Colliding Galaxies NGC 7318, Part Of Stephan’s Quintet

Hubble Peers into the Storm

NASA - Hubble Space Telescope patch. Sept. 9, 2016

This shot from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a maelstrom of glowing gas and dark dust within one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). This stormy scene shows a stellar nursery known as N159, an HII region over 150 light-years across. N159 contains many hot young stars. These stars are emitting intense ultraviolet light, which causes nearby hydrogen gas to glow, and torrential stellar winds, which are carving out ridges, arcs, and filaments from the surrounding material. At the heart of this cosmic cloud lies the Papillon Nebula, a butterfly-shaped region of nebulosity. This small, dense object is classified as a High-Excitation Blob, and is thought to be tightly linked to the early stages of massive star formation.

Hubble orbiting Earth

N159 is located over 160,000 light-years away. It resides just south of the Tarantula Nebula (heic1402), another massive star-forming complex within the LMC.  This image comes from Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys.  The region was previously imaged by Hubble’s Wide Field Planetary Camera 2, which also resolved the Papillon Nebula for the first time. Related links: heic1402: https://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1402/ Hubble’s Wide Field Planetary Camera 2: https://www.spacetelescope.org/about/general/instruments/wfpc2/ For more information about the Hubble Space Telescope, visit: http://hubblesite.org/ http://www.nasa.gov/hubble https://www.spacetelescope.org/ Image, Video, Text, Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA/Text credit: European Space Agency/NASA/Karl Hille. Greetings, Orbiter.ch Full article

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The Juno spacecraft just recorded these creepy sounds around Jupiter

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The Milky Way was so very alive this weekend in the backcountry.. Hope you all had a chance to look up and watch the cosmos whiz by.. #stars #nightphotography #nightsky #darksky #adventure

The Running Chicken Nebula.

Image Credit & Copyright: Andrew Campbell

M7: Open Star Cluster in Scorpius : M7 is one of the most prominent open clusters of stars on the sky. The cluster, dominated by bright blue stars, can be seen with the naked eye in a dark sky in the tail of the constellation of the Scorpion . M7 contains about 100 stars in total, is about 200 million years old, spans 25 light-years across, and lies about 1000 light-years away. The featured wide-angle image was taken near the city of Belo Horizonte in Brazil. The M7 star cluster has been known since ancient times, being noted by Ptolemy in the year 130 AD. Also visible are a dark dust cloud on the lower right, and, in the background, literally millions of unrelated stars towards the Galactic center. via NASA

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A cosmic concoction in NGC 2467

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Southern NGC7000

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What is the difference between a supernova and a hypernova?

That’s a really good question, and the simple answer is that a hypernova produces way more energy than a standard supernova. Supernovae are known as being bright explosions from massive stars, and their remnant is usually a neutron star.

Hypernovae, however, more commonly produce black holes due to being from stars more massive than those that cause supernovae. Often time, they appear brighter too, which is why an alternate name for hypernovae is “superluminous supernovae”. Hypernovae are sometimes also the cause of gamma-ray bursts, a dangerous release of energy so high that it will fry anything in its path.

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NGC 2736: The Pencil Nebula

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Wide-field view of the sky around the exotic binary star system AR Scorpii

This wide-field image from the Digitized Sky Survey 2 shows the rich starfields surrounding the exotic binary star system AR Scorpii.

Credit: Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin