ESO 593-8 is a stunning pair of interacting galaxies with a feather-shaped galaxy crossing the companion galaxy. This spectacular galactic dance was nicknamed by astronomers as The Bird, due to its shape in old images. It is likely that in the future the two components will merge to form a single galaxy. The couple is adorned with several star clusters of..... #astronomy#space#astrophysics#astrophotography
This turbulent and threatening structure is CG4, a cometary globule that seems to want to eat the galaxy ESO 257-19, but it is much further away. How these objects acquire their particular shape remains a topic of debate among astronomers. The characteristics that classify CG4 as a cometary globule are distinguished in this image captured by the..... #astronomy#space#astrophysics#astrophotography
Sh2-114, also cataloged as LBN 347, is a very faint emission nebula visible in the Cygnus constellation, embedded in a much larger structure cataloged as LBN 346. This bundle of filaments seen here in a detailed wide-field image, collaboration between astronomers Tom Masterson and Kim Quick, are known as the Flying Dragon Nebula. It is a cloud that has..... #astronomy#space#astrophysics#astrophotography
The image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope shows the spiral galaxy UGC 9684, which is located about 240 million light years from the Milky Way and is located in the direction of the Bootes Constellation. This galaxy is an example of classic galactic features, including a bar in the center of the galaxy and a halo surrounding its disk. The reason for..... #astronomy#space#astrophysics#astrophotography
You may have wondered if you had seen NGC 1535 before. This planetary nebula, nicknamed Cleopatra's Eye, bears a striking resemblance to another object of its class, NGC 2392, which is practically the same in both structure and color. NGC 1535 is a bubble of gas that was ejected by a dying star of similar mass to the Sun called HD 26847. Visually the...... #astronomy#space#astrophysics#astrophotography
Located in the southern constellation of Centaurus, the Gum 41 nebula occupies most of this image brought to us by the Very Large Telescope, located at the Paranal Observatory, in Chile. Let's take a closer look at this intricate structure. Set against a colorful backdrop of stars, Gum 41 is a pleasingly symmetrical example of a shell of hydrogen gas atoms glowing in..... #astronomy#space#astrophysics#astrophotography
This image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope shows the dwarf galaxy IC 776. This swirling collection of young and old stars is located towards the Virgo Constellation and within the Virgo Galaxy Cluster, at a distance of 100 million light years from the Milky Way. Although it is a dwarf galaxy, it has also been classified as SAB type or weakly..... #astronomy#space#astrophysics#astrophotography
Messier 63, seen here in an excellent image by astronomer Séb Gozé, is a foculating spiral glaxia, meaning it is a spiral with arms that divide into multiple branches, giving the impression of having many discontinuous arms. Known by the nickname Sunflower Galaxy, it is classified as a LINER-type galaxy, a galaxy with a nucleus defined by its..... #astronomy#space#astrophysics#astrophotography
This image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope shows the open star cluster NGC 2002. It is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite dwarf galaxy of the Milky Way that contains numerous star-forming regions and is prolific in star clusters, making it which makes it an ideal laboratory to study stellar formation and evolution. NGC 2002 is more..... #astronomy#space#astrophysics#astrophotography
The translucent bubble-shaped planetary nebula seen in the center of this image is PN G262.4-01.9. The visible material of a star that has left its red giant phase and has evolved toward its end. In this phase the star expels its outer layers into space, rocks, dust and gas expelled at high speed that produce a shock front when colliding with the less dense and..... #astronomy#space#astrophysics#astrophotography
The galaxies of this beautiful interacting couple bear some resemblance to hooks on two fishing rods. Long tidal tails emerge from both galaxies, leaving a trail composed of gas and stars that were torn from the outer regions of both galaxies. The presence of these tails is the unique signature of a close interaction that will end in a merger. ESO 69-6 and..... #astronomy#space#astrophysics#astrophotography
During its 60th orbit flyby of Jupiter, the Juno spacecraft passed close to the Galilean satellite Io, of which it took this extraordinary image on April 9, 2024. This is the first image of the satellite's south polar region. At the time this image was taken, Juno was at a distance of 16,500 kilometers from the surface of Io. Juno entered orbit around..... #astronomy#space#astrophysics#astrophotography
