Today, on Cosmonautics Day, we will enjoy pictures of the Hubble orbital telescope, which has been in orbit of our planet for more than twenty years and continues to reveal to us the secrets of space to this day.
NGC 5194
Known as NGC 5194, this large galaxy with a well-developed spiral structure may have been the first spiral nebula to be discovered. It is clearly seen that its spiral arms and dust lanes pass in front of its companion galaxy, NGC 5195 (left). This pair is about 31 million light-years away and officially belongs to the small constellation Canes Venatici.
Spiral galaxy M33 is a medium-sized galaxy from the Local Group. M33 is also called the Triangulum galaxy after the constellation in which it resides. About 4 times smaller (in radius) than our Milky Way Galaxy and the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), M33 is much larger than many dwarf galaxies. Due to its proximity to M31, M33 is thought by some to be a satellite of this more massive galaxy. M33 is not far from the Milky Way, its angular dimensions are more than twice the dimensions of the full moon, i.e. it is perfectly visible with good binoculars.
Stephen's Quintet
Group of galaxies - Stephen's quintet. However, only four of the group of galaxies, located 300 million light-years away from us, participate in the cosmic dance, now approaching, then moving away from each other. It's pretty easy to find one. Four interacting galaxies - NGC 7319, NGC 7318A, NGC 7318B and NGC 7317 - have a yellowish color and curved loops and tails, the shape of which is due to the influence of destructive tidal gravitational forces. The bluish galaxy NGC 7320, above left, is much closer than the others, only 40 million light-years away.
Andromeda Galaxy is the closest giant galaxy to our Milky Way. Most likely our galaxy looks about the same as the Andromeda galaxy. These two galaxies dominate the Local Group of galaxies. The hundreds of billions of stars that make up the Andromeda galaxy together give a visible diffuse glow. The individual stars in the image are actually stars in our galaxy, much closer than the distant object. The Andromeda Galaxy is often referred to as M31 because it is the 31st object in the catalog of diffuse celestial objects Charles Messier.
Nebula Lagoon
The bright Lagoon Nebula contains many different astronomical objects. Objects of particular interest include a bright open star cluster and several active star forming regions. In visual observation, the light from the cluster is lost against the background of a general red glow caused by the emission of hydrogen, while dark filaments arise from the absorption of light. dense layers dust.
The Cat's Eye Nebula (NGC 6543) is one of the most famous planetary nebulae in the sky. Its hauntingly symmetrical shapes are seen in the center of this spectacular false-color image, specially manipulated to show a huge but very faint halo of gaseous matter, about three light-years in diameter, surrounding a bright, familiar planetary nebula.
The small constellation Chameleon is located near south pole Peace. The picture reveals the amazing features of the humble constellation, which is full of dusty nebulae and colorful stars. Blue reflection nebulae are scattered across the field.
Cosmic dust clouds faintly glowing with reflected starlight. Far from our familiar places on planet Earth, they hide on the edge of the Cepheus Halo molecular cloud complex, 1200 light-years away from us. Nebula Sh2-136, located near the center of the field, is brighter than other ghostly visions. Its size is more than two light years, and it is visible even in infrared light.
The dark dusty Horsehead Nebula and the glowing Orion Nebula contrast in the sky. They are located at a distance of 1500 light years from us in the direction of the most recognizable celestial constellation. And in today's wonderful composite photo, the nebulae occupy opposite corners. The familiar Horsehead Nebula is a small dark cloud in the shape of a horse's head looming against the background of red glowing gas in the lower left corner of the picture.
crab nebula
This confusion remained after the explosion of the star. The Crab Nebula is the result of a supernova explosion that was observed in 1054 AD. The remnant of a supernova is filled with mysterious filaments. The filaments are not just complicated to look at. The Crab Nebula is ten light-years across. At the very center of the nebula is a pulsar - a neutron star with a mass equal to the mass of the Sun, which fits in an area the size of a small town.
This is a mirage from a gravitational lens. The bright red galaxy (LRG) pictured here has its gravity distorting light from a more distant blue galaxy. Most often, such a distortion of light leads to the appearance of two images. distant galaxy, however, in the case of a very precise superimposition of the galaxy and the gravitational lens, the images merge into a horseshoe - an almost closed ring. This effect was predicted by Albert Einstein 70 years ago.
