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NASA Hubble image of Barred SPiral Galaxy NGC 1300
Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1300
Credit: Hubble Heritage Team, ESA, NASA
Saturn Behind the Moon
Image Credit: Peter Patonai (Astroscape Photography)
Saturn like Exo Planet discovered in the habitable zone of another star system by a bunch of relatively amateur astronomers — under the umbrella called Habitable Exoplanet Hunting Project. (HEHP)
Watch the video here : https://youtu.be/0A7gEaewOws
The Pillars of Creation at the centre of M16 or the Eagle Nebula
Credits: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
GLOBAL VIEW OF VENUS IN ULTRAVIOLET FROM AKATSUKI
A false-color image using two ultraviolet channels from Akatsuki's UVI camera at 283 nm and 365 nm distinguishes different components of the Venusian atmosphere.
VENUS' NIGHTSIDE GLOW
This image shows the night side of Venus in thermal infrared. It is a false-colour image using data from Akatsuki.
VENUS' SOUTH POLE IN ULTRAVIOLET FROM AKATSUKI, JUNE 20, 2016
A false-color image using two ultraviolet channels from Akatsuki's UVI camera, showing details along a colourful band encircling Venus' south polar vortex in morning daylight.
Images Credit : JAXA / ISAS / DARTS / Damia Bouic
VENUS' COUPLED DYNAMICS AND SULFUR CHEMISTRY FROM AKATSUKI, JULY 23, 2016
A false-color image using two ultraviolet channels from Akatsuki's UVI camera. Venus' cloud dynamics are just as complex as Earth's.
Note : Akatsuki is a Japanese mission launched in 2010 to orbit Venus (which it failed the first time) but successfully entered Venus' orbit on December the 7th, 2015.
EQUATORIAL REGION OF VENUS FROM AKATSUKI
Images acquired during orbit number 13 of the Japanese probe Akatsuki show an incredible amount of detail on the equatorial, tropical, and extra-tropical clouds of the planet
VENUS IN INFRARED FROM AKATSUKI: CLOUD WAVE
This view of Venus was acquired by the Japanese Akatsuki spacecraft's IR2 camera, which observes—among other things—the "warmth" of the planet's atmosphere on its nocturnal side.
The Horsehead Nebula in Infrared from Hubble
Fittingly named the Horsehead Nebula, it is embedded in the vast and complex Orion Nebula (M42). A potentially rewarding but difficult object to view personally with a small telescope, the above gorgeously detailed image was taken in 2013 in infrared light by the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope in honor of the 23rd anniversary of Hubble's launch. The dark molecular cloud, roughly 1,500 light years distant, is cataloged as Barnard 33 and is seen above primarily because it is backlit by the nearby massive star Sigma Orionis . (Text adapted from APOD.NASA.GOV)
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Hubble sees a more holistic view of the Butterfly Nebula or NGC 6302
Hubble was recently retrained on NGC 6302, known as the "Butterfly Nebula," to observe it across a more complete spectrum of light, from near-ultraviolet to near-infrared, helping researchers better understand the mechanics at work in its technicolor "wings" of gas. The "wings" of NGC 6302 are regions of gas heated to more than 36,000 degrees Fahrenheit that are tearing across space at more than 600,000 miles an hour. NGC 6302 lies between 2,500 and 3,800 light-years away in the constellation Scorpius.