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Comet C/2014 Q2 Lovejoy and the Pleiades

Image credit: Joseph Brimacombe

NGC 2403

Chandra Telescope Discovers Dark Matter

made this a few days ago, couldn’t decide which colors i liked better

NASA Ultra Deep Field 2014 - 10,000 Galaxies

In 2004, NASA pointed the Hubble into a very small section of space and the result was amazing…

2018 August 24

Messier 20 and 21 Image Credit & Copyright: Ignacio Diaz Bobillo

Explanation: The beautiful Trifid Nebula, also known as Messier 20, is easy to find with a small telescope in the nebula rich constellation Sagittarius. About 5,000 light-years away, the colorful study in cosmic contrasts shares this well-composed, nearly 1 degree wide field with open star cluster Messier 21 (bottom right). Trisected by dust lanes the Trifid itself is about 40 light-years across and a mere 300,000 years old. That makes it one of the youngest star forming regions in our sky, with newborn and embryonic stars embedded in its natal dust and gas clouds. Estimates of the distance to open star cluster M21 are similar to M20’s, but though they share this gorgeous telescopic skyscape there is no apparent connection between the two. In fact, M21’s stars are much older, about 8 million years old.

∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180824.html

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