Astronomers Long Thought That A Peculiar Star System Observed By The European Space Agency’s Gaia Satellite

NGC 6726

Charon: Moon of Pluto

Credits: NASA, Johns Hopkins Univ./APL, Southwest Research Institute

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2 years ago I took my first photo of the Milky Way - I still get giddy when looking up at the endless blanket of stars. [3975x5962] [OC] by Jorgey94

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Daytime moon

Wide-field view of the sky around NGC 6744 [3993 x 4000] by RyanSmith

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#Repost @natgeotravel • • • One-minute journey to the heart of the Milky Way. Video by @babaktafreshi & @esoastronomy The World at Night project We begin this on a photograph of a starry night in California with the setting moon shining on sandstone rock formations. My colleagues at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) announced an exciting discovery a few days ago. Direct observation of Einstein’s general relativity on a star very close to the 4-million solar mass black hole in the Galactic Center. The swarm of stars orbiting rapidly around the supermassive blackhole have been observed for about 3 decades, leading to this discovery. The second part of the video, created by ESO, is a combination of telescopic images, all the way to some of the world’s largest ones called the VLT (Very Large Telescope). Follow me @babaktafreshi to explore more of astronomy & space photography. #milkyway #blackhole #astrophotography #astronomy #nightphotography @natgeocreative @natgeo

What glows there? The answer depends: sea or sky? In the sea, the unusual blue glow is bioluminescence. Specifically, the glimmer arises from Noctiluca scintillans, single-celled plankton stimulated by the lapping waves.

The plankton use their glow to startle and illuminate predators. This mid-February display on an island in the Maldives was so intense that the astrophotographer described it as a turquoise wonderland.

In the sky, by contrast, are the more familiar glows of stars and nebulas. The white band rising from the artificially-illuminated green plants is created by billions of stars in the central disk of our Milky Way Galaxy.

Also visible in the sky is the star cluster Omega Centauri, toward the left, and the famous Southern Cross asterism in the center.

Red-glowing nebulas include the bright Carina Nebula, just right of center, and the expansive Gum Nebula on the upper right.

📷: Petr Horálek / Institute of Physics in Opava, Sovena Jani

Centaurus A - NGC 5128