Hubble Spots A Secluded Starburst Galaxy : This Image, Taken By The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescopes

“Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let them live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.”   ~ Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Panorama from the Apollo 15 mission

Top: Hubble’s infrared vision pierced the dusty heart of our Milky Way galaxy to reveal more than half a million stars at its core. At the very hub of our galaxy, this star cluster surrounds the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole, which is about 4 million times the mass of our sun.

Credits: NASA, ESA, and Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA, Acknowledgment: T. Do, A.Ghez (UCLA), V. Bajaj (STScI)

Bottom: This annotated, infrared image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the scale of the galactic core. The galaxy’s nucleus (marked) is home to a central, supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A-star.

Credits: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) Acknowledgment: T. Do, A.Ghez (UCLA),V. Bajaj (STScI)

Astronomers just discovered the most distant galaxy cluster ever seen

Scientists managed to spot a cluster of galaxies 11.1 billion light-years away. That’s almost an inconceivable distance when you consider that one light-year is roughly 6 trillion miles. The discovery is important because it reveals new information about the actual time when galaxy clusters started forming. 

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The Running Chicken Nebula.

Image Credit & Copyright: Andrew Campbell

Expedition 48 Crew Preparing to Return Home via NASA http://ift.tt/2bV7T75

The Sunflower Galaxy

TODAY IN HISTORY: On July 31, 1971, moonwalker Jim Irwin works at the lunar rover the first EVA of the Apollo 15 mission. In the background is Mount Hadley. Photo by Dave Scott. (NASA)

Enceladus, the sixth-largest moon of Saturn

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