Check out this beautiful galaxy with a beautiful heart, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope! 😍🌌🤩
It's called NGC 5033, and it lives about 40 million light-years away from us. It's a similar size in our own Milky Way galaxy (about 100,000 light-years across), and is found in the constellation Canes Venatici, or the Hunting Dogs.
The spiral arms of the galaxy are dotted with blue spots. These are regions where star formation is very high and ongoing. They're full of hot young stars, while older stars in the galaxy are cooler and appear redder in colour.
Unlike the Milky Way, NGC 5033 does not have a central bar. In its place, NGC 5033 has an energetic and bright core that we refer to as an active galactic nucleus. This core shines brightly in all wavelengths of light, and is caused by the central black hole of the galaxy swallowing stars, dust and gas. As all this matter falls inot the black hole, it heats up and glows incredibly brightly.
Hubble watches stars bloom in this beautiful rose-like galaxy named NGC 972 🤩🌌🌹
The image shows bright, colorful pockets of star formation blooming like roses in this spiral galaxy, just under 70 million light-years away.
The orange-pink glow is made by hydrogen gas reacting to intense light streaming outwards from nearby newborn stars; these bright patches can be seen here amid dark, tangled streams of cosmic dust.
JWST sees the same supernova multiple times thanks to gravitational lensing 🤩😍
It's known as SN H0pe, and the image was taken as part of a programme to confirm the Hubble tension (which it did, the problem is still there!😅). Read more at the link below, or just enjoy the beautiful image here!
Image credit:
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, B. Frye (University of Arizona), R. Windhorst (Arizona State University), S. Cohen (Arizona State University), J. D’Silva (University of Western Australia, Perth), A. Koekemoer (Space Telescope Science Institute), J. Summers (Arizona State University).
*Hubble Captures Unique Ultraviolet View of a Spectacular Star Cluster*
The Hubble Space Telescope has just imaged a beautiful star cluster called NGC 346. It lives in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), which is a small satellie galaxy of the Milky Way, about 210,000 light-years away.
The hot stars in the cluster blast radiation and energetic outflows into space, eating away at the dense dust clouds in the surrounding nebula (named N66). Dozens of hot, blue, and high-mass stars shine inside NGC 346, and we think that this cluster contains more than half of the known high-mass stars in the whole SMC.
The images here were taken to learn more about star formation and how it impacts the interstellar medium, which is the gas and dust in the space between stars.
Image credits: NASA, ESA, and C. Murray (Space Telescope Science Institute); Image Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America), A. James (STScI), ESO/VISTA VMC
Check out these beautiful stars, imaged by JWST 😍🌌🌟
This is an open cluster of stars called Westerlund 1 and which is about 12,000 lightyears away. The image shows off a huge range of stars of all types, in all phases of their evolution. There's even some pretty red dust/gas at the top too!
This image from the Euclid Space Telescope just got even better! This is Abell 2390, a giant conglomeration of many galaxies like the Milky Way, located 2.7 billion light-years from Earth. Euclid’s image was obtained from observations in visible and near-infrared light and features more than 50 000 galaxies, thousands of which are part of the cluster.
The Euclid data has been combined with x-ray light captured by ESA's XMM-Newton Telescope. The x-rays appear as a blue glow that permeates the expanses between the galaxies. The diffuse light is brighter towards the centre of the cluster, indicating that there the gas becomes hotter and more concentrated.
The temperature of the gas ranges between 10 to 100 million degrees Celsius. By mapping where the hot gas is located and studying how it behaves, astronomers learn more about how galaxy clusters grow, and about how galaxies interact and evolve in this dynamic environment.
The first image shows the composite image of x-ray and Euclid data, while the second is just the Euclid image, for comparison.
Check out these amazing JWST images, now with addrd X-ray data from the Chandra telescope! The purples are X-ray sources, often bright emission from quasars or near black holes, or very hot gas!
JWST has revisited an awesome protostar - a violent region in space that is forming a star as we watch!
This new image is a mid-infrared image taken with MIRI, and it complements a near-infrared image it took months ago! I made a video when that first image came out, so check it out here to learn all about this awesome object: https://youtu.be/7WHBLZg42eU
The protostar is called L1527, and I hope you enjoy how beautiful it is.
See you on a new video soon, stay safe team <3
Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI. This image includes filters representing 7.7 microns light as blue, 12.8 microns light as green, and 18 microns light as red.
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Check out this beautiful galaxy with a beautiful heart, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope! 😍🌌🤩
It's called NGC 5033, and it lives about 40 million light-years away from us. It's a similar size in our own Milky Way galaxy (about 100,000 light-years across), and is found in the constellation Canes Venatici, or the Hunting Dogs.
The spiral arms of the galaxy are dotted with blue spots. These are regions where star formation is very high and ongoing. They're full of hot young stars, while older stars in the galaxy are cooler and appear redder in colour.
Unlike the Milky Way, NGC 5033 does not have a central bar. In its place, NGC 5033 has an energetic and bright core that we refer to as an active galactic nucleus. This core shines brightly in all wavelengths of light, and is caused by the central black hole of the galaxy swallowing stars, dust and gas. As all this matter falls inot the black hole, it heats up and glows incredibly brightly.
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Read more here: science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-sets-sight…
Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Judy Schmidt
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Look at the outer planets evolve over a decade of Hubble observations! 😍🌌🛰️
Read more here: esahubble.org/news/heic2416/
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Hubble watches stars bloom in this beautiful rose-like galaxy named NGC 972
🤩🌌🌹
The image shows bright, colorful pockets of star formation blooming like roses in this spiral galaxy, just under 70 million light-years away.
The orange-pink glow is made by hydrogen gas reacting to intense light streaming outwards from nearby newborn stars; these bright patches can be seen here amid dark, tangled streams of cosmic dust.
Read more here: science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-watches-st…
Image credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, L. Ho
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Let me know if you're making any space-themed pumpkins or outfits for Halloween this year, or if you'd consider making one of these JWST pumpkins!
Happy hallo-holidays to those that celebrate! 🎃👻🦇
More JWST designs and guides HERE: science.nasa.gov/mission/webb/space-pumpkin/?utm_s…
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JWST sees the same supernova multiple times thanks to gravitational lensing 🤩😍
It's known as SN H0pe, and the image was taken as part of a programme to confirm the Hubble tension (which it did, the problem is still there!😅). Read more at the link below, or just enjoy the beautiful image here!
Read more here: esawebb.org/images/H0pe/
Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, B. Frye (University of Arizona), R. Windhorst (Arizona State University), S. Cohen (Arizona State University), J. D’Silva (University of Western Australia, Perth), A. Koekemoer (Space Telescope Science Institute), J. Summers (Arizona State University).
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*Hubble Captures Unique Ultraviolet View of a Spectacular Star Cluster*
The Hubble Space Telescope has just imaged a beautiful star cluster called NGC 346. It lives in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), which is a small satellie galaxy of the Milky Way, about 210,000 light-years away.
The hot stars in the cluster blast radiation and energetic outflows into space, eating away at the dense dust clouds in the surrounding nebula (named N66). Dozens of hot, blue, and high-mass stars shine inside NGC 346, and we think that this cluster contains more than half of the known high-mass stars in the whole SMC.
The images here were taken to learn more about star formation and how it impacts the interstellar medium, which is the gas and dust in the space between stars.
Isn't it beautiful?!
Read more about the image here: science.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/goddard/hu…
Image credits: NASA, ESA, and C. Murray (Space Telescope Science Institute); Image Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America), A. James (STScI), ESO/VISTA VMC
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Check out these beautiful stars, imaged by JWST 😍🌌🌟
This is an open cluster of stars called Westerlund 1 and which is about 12,000 lightyears away. The image shows off a huge range of stars of all types, in all phases of their evolution. There's even some pretty red dust/gas at the top too!
Read more here: esawebb.org/images/potm2409a/
Image credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, M. Zamani (ESA/Webb), M. G. Guarcello (INAF-OAPA) and the EWOCS team
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This image from the Euclid Space Telescope just got even better! This is Abell 2390, a giant conglomeration of many galaxies like the Milky Way, located 2.7 billion light-years from Earth. Euclid’s image was obtained from observations in visible and near-infrared light and features more than 50 000 galaxies, thousands of which are part of the cluster.
The Euclid data has been combined with x-ray light captured by ESA's XMM-Newton Telescope. The x-rays appear as a blue glow that permeates the expanses between the galaxies. The diffuse light is brighter towards the centre of the cluster, indicating that there the gas becomes hotter and more concentrated.
The temperature of the gas ranges between 10 to 100 million degrees Celsius. By mapping where the hot gas is located and studying how it behaves, astronomers learn more about how galaxy clusters grow, and about how galaxies interact and evolve in this dynamic environment.
The first image shows the composite image of x-ray and Euclid data, while the second is just the Euclid image, for comparison.
Image credit: ESA/XMM-Newton/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA
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Check out these amazing JWST images, now with addrd X-ray data from the Chandra telescope! The purples are X-ray sources, often bright emission from quasars or near black holes, or very hot gas!
See more here: chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2024/25th/more.html
and here: www.nasa.gov/image-article/take-a-summer-cosmic-ro…
Image credit available at the links above :)
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JWST has revisited an awesome protostar - a violent region in space that is forming a star as we watch!
This new image is a mid-infrared image taken with MIRI, and it complements a near-infrared image it took months ago! I made a video when that first image came out, so check it out here to learn all about this awesome object: https://youtu.be/7WHBLZg42eU
The protostar is called L1527, and I hope you enjoy how beautiful it is.
See you on a new video soon, stay safe team <3
Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI. This image includes filters representing 7.7 microns light as blue, 12.8 microns light as green, and 18 microns light as red.
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