Star V838 Mon
For unknown reasons, in January 2002, the outer shell of the star V838 Mon suddenly expanded, making this star the brightest star in all Milky Way. Then she became weak again, also suddenly. Astronomers have never seen a stellar flare like this before.
The birth of the planets
How are planets formed? To try and figure this out, the Hubble Space Telescope was tasked with taking a close look at one of the most interesting of all the nebulae in the sky, the Great Nebula of Orion. The Orion Nebula can be seen with the naked eye near the belt of the constellation Orion. The insets in this photo show numerous proplyds, many of which are stellar nurseries that likely host planetary systems in formation.
Star cluster R136
At the center of the star-forming region of 30 Doradus is a gigantic cluster of the largest, hottest, and most massive stars known to us. These stars form the R136 cluster in this visible-light image from the upgraded Hubble Space Telescope.
The brilliant NGC 253 is one of the brightest spiral galaxies we see, and at the same time one of the dustiest. Some call it the "Silver Dollar Galaxy" because in a small telescope it has the appropriate shape. Others simply call it "The Sculptor Galaxy" because it lies within the southern constellation Sculptor. This dusty galaxy is 10 million light-years away.
Galaxy M83
M83 is one of the closest spiral galaxies to us. From a distance that separates us from 15 million light years, it looks completely ordinary. However, if you take a closer look at the center of M83 using the most large telescopes, this area will appear before us as a stormy and noisy place.
Nebula Ring
It really looks like a ring in the sky. Therefore, hundreds of years ago, astronomers named this nebula according to its unusual shape. The Ring Nebula also has the designations M57 and NGC 6720. The Ring Nebula is classified as a planetary nebula, these are gas clouds that stars similar to the Sun throw out at the end of their lives. Its size exceeds the diameter. This is one of the earliest images of Hubble.
Pillar and jets in the Carina Nebula
This cosmic column of gas and dust is two light years wide. The structure is located in one of the largest star-forming regions in our Galaxy, the Carina Nebula, which is visible in the southern sky and is 7500 light-years away from us.
Center of the globular cluster Omega Centauri
In the center of the globular cluster Omega Centauri, the stars are packed ten thousand times denser than the stars in the vicinity of the Sun. The image shows many faint yellow-white stars, smaller than our Sun, several orange red giants, as well as occasional blue stars. If suddenly two stars collide, then one more massive star can form, or they form a new binary system.
Giant cluster distorts and splits the image of the galaxy
Many of them are images of a single unusual, bead-like, blue ring galaxy that happens to be located behind a giant cluster of galaxies. According to recent research, in total, at least 330 images of individual distant galaxies can be found in the picture. This stunning photograph of the galaxy cluster CL0024+1654 was taken by the Space Telescope. Hubble in November 2004.
Trifid Nebula
The beautiful multicolored Trifid Nebula allows you to explore cosmic contrasts. Also known as M20, it lies some 5,000 light-years away in the nebula-rich constellation of Sagittarius. The size of the nebula is about 40 light years.
Centaurus A
A fantastic bunch of young blue star clusters, giant glowing gas clouds and dark dust lanes surround the central region of the active galaxy Centaurus A. Centaurus A is close to Earth, at a distance of 10 million light years
Butterfly Nebula
Bright clusters and nebulae in planet Earth's night sky are often named after flowers or insects, and NGC 6302 is no exception. The central star of this planetary nebula is exceptionally hot, with a surface temperature of around 250,000 degrees Celsius.
An image of a supernova that exploded in 1994 on the outskirts of a spiral galaxy.
This remarkable cosmic portrait shows two colliding galaxies with merging spiral arms. Above and to the left of the large spiral galaxy of the NGC 6050 pair, a third galaxy can be seen, which is also likely to be involved in the interaction. All of these galaxies are about 450 million light-years away in the Hercules cluster of galaxies. At this distance, the image spans over 150,000 light-years. And although this view seems quite unusual, scientists now know that collisions and subsequent mergers of galaxies are not uncommon.
