A Hexagonal Storm With A Diameter Of 25,000 Km Raging At The North Pole Of Saturn.

Orion, The Great Hunter

The close-up of the Andromeda Galaxy from the Hubble Space Telescope shows how many stars there really are.

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NGC 1569, Star Sparks

Andromeda over the Swiss Alps Image Credit: Dzmitry Kananovich

Astronomical photographs, Harvard College Observatory, Cambridge, 1890-1920

Two spiral galaxies, NGC 6040 and NGC 6039, are merging together at the right side of this Hubble image. NGC 6039 is seen face-on and is circular in shape. NGC 6040 seems to lie in front of the first one. In the lower-left corner, cut off by the frame, the elliptical galaxy NGC 6041 — a central member of the galaxy cluster that Arp 122 resides in — appears as light radiating from a point. The color image was made from separate exposures taken in the visible and infrared regions

Jupiter Swirling Storms l NASA Juno

First image of Saturn, taken in 1885, by Paul and Prosper Henry.

Saturn in 2017 as taken by Cassini:

And Saturn in 2023 in infrared, as taken by JWST

NGC 1365, Heart of the Universe

The glittering globular cluster Terzan 12 — a vast, tightly bound collection of stars — fills the frame of this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This star-studded stellar census comes from a string of observations that aim to systematically explore globular clusters located towards the centre of our galaxy, such as this one in the constellation Sagittarius. The locations of these globular clusters — deep in the Milky Way galaxy — mean that they are shrouded in gas and dust, which can block or alter the wavelengths of starlight emanating from the clusters.

Here, astronomers were able to sidestep the effect of gas and dust by comparing the new observations made with the razor-sharp vision of Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys and Wide-Field Camera 3 with pre-existing images. Their observations should shed light on the relation between age and composition in the Milky Way’s innermost globular clusters.

[Image Description: The frame is completely filled with bright stars, ranging from tiny dots to large, shining stars with prominent spikes. In the lower-right the stars come together in the core of the star cluster, making the brightest and densest area of the image. The background varies from darker and warmer in colour, to brighter and paler where there are more stars.]Credit:

ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Cohen (Rutgers University)

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Glittering globular cluster Terzan 12

Glittering globular cluster Terzan 12