9/11 The emerging planetary system resembles "a lightning bug glowing against the black void" in stunning images from the ESO telescope network.
Cosmic beauty captured at the moment of creation.
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Spiral Galaxy NGC 5330, with clear spiral arms. It seems to have a bright star near its center, but that star is actually in our own Milky Way, much closer to us. It's a chance alignment.
#Hubble telescope image: NGC3350, a spiral galaxy, 40 million lightyears away. The bright central star is actually in our own Milky Way, just 10,000 LY away. It's a chance superposition.
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Infrared image of a Herbig-Haro object -- the outflow from a young star just settling down from its formation process. At its tip in the upper left, resembling a crown, is a much more distant spiral galaxy, which we see face-on. There are also galaxies visible in other parts of this wonderful James Webb Space Telescope image.
Brand new #JamesWebbTelescope image of the outflow from a young star, with a #galaxy far, far away, at its upper left tip. In this infrared view, heated dust regions glow reddish.
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This color image shows the Horsehead Nebula, a pillar of dark dust that resembles a horse's head, in the context of the neighborhood it is found in -- a region full of cosmic "raw material" -- gas and dust.
In this remarkable image, Rob Gendler combines #Hubble telescope and ESO infrared data to show the dark Horsehead Nebula in Orion and a bright region of glowing gas that reminds me of a bulldog face.
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This image shows some of the hot, blue, young stars in the Trumpler 14 star cluster, as seen with the Hubble Space Telescope
This #Hubble telescope image shows the Trumpler 14 star cluster some 8000 lightyears away. The stars are extremely young, only half a million years old. Many will end their lives in a few million years in great explosions.
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As seen from the Moon by the Blue Ghost lander, the Earth eclipsed the Sun. Here the Sun emerges from eclipse and we get a "diamond ring" effect with the first bright flash of the emerging Sun.
The Blue Ghost Lander on the #Moon photographed last night's #lunareclipse from its unique vantage point. From the Moon, the Earth covered the Sun; here the Sun emerges from eclipse.
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The Vela supernova remnant region in the Southern Hemisphere skies. Complex area of glowing gases.
This remarkable image, processed by Robert Gendler, shows the complex region of the Vela supernova remnant, the glowing material from a massive star that exploded some 11,000 years ago.
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Saturn from the Hubble Space Telescope, with subtle atmospheric bands and its rich system of rings.
Astronomers have found 128 new moons orbiting the planet #Saturn, bringing its total number of moons to 274, the largest of any known planet. These are small worlds, but they orbit like other moons.
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The Rosette Nebula, a region of recent star formation, resembles a flower opening, with the glowing gas configured like the petals, and the newly formed stars at the bud.
The magnificent Rosette #nebula, a region of recent star formation, with a cluster of adolescent stars at center. It's about 5000 LY away and about 130 LY across. (Photo by Rob Gendler)
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The Pleiades star cluster -- a group of stars moving through a cloud of dust and gas, which reflect the stars' light with a blueish glow.
Among the most beautiful of #astronomyimages is the view of the Pleiades - a cluster of stars ~450 lightyears away, that are moving through are region of dust and gas, which reflects their light with a blue glow.
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The impressive globular cluster of stars called 47 Tucanae, a massive, old, and bright grouping.
Another favorite image: the globular cluster 47 Tucanae - a massive collection of a million or more stars, many very old. Such clusters let us trace the shape of our galaxy & estimate its age.
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The Bullseye Galaxy, which shows nine rings of stars and interstellar matter, as a result of a collision with another galaxy.
This #hubblespacetelescope image shows a big galaxy (2.5 x Milky Way size) nicknamed "the bullseye." The little blue galaxy just to the left of it went through its bigger neighbor, leaving 9 rings, much like ripples.
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The Spaghetti nebula, a complex supernova remnant, with many red curlicues.
Another favorite image, the Spaghetti Nebula, a complex remnant left when a massive star exploded at the end of its life. We estimate the supernova happened 40,000 years ago and the remnant is now 160 lightyears wide.
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Saturn casting a shadow on its own rings.
What's your favorite image from our exploration of the solar system? Mine is this image of Saturn casting a shadow on its ring system. The Sun's off to the bottom left, a perspective only a spacecraft image can show us.
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Geological features on Mars that resemble hearts. For more info, seer: https://www.planetary.org/space-images/hearts-on-mars
If you're observing Valentine's day belatedly, or continuing celebrating into the weekend, here's a photo montage, released by the #planetarysociety showing the many features on the surface of Mars that resemble hearts.
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An open cluster of young stars and cosmic raw material called NGC 2040
For Valentine's Day, the Gemini Telescope South has released this colorful image of NGC2040, a cosmic rose - a region of hot young stars & cosmic raw material 160,000 lightyears away in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy. #astronomy #astroedu #geminiobservatories #astronomyimages #starformation