The collaboration image between astronomers Warren Keller and Mike Selby shows the galaxy NGC 578, a spiral with an active galactic nucleus that is located at a distance of about 70 million light years from the Milky Way and is located in the direction of the Constellation of Cetus. This galaxy looks majestic against a background of much more..... #astronomy#space#astrophysics#astrophotography
To celebrate the 34th anniversary of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope into space, astronomers have turned the optics of the orbiting observatory towards the Small Dumbbell Nebula, cataloged as Messier 76 or NGC 650. This nebula is located at a distance of about 3,400 light years from the Earth and is located in the direction of the..... #astronomy#space#astrophysics#astrophotography
The excellent image by astronomer Josep Drudis shows the emission nebula Sh2-170, which is located in the direction of the Cassiopeia Constellation, almost on the border with the Cepheus Constellation, located at a distance of about 7,500 light years from the System. Solar and its apparent size is comparable to two-thirds the diameter of the..... #astronomy#space#astrophysics#astrophotography
This image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope shows the barred spiral galaxy cataloged as ESO 422-41, which is located in the direction of the Columba Constellation and is located at a distance of about 34 million light years from the Milky Way. This galaxy has irregular spiral arms that have structures made up of stars and a..... #astronomy#space#astrophysics#astrophotography
The interacting galaxies that appear in this image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope are NGC 3690 East and NGC 3690 West or together Arp 299, two galaxies that passed very close about 70 million years ago. As a result of this interaction, the system experienced a fierce burst of star formation. However, up to fifteen supernovae have also been..... #astronomy#space#astrophysics#astrophotography
Arp 238 is a pair of spiral galaxies that interact dramatically. The interaction consists of Arp 238A at the bottom of the image, and Arp 238B at the top. The two galaxies are linked by a bridge of material extracted from the outer disks of the galaxies, producing two highly curved tidal tails composed of gas and stars. Both galaxies show dust lanes at..... #astronomy#space#astrophysics#astrophotography
This image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope shows NGC 3783, a bright barred spiral galaxy located in the direction of the Centaurus Constellation and located at a distance of about 130 million light years from the Milky Way, which also lends its name to the NGC 3783 Galaxy Group. Like galaxy clusters, galaxy groups are small, gravitationally bound..... #astronomy#space#astrophysics#astrophotography
This image by astronomer Rolf Wahl Olsen shows the prominent reflection nebula IC 4603, seen here in bright blue near the center of the frame. IC 4603 belongs to the Rho Ophiuchi star and nebula complex. The name of the complex is provided by one of the most significant stars in this star-forming region. IC 4603 is composed of a cloud of..... #astronomy#space#astrophysics#astrophotography
This bright gathering of stars is Pismis 26, a globular star cluster located at a distance of about 23,000 light years from Earth, which is located in the direction of the Scorpius constellation, near the galactic bulge. Thousands of stars shine brightly against the black background, with some brighter red and blue stars located on the outskirts of the..... #astronomy#space#astrophysics#astrophotography
VV 283 looks like a single peculiar galaxy, but it is actually two galaxies in the process of merging. A tidal tail emerges from a disordered central region and divides into two sections. The part that twists upward is illuminated by luminous knots of energetic blue stars. Like many of the merging systems observed by the Hubble Space Telescope, VV 283 is a..... #astronomy#space#astrophysics#astrophotography
The impressive mosaic produced by astronomer David Lindemann, shows a large region of the sky encompassing the Constellations Serpens and Sagittarius. A region dotted with emission nebulae, dark clouds, open star clusters and even a planetary nebula called PN G013.3+01.1, which at its discovery was considered an emission nebula, which is..... #astronomy#space#astrophysics#astrophotography
This image of the Orion Nebula Messier 42 produced from data from three telescopes shows two enormous bubbles carved by the radiation and winds of unseen giant stars that can release up to a million times more light than our Sun. All that radiation breaks up the dust grains, helping to create the chaotic dusty landscape. Much of the..... #astronomy#space#astrophysics#astrophotography
This image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope shows LEDA 90367, a spiral galaxy with a trailing arm. Plumes of gas, dust and stars have broken off from the galaxy's disk, exhibiting numerous blue stellar knots, due to the fact that in the last few million years it has undergone a merger event between two galaxies. Probably the nuclei of both galaxies..... #astronomy#space#astrophysics#astrophotography