Spiral galaxy NGC 3521 lies just 35 million light-years away towards the constellation Leo. The galaxy, which spans 50,000 light-years, has features such as ragged spiral arms irregular shape, adorned with dust, pinkish star-forming regions and clusters of young bluish stars.
Although this unusual outlier was first seen in the early twentieth century, its origin is still a matter of debate. The picture above, taken in 1998 by the Hubble Space Telescope, clearly shows details of the jet's structure. The most popular hypothesis suggests that the source of the ejection was heated gas orbiting a massive black hole at the center of the galaxy.
Sombrero galaxy
The appearance of the M104 galaxy resembles a hat, which is why it was called the Sombrero galaxy. The image shows distinct dark dust lanes and a bright halo of stars and globular clusters. The reasons why the Sombrero Galaxy looks like a hat are an unusually large central stellar bulge and dense dark lanes of dust located in the disk of the galaxy, which we can see almost edge-on.
M17 close-up view
Shaped by stellar winds and radiation, these fantastic wave-like formations are found in the M17 Nebula (Omega Nebula) and are part of a star forming region. The Omega Nebula lies in the nebula-rich constellation of Sagittarius and is 5,500 light-years away. Ragged clumps of dense and cold gas and dust are illuminated by the radiation of the stars in the image at the top right, in the future they can become sites of star formation.
What illuminates the nebula IRAS 05437+2502? So far, there is no definitive answer. Particularly enigmatic is the bright, inverted V-shaped arc that delineates the upper edge of mountain-like interstellar dust clouds near the center of the image. All in all, this ghostly nebula contains a small star-forming region filled with dark dust. It was first seen in infrared images taken by the IRAS satellite in 1983. Shown here is a wonderful, recently published image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Although it shows a lot of new details, the reason for the appearance of a bright, clear arc could not be established.
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The planet we live on is incredibly beautiful. But who among us has not wondered, looking into the starry sky: what would life be like in other solar systems in our Milky Way galaxy or in others? So far, we don't even know if there is life there. But when you see this beauty, you want to think that it is not just like that, that everything makes sense, that if the stars light up, then someone needs it. The Antenna Galaxy was formed as a result of the merger of two galaxies, which began several hundred million years ago. The antenna is located at a distance of 45 million light years from our solar system. Two jets energized by the gas flow are ejected from the poles of the young star.
You can indulge right after looking at these amazing photos space phenomena in the Universe.1
Galaxy Antenna
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young star
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Nebula Horsehead
The Horsehead Nebula, dark in optical light, appears transparent and ethereal in infrared, shown here, with visible hues.
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Bubble Nebula
The picture was taken in February 2016 with the Hubble Wide Space Telescope.The nebula is 7 light-years across, about 1.5 times farther than the distance from our sun to its nearest stellar neighbor, Alpha Centauri, and lies 7,100 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Cassiopeia.
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Nebula Snail
The Helix Nebula is a flaming, gaseous envelope formed by the death of a sun-like star. The cochlea consists of two gaseous disks almost perpendicular to each other, and is located 690 light-years away, and is one of the closest planetary nebulae to Earth.
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Jupiter's moon - Io
Io is Jupiter's closest moon.Io is about the size of our moon and orbits Jupiter.1.8 days, while our Moon revolves around the Earth every 28 days.The black spot on Jupiter is striking - this is the shadow of Io, whichfloats across the face of Jupiter at a speed of 17 kilometers per second.
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NGC 1300
barred spiral galaxy NGC 1300 aboutdiffers from normal spiral galaxies in that the arms of the galaxy do not grow all the way to the center, but are connected to the two ends of a straight bar of stars containing a core at its center.The core of the large spiral structure of the galaxy NGC 1300 shows its own unique grand spiral structure design that is about 3300 light years away.The galaxy is far away from usabout 69 million light years in the direction of the constellation Eridanus.
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Nebula cat's eye
Nebula cat's eye- one of the first discovered planetary nebulae, and one of the most complex, in observable space.The planetary nebula is formed when sun-like stars carefully eject their outer gaseous layers, which form bright nebulae with amazing and complex structures..
The Cat's Eye Nebula is located 3,262 light-years from our solar system.
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Galaxy NGC 4696
NGC 4696 is the largest galaxy in the Centaurus cluster.New Hubble images show the dusty filaments around the center of this vast galaxy in more detail than ever before.These filaments twist inward in an intriguing spiral shape around a supermassive black hole.
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Star cluster Omega Centauri
The globular star cluster Omega Centauri contains 10 million stars and is the largest of the approximately 200 globular clusters orbiting our Milky Way Galaxy. Omega Centauri is located at a distance of 17,000 light years from Earth.
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Galaxy Penguin
Galaxy Penguin.From our point of view, considered by Hubble, this pair of interacting galaxies resembles a penguin guarding its egg. NGC 2936, once a standard spiral galaxy, is deformed and borders on NGC 2937, a smaller elliptical galaxy.The galaxies lie about 400 million light years in the constellation Hydra.
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Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula
The Pillars of Creation - the remains of the central part of the gas-dust nebula Eagle in the constellation Serpens, consist, like the entire nebula, mainly of cold molecular hydrogen and dust. The nebula is located at a distance of 7,000 distant light years from us.
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Abell Galaxy Cluster S1063
This image of Hubble is a very chaotic universe filled with distant and nearby galaxies.Some are distorted like a curved mirror due to the curvature of space, a phenomenon first predicted by Einstein a hundred years ago.At the center of the image is the huge galaxy cluster Abell S1063, located 4 billion light-years away.
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Whirlpool Galaxy
The graceful, twisting arms of the majestic spiral galaxy M51 appear like a grand spiral staircase hurtling through space. They are actually long lanes of stars and gas, saturated with dust.
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Star nursery in the Carina Nebula
Billowing clouds of cold interstellar gas and dust rise from the raging Stellar Nursery, located 7,500 light-years away in the Southern constellation of Carina.This pillar of dust and gas serves as an incubator for new stars.Hot, young stars and blurring clouds create this fantastic landscape, sending out stellar winds and scorching ultraviolet light.
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Sombrero Galaxy
The hallmark of the Sombrero Galaxy is a brilliant white core surrounded by a thick layer of dust that forms the spiral structure of the galaxy.. The Sombrero lies at the southern edge of the Virgo Cluster and is one of the most massive objects in this group, equivalent to 800 billion suns.The galaxy is 50,000 light years and is located 28 million light years from Earth.
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Butterfly Nebula
What resemble graceful butterfly wings are actually boilers of gas heated to more than 36,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The gas is rushing through space at more than 600,000 miles per hour. A dying star that was once about five times the mass of the Sun is at the center of this fury. The Butterfly Nebula is located in our Milky Way galaxy, about 3,800 light-years away in the constellation Scorpio.
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crab nebula
Pulse in the core of the Crab Nebula. While many other images of the Crab Nebula have focused on filaments in the outer part of the nebula, this image shows the very heart of the nebula including the central neutron star - the rightmost of the two bright stars near the center of this image. A neutron star has the same mass as the sun, but is compressed into an incredibly dense sphere several kilometers in diameter. Rotating 30 times per second, the neutron star releases beams of energy, making it appear to pulsate. The Crab Nebula lies 6,500 light-years away in the constellation Taurus.
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Pre-planetary nebula IRA 23166+1655
One of the finest geometric shapes created in space, this image shows the formation of an unusual pre-planetary nebula known as IRA 23166+1655 around the star LL Pegasi in the constellation Pegasus.
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Nebula Retina
A dying star, IC 4406 shows a high degree of symmetry; the left and right halves of the Hubble image are almost mirror images of the other. If we could fly around IC 4406 in spaceship, we would see the gas and dust form a vast doughnut out of the substantial outflow from the dying star. From Earth, we view the donut from the side. This side view allows us to see intricate tendrils of dust that have compared to the retina of the eye. The nebula lies about 2,000 light-years away, near the southern constellation Lupus.
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Monkey Head Nebula
NGC 2174 is 6,400 light-years distant from us in the constellation Orion. The colorful region is filled with young stars encased in bright wisps of cosmic gas and dust. This part of the Monkey Head Nebula was captured in 2014 by Hubble Camera 3.
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Spiral Galaxy ESO 137-001
This galaxy looks strange. One side of it looks like a typical spiral galaxy, while the other side seems to be destroyed. The bluish streaks that stretch down and out from the galaxy are clusters of hot young stars trapped in jets of gas. These shreds of matter will never return to the bosom of the parent galaxy. Like a huge fish with its belly torn open, the galaxy ESO 137-001 plows through space, losing its insides.
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Giant tornadoes in the Lagoon Nebula
This image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows long interstellar ‘tornadoes’ — eerie tubes and twisted structures — at the heart of the Lagoon Nebula, which lies 5,000 light-years in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius.
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Gravity lenses in Abell 2218
This rich cluster of galaxies is made up of thousands of individual galaxies and lies about 2.1 billion light-years from Earth in the Northern constellation Draco. Astronomers use gravitational lenses as powerful magnifications for distant galaxies. Strong gravitational forces not only amplify the images of hidden galaxies, but also distort them into long, thin arcs.
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Hubble's farthest position
Each object in this image is a separate galaxy made up of billions of stars. This view of nearly 10,000 galaxies is the deepest image of the cosmos. Called "Extreme Outer Position" (or Hubble's Ultra-Deep Field) by Hubble, this image represents a "deep" core sample of the universe shrinking across billions of light-years. The image includes galaxies of various ages, sizes, shapes and colors. The smallest, reddest galaxies may be among the most distant ones that have existed since the universe was only 800 million years old. The closest galaxies—larger, brighter, well-defined spirals and ellipticals—thrived about 1 billion years ago, when the cosmos was 13 billion years old. In stark contrast, along with a host of classic spiral and elliptical galaxies, there is a zoo of bizarre galaxies that litter the area. Some look like toothpicks; others are like a link on a bracelet.
In ground-based photographs, the area of the sky inhabited by galaxies (just one-tenth the diameter of a full moon) is mostly empty. The image required 800 exposures taken during Hubble's 400 orbits around the Earth. The total exposure amount was 11.3 days spent between September 24, 2003 and January 16, 2004.
Here is a selection of images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope. It has been in the orbit of our planet for more than twenty years and continues to this day to reveal to us the secrets of space.
(Total 30 photos)
Known as NGC 5194, this large galaxy with a well-developed spiral structure may have been the first spiral nebula to be discovered. It is clearly seen that its spiral arms and dust lanes pass in front of its companion galaxy, NGC 5195 (left). This pair is about 31 million light-years away and officially belongs to the small constellation Canes Venatici.
2 Spiral Galaxy M33
Spiral galaxy M33 is a medium-sized galaxy in the Local Group. M33 is also called the Triangulum galaxy after the constellation in which it resides. About 4 times smaller (in radius) than our Milky Way Galaxy and the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), M33 is much larger than many dwarf galaxies. Due to its proximity to M31, M33 is thought by some to be a satellite of this more massive galaxy. M33 is not far from the Milky Way, its angular dimensions are more than twice the dimensions of the full moon, i.e. it is perfectly visible with good binoculars.
3. Stephen's Quintet
The group of galaxies is Stefan's quintet. However, only four of the group of galaxies, located 300 million light-years away from us, participate in the cosmic dance, now approaching, then moving away from each other. It's pretty easy to find one. Four interacting galaxies - NGC 7319, NGC 7318A, NGC 7318B and NGC 7317 - have a yellowish coloration and curved loops and tails, the shape of which is caused by the influence of destructive tidal gravitational forces. The bluish galaxy NGC 7320, above left, is much closer than the others, only 40 million light-years away.
4 Andromeda Galaxy
The Andromeda Galaxy is the closest of the giant galaxies to our Milky Way. Most likely our galaxy looks about the same as the Andromeda galaxy. These two galaxies dominate the Local Group of galaxies. The hundreds of billions of stars that make up the Andromeda galaxy together give a visible diffuse glow. The individual stars in the image are actually stars in our galaxy, much closer than the distant object. The Andromeda Galaxy is often referred to as M31, as it is the 31st object in Charles Messier's catalog of diffuse celestial objects.
5 Lagoon Nebula
The bright Lagoon Nebula contains many different astronomical objects. Objects of particular interest include a bright open star cluster and several active star forming regions. In visual observation, the light from the cluster is lost against the background of a general red glow caused by the emission of hydrogen, while dark filaments arise from the absorption of light by dense layers of dust.
6. Nebula Cat's Eye (NGC 6543)
The Cat's Eye Nebula (NGC 6543) is one of the most famous planetary nebulae in the sky. Its hauntingly symmetrical shapes are seen in the center of this spectacular false-color image, specially manipulated to show a huge but very faint halo of gaseous matter, about three light-years in diameter, surrounding a bright, familiar planetary nebula.
7. Small constellation Chameleon
The small constellation Chameleon is located near the south pole of the World. The picture reveals the amazing features of the humble constellation, which is full of dusty nebulae and colorful stars. Blue reflection nebulae are scattered across the field.
8. Nebula Sh2-136
Cosmic dust clouds faintly glowing with reflected starlight. Far from our familiar places on planet Earth, they hide on the edge of the Cepheus Halo molecular cloud complex, 1200 light-years away from us. Nebula Sh2-136, located near the center of the field, is brighter than other ghostly visions. It is over two light-years across and is visible even in infrared light.
9 Horsehead Nebula
The dark dusty Horsehead Nebula and the glowing Orion Nebula contrast in the sky. They are located at a distance of 1500 light years from us in the direction of the most recognizable celestial constellation. And in today's wonderful composite photo, the nebulae occupy opposite corners. The familiar Horsehead Nebula is a small dark cloud in the shape of a horse's head looming against the background of red glowing gas in the lower left corner of the picture.
10 Crab Nebula
This confusion remained after the explosion of the star. The Crab Nebula is the result of a supernova explosion that was observed in 1054 AD. The remnant of a supernova is filled with mysterious filaments. The filaments are not just complicated to look at. The Crab Nebula is ten light-years across. At the very center of the nebula is a pulsar - a neutron star with a mass equal to the mass of the Sun, which fits in an area the size of a small town.
11. Mirage from a gravitational lens
This is a mirage from a gravitational lens. The bright red galaxy (LRG) pictured here has its gravity distorting light from a more distant blue galaxy. Most often, such a distortion of light leads to the appearance of two images of a distant galaxy, but in the case of a very precise superposition of the galaxy and the gravitational lens, the images merge into a horseshoe - an almost closed ring. This effect was predicted by Albert Einstein 70 years ago.
12. Star V838 Mon
For unknown reasons, in January 2002, the outer envelope of the star V838 Mon suddenly expanded, making it the brightest star in the entire Milky Way. Then she became weak again, also suddenly. Astronomers have never seen a stellar flare like this before.
13. Birth of planets
How are planets formed? To try to figure this out, the Hubble Space Telescope was tasked with taking a close look at one of the most interesting of all the nebulae in the sky, the Great Nebula of Orion. The Orion Nebula can be seen with the naked eye near the belt of the constellation Orion. The insets in this photo show numerous proplyds, many of which are stellar nurseries that likely host planetary systems in formation.
14. Star cluster R136
At the center of the star-forming region of 30 Doradus is a gigantic cluster of the largest, hottest, and most massive stars known to us. These stars form the R136 cluster in this visible-light image from the upgraded Hubble Space Telescope.
The brilliant NGC 253 is one of the brightest spiral galaxies we see, and at the same time one of the dustiest. Some call it the "Silver Dollar Galaxy" because it is shaped like that in a small telescope. Others simply refer to it as "The Sculptor Galaxy" because it lies within the southern constellation Sculptor. This dusty galaxy is 10 million light-years away.
16. Galaxy M83
M83 is one of the closest spiral galaxies to us. From a distance that separates us from 15 million light years, it looks completely ordinary. However, if we look closer at the center of M83 with the largest telescopes, this area appears to us as a turbulent and noisy place.
17. Ring Nebula
It really looks like a ring in the sky. Therefore, hundreds of years ago, astronomers named this nebula according to its unusual shape. The Ring Nebula also has the designations M57 and NGC 6720. The Ring Nebula is classified as a planetary nebula, these are gas clouds that stars similar to the Sun throw out at the end of their lives. Its size exceeds the diameter. This is one of the earliest images of Hubