Astrophotography
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It's all about astrophotography.
This infrared image from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Helix nebula, a cosmic starlet often photographed by amateur astronomers for its vivid colors and eerie resemblance to a giant eye. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ.of Ariz.
This image shows the Antennae Galaxies (NGC 4038 & NGC 4039), 60 million light-years away in Corvus. These galaxies are in the process of merging, creating tidal tails and bursts of star formation from their gravitational interaction. Photo Credit: Robert Gendler
Crab nebula. A star that violently exploded ~970 years ago and left a neutron star in its center.
This image features the ZS7 galaxy system, showing a large field of hundreds of galaxies on the black background of space
NGC 604. This region is a hotbed of star formation and home to more than 200 of the hottest, most massive kinds of stars, all in the early stages of their lives. BY -jwst
One of the Universe’s prettiest mysteries — Hoag’s Object, a ring galaxy around 600 million light-years away in the constellation Serpens. Image Credit: NASA/ESA, Processing: Benoit Blanco
Feast your eyes on the Webb Telescope image of Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex, the closest star nursery to Earth!
A Mysterious Cosmic ‘Keyhole’ - (NGC 1999) (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, ESO, K. Noll)
Do you think you're sitting still right now? - You're on a planet that orbitis a star at 30km/s - That star is orbiting the center of a galaxy at 230km/s - That galaxy is moving trough the universe at 600km/s. Since you started reading this, you have traveled about 3000km.
The Pinwheel Galaxy (M101) holds about a trillion stars and is bigger than our own Milky Way (Credit: NASA/ESA)
This iconic view shows Mystic Mountain, located within the Carina Nebula.[NASA]
Eye in the sky. You're looking at the Ring Nebula, the remnant of a star that had the mass of 3 suns and exploded ~4,000 years ago.jwst
Hubble gazes upon the universe from the ultimate mountaintop – space! Turns out, it found some "mountains" too. This iconic view shows Mystic Mountain, located within the Carina Nebula.
NGC 972, this spiral galaxy is just under 70 million light-years away from us.HUBBLE
The “Pillars of Creation” by James Webb Space Telescope 🌌 🛰️
