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Added on: 18th Dec 2016

 

THE SUNFLOWER GALAXY IS ONE OF THE MOST

BEAUTIFUL COSMIC STRUCTURES IN THE UNIVERSE.

ITS EXPANSIVE, WINDING ARMS ARE MADE UP OF

NEW BLUE-WHITE GIANT STARS

Messier 63

 

 

THOUGH YOU MIGHT NOT BELIEVE IT, THIS IMAGE

FROM WITHIN THE CARINA NEBULA IS AS REAL

AS CAN BE. THE MOUNTAIN OF GAS AND DUST

STREAMING THREE LIGHT-YEARS HIGH INTO

SPACE IS A HOTBED OF ACTIVITY, DWINDLING

AWAY AS STARS COALESCE WITHIN IT DUE TO

THE COMPRESSION OF NEARBY STARS

carina-nebula-mountain-of-gas-and-dust

 

 

ISN'T NEAR-INFRARED LIGHT AMAZING? THIS

NEAR-INFRARED IMAGE OF JUPITER SHOWS THE

DIFFERENT CLOUDS IN ITS ATMOSPHERE,

COLOURED DIFFERENTLY BASED ON THEIR

ALTITUDE. SINCE METHANE GAS LIMITS THE

PENETRATION OF SUNLIGHT, YELLOW AREAS ARE

HIGH CLOUDS; RED, MIDDLE-LEVEL CLOUDS AND

BLUE, LOW CLOUDS. WHAT IS REALLY AMAZING,

THOUGH, ARE JUPITER'S THREE LARGEST MOONS,

IO, GANYMEDE, AND CALLISTO, ALL ECLIPSING

THE PLANET AT THE SAME TIME, AN EVENT THAT

HAPPENS ONLY ABOUT ONCE A DECADE

jupiter in infrared

 

 

THE GALAXY I ZWICKY 18 LOOKS MORE A SCENE

FROM THE OPENING SEQUENCE OF DOCTOR WHO

THAN IT DOES A REAL COSMIC BEAUTY. THE

DWARF IRREGULAR GALAXY BAFFLES SCIENTISTS

BECAUSE SOME OF ITS STAR DEVELOPMENT IS

TYPICAL OF GALAXY FORMATION IN THE EARLIEST

DAYS OF THE UNIVERSE; THIS IS DESPITE THE

GALAXY BEING RELATIVELY YOUNG AT AROUND

A BILLION YEARS OLD

I-Zwicky_18a

 

 

THE DIMMEST PLANET WE CAN SEE FROM EARTH

WITH THE NAKED EYE, SATURN IS ROUTINELY

RANKED AS A 10-YEAR-OLD'S FAVOURITE PLANET.

ITS ICONIC RING STRUCTURE IS THE BEST KNOWN

IN OUR UNIVERSE, SHOWN HERE IN INFRARED

RADIATION TO BRING OUT THE DELICATE HUES OF

SATURN'S GASEOUS ATMOSPHERE

Hubble_infrared_of_Saturn

 

 

OVER 200 IMMENSELY HOT STARS MAKE UP

NEBULA NGC 604. THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE

CAPTURED THE BRILLIANT FLUORESCENCE OF

THE NEBULA, CAUSED BY IONIZED HYDROGEN GAS

NGC 604 in M 33 galaxy

 

 

ASSEMBLED FROM 24 SEPARATE IMAGES, THIS

PHOTO OF THE CRAB NEBULA SHOWS THE

SUPERNOVA REMNANT IN THE TAURUS CONSTELLATION

crab-nebula

 

 

THE RED ORB AT THE CENTRE OF THIS IMAGE,

THE STAR V838 MON, IS SURROUNDED BY A

HOST OF DUSTY CLOUDS. THIS INCREDIBLE

PHOTO WAS TAKEN AFTER THE BRIGHTENED

STAR CAUSED A LIGHT ECHO, PUSHING THE

DUST OUT INTO THE UNIVERSE LIKE A BIG SNEEZE

V838-Mon

 

 

ONE OF THE MOST BREATH-TAKING IMAGES OF

THE COSMOS IS FROM THE CARINA NEBULA.

AN INTERSTELLAR CLOUD FILLED WITH DUST

AND IONIZED GASES, THE CARINA NEBULA IS

ONE OF THE LARGEST NEBULA IN OUR SKY

AND ONE OF THE MOST FASCINATING, HOSTING

COUNTLESS STAR CLUSTERS AND EVEN THE

BRIGHTEST STAR IN THE MILKY WAY GALAXY

Carina_Nebula

 


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