebula is located about 2,000 light years away, near the southern constellation Lupus.
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Monkey Head Nebula
NGC 2174 is located 6,400 light years away in the constellation Orion. The colorful region is filled with young stars trapped in bright wisps of cosmic gas and dust. This part of the Monkey Head Nebula was captured in 2014 by Hubble Camera 3.
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Spiral Galaxy ESO 137-001
This galaxy looks strange. One side of it looks like a typical spiral galaxy, while the other side appears to be destroyed. The bluish stripes stretching down and to the sides from the galaxy are clusters of hot young stars trapped in jets of gas. These scraps of matter will never return to the bosom of the mother galaxy. Like a huge fish with its belly ripped open, the galaxy ESO 137-001 roams space, losing its insides.
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Giant tornadoes in the Lagoon Nebula
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows long interstellar 'tornadoes' - eerie tubes and twisted structures - at the heart of the Lagoon Nebula, which lies 5,000 light-years in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius.
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Gravity lenses in Abell 2218
This rich galaxy cluster consists of thousands of individual galaxies and is located about 2.1 billion light-years from Earth in the Northern constellation Draco. Astronomers use gravitational lenses to powerfully magnify distant galaxies. Strong gravitational forces not only enhance images of hidden galaxies, but also distort them into long, thin arcs.
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Hubble's farthest position
Each object in this image is an individual galaxy made up of billions of stars. This view of nearly 10,000 galaxies is the deepest image of the cosmos yet. Called Hubble's “Far Farthest Field” (or Hubble's Ultra-Deep Field), this image presents a “deep” core sample of the universe shrinking across billions of light years. The image includes galaxies different ages, sizes, shapes and colors. The smallest, reddest galaxies may be among the most distant, existing since the universe was just 800 million years old. The closest galaxies—larger, brighter, well-defined spirals and ellipticals—thrived about 1 billion years ago, when the cosmos was 13 billion years old. In stark contrast, along with the many classic spiral and elliptical galaxies, there is a zoo of oddball galaxies littering the area. Some look like toothpicks; others are like a link on a bracelet.
In ground-based photographs, the area of the sky in which galaxies live (simply one tenth of the diameter full moon) is mostly empty. The image required 800 exposures, taken over 400 Hubble orbits around the Earth. The total dwell time was 11.3 days spent between September 24, 2003 and January 16, 2004.
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1. Galaxy fireworks.
2. The center of the lenticular galaxy Centaurus A (NGC 5128). This bright galaxy is located, by cosmic standards, very close to us - “only” 12 million light years away.
3. Dwarf galaxy Large Magellanic Cloud. The diameter of this galaxy is almost 20 times smaller than the diameter of our own galaxy, the Milky Way.
4. Planetary nebula NGC 6302 in the constellation Scorpius. This planetary nebula has two other beautiful names: the Bug Nebula and the Butterfly Nebula. A planetary nebula forms when a star similar to our Sun sheds its outer layer of gas as it dies.
5. Reflection nebula NGC 1999 in the constellation Orion. This nebula is a giant cloud of dust and gas that reflects the light of stars.
6. Luminous Orion Nebula. You can find this nebula in the sky just below Orion's belt. It is so bright that it is clearly visible even to the naked eye.
7. The Crab Nebula in the constellation Taurus. This nebula was formed as a result of a supernova explosion.
8. Cone nebula NGC 2264 in the constellation Monoceros. This nebula is part of the system of nebulae surrounding a star cluster.
9. Planetary Cat's Eye Nebula in the constellation Draco. Complex structure This nebula has posed many mysteries for scientists.
10. Spiral galaxy NGC 4911 in the constellation Coma Berenices. This constellation is located large cluster galaxies called the Coma cluster. Most of the galaxies in this cluster are of the elliptical type.
11. Spiral galaxy NGC 3982 from the constellation Ursa Major. On April 13, 1998, a supernova exploded in this galaxy.
12. Spiral galaxy M74 from the constellation Pisces. It has been suggested that there is a black hole in this galaxy.
13. Eagle Nebula M16 in the constellation Serpens. This is a fragment of the famous photograph taken with the help of the Hubble orbital telescope, called “The Pillars of Creation”.
14. Fantastic images of deep space.
15. Dying star.
16. Red giant B838. In 4-5 billion years, our Sun will also become a red giant, and in about 7 billion years, its expanding outer layer will reach the Earth's orbit.
17. Galaxy M64 in the constellation Coma Berenices. This galaxy resulted from the merger of two galaxies that were rotating in different directions. That's why inner part galaxy M64 rotates in one direction, and its peripheral part- to another.
18. Mass birth of new stars.
19. Eagle Nebula M16. This column of dust and gas at the center of the nebula is called the "Fairy" region. The length of this pillar is approximately 9.5 light years.
20. Stars in the Universe.
21. Nebula NGC 2074 in the constellation Dorado.
22. Triplet of galaxies Arp 274. This system includes two spiral galaxies and one of irregular shape. The object is located in the constellation Virgo.
23. Sombrero Galaxy M104. In the 1990s, it was discovered that at the center of this galaxy there is a black hole of enormous mass.