Posted on 01/17/2024 7:16:12 PM PST by Red Badger
This Hubble Space Telescope image shows the unbarred spiral galaxy NGC 5033, located about 40 million light-years away in the constellation of Canes Venatici (the Hunting Dogs). The galaxy is similar in size to our own galaxy, the Milky Way, at just over 100,000 light-years across. (Image Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA; Acknowledgment: Judy Schmidt)
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At the center of this image is a monster young star 200,000 times brighter than our Sun that is blasting powerful ultraviolet radiation and hurricane-like stellar winds, carving out a fantasy landscape of ridges, cavities, and mountains of gas and dust. (NASA, ESA, and STScI)
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This glittering ball of stars is the globular cluster NGC 1898, which lies toward the center of the Large Magellanic Cloud — one of our closest cosmic neighbors. (ESA/Hubble & NASA)
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Resembling a wizard’s staff set aglow, NGC 1032 cleaves the quiet darkness of space in two in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. (ESA/Hubble & NASA)
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In the center of this image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is the galaxy cluster SDSS J1038+4849 — and it seems to be smiling. (NASA/ESA)
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Lying about 500 million light-years away in the constellation of Sculptor, the cartwheel shape of this galaxy is the result of a violent galactic collision. (ESA/Hubble & NASA)
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An image of NGC 6326, a planetary nebula with glowing wisps of outpouring gas that are lit up by a central star nearing the end of its life. (ESA/Hubble & NASA)
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Hubble Space Telescope's iconic view of the Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula. (Image: © J. Hester/P. Scowen/ASU/HST/NASA)
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In this classic Hubble image from 2000, the planetary nebula IC 418 glows like a multifaceted jewel with enigmatic patterns. IC 418 lies about 2,000 light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Lepus. (NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA); Acknowledgment: Dr. Raghvendra Sahai (JPL) and Dr. Arsen R. Hajian (USNO))
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This is a composite image of Uranus by Voyager 2 and two different observations made by Hubble — one for the ring and one for the auroras. (ESA/Hubble & NASA, L. Lamy / Observatoire de Paris)
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UGC 12591 sits somewhere between a lenticular and a spiral. It lies just under 400 million light-years away from us in the westernmost region of the Pisces–Perseus Supercluster, a long chain of galaxy clusters that stretches out for hundreds of millions of light-years — one of the largest known structures in the cosmos. (ESA/Hubble & NASA)
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Ultraviolet light from the dying star makes the material glow. The burned-out star, called a white dwarf, is the white dot in the center. Our sun will eventually burn out and shroud itself with stellar debris, but not for another 5 billion years. (NASA, ESA, and K. Noll (STScI), Acknowledgment: The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA))
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Human eyes can see only a small portion of the range of radiation given off by the objects around us. We call this wide array of radiation the electromagnetic spectrum, and the part we can see visible light. In this Hubble Space Telescope image, researchers revisited one of Hubble's most iconic and popular images: the Eagle Nebula’s Pillars of Creation. (NASA, ESA/Hubble and the Hubble Heritage Team)
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This remarkable spiral galaxy, known as NGC 4651, may look serene and peaceful as it swirls in the vast, silent emptiness of space, but don’t be fooled — it keeps a violent secret. It is believed that this galaxy consumed another smaller galaxy to become the large and beautiful spiral that we observe today. (ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Leonard)
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This swirling mass of celestial gas, dust and stars is a moderately luminous spiral galaxy named ESO 021-G004, located just under 130 million light-years away. ( ESA/Hubble & NASA, D. Rosario et al.)
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Within the tempestuous Carina Nebula lies “Mystic Mountain.” This three-light-year-tall cosmic pinnacle, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera 3 in 2010, is made up primarily of dust and gas, and exhibits signs of intense star-forming activity. The colors in this composite image correspond to the glow of oxygen (blue), hydrogen and nitrogen (green) and sulfur (red). NASA, ESA, M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team (STScI))
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This new Hubble Space Telescope view of Jupiter, taken on June 27, 2019, reveals the giant planet's trademark Great Red Spot, and a more intense color palette in the clouds swirling in Jupiter's turbulent atmosphere than seen in previous years. (NASA, ESA, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center) and M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley))
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The nebula, officially known as Hen 2-104, is located several thousand light-years from Earth in the southern hemisphere constellation of Centaurus. It appears to have two nested hourglass-shaped structures that were sculpted by a whirling pair of stars in a binary system. (NASA, ESA, and STScI)
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The bright southern hemisphere star RS Puppis, at the center of the image, is swaddled in a gossamer cocoon of reflective dust illuminated by the glittering star. The super star is ten times more massive than the Sun and 200 times larger. (NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) – Hubble/Europe Collaboration; Acknowledgement: H. Bond (STScI and Pennsylvania State University))
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When viewing this, all I can do is breathe a prayer of thanks that the One who made all this also redeemed me with the blood of His Son.
I can’t keep track of my car keys much less an entire universe.....................
Psalm 19 says it all
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.
2 Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge.
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Indeed…
That’s one of the reasons I got interested in astronomy in the first place.
Fabulous post, Mike, thoughtfully presented.
Before I retired, I had the Pillars of Creation on my office wall.................
The very best, incomparable.
God is an awesome artist.
Yes He is-The Greatest!
You must have had a really big office...................
I've often said the same:
I can’t keep my garage clean much less an entire universe.....................
I was the boss!
Astronomy has given me far more than I've given it (although at one time I did consider becoming an astronomer, I studied physics instead, became an engineer, and maintained astronomy as a hobby).
There is nothing that broadens one's outlook, and gives one an appreciation of God's Creation, so much as those Hubble photos. I thought I was pretty good at wrapping my mind around the immensity of space, until the first time I saw the Deep Field images. I frankly wept at the realization of just how much was out there; it was a life-altering epiphany.
I’ll take two framed copies of each...
Please ship by UPS...
There ain’t no money in it, you always work the graveyard shift and it’s perpetually cold...............
The heavens declare the glory of God , and the firmament shows His handiwork.
Bkmk
True dat.
I have to say, after that first stumbling block with Hubble where the optics were screwed up, the engineering that took place to fix that problem, and the implementation was completely impressive to me.
When that piece of equipment finally decides it’s going to die, I wouldn’t mind seeing SpaceX go up there and grab the Hubble, and bring it down so I could spend the rest of its days in a museum… :-)
I’ve seen most of these because I check APOD every day, but it is nice to have this review of selected pictures to admire.
Thank you for posting this thread and the pictures.
Thx...
Although I was being sarcastic, I will get one of those Crab Nebula canvases...
Living here on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay it seems appropriate...
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