Beware Of The Big, Bad Wolf

The best photographs that the Hubble space telescope has ever taken.

1. Sombrero galaxy

2.  V838 Monocerotis

3. Jupiter’s great red spot

4. Carina nebula

5. Interacting galaxies

6. Pillars of creation

7. Cat’s eye nebula

8.  Planetary Nebula NGC 5189

9.  Abell 2744 Frontier Field

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Astronomy Photo of the Day: 5/30/15 — Vividly Blue NGC 7822

This beautifully blue image comes from Manuel Fernández Suarez—an award winning astrophotographer. It provides a window into the heart of a stellar nursery, found approximately 3,000 light-years from Earth in the Cepheus constellation.

Called NGC 7822, it lurks on the outskirts of a behemoth molecular cloud (one of the largest in our galaxy), and contains numerous features, like the star cluster known as Berkeley 59, along with one of the hottest stars in our local part of the galaxy—called BD+66 1673 (there, temperatures can exceed 45,000 K).

As we noted before, “The region, formally known as NGC 7822, contains hundreds of newborn stars that are leaving their own mark on the interstellar material surrounding them, seeding it with heavy elements that will ultimately collapse to give life to a new generation of stars. These same stars are also slowly chipping away at some of the material, they in turn, give it its distinct shape and its designation as an emission nebula.”

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Image Credit: Manuel Fernández Suarez

Saturn and its moons

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

A stellar fingerprint - an emission-line star known as IRAS 12196-6300

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The Infrared Visible Andromeda: This remarkable synthetic color composite image was assembled from archives of visible light and infrared astronomy image data. The field of view spans the Andromeda Galaxy are also included in the frame. via NASA

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Awesome time lapse shot of the falcon rocket Space X launched over LA last night, I could see it clear from Long Beach…

Moon and Venus by frankastro

The full rotation of the Moon as seen by NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter

Image of Messier 81 (M81). Located about 12 million light-years away in the Ursa Major constellation, M81 is among the brightest of the galaxies visible by telescope from Earth.

Image credit:NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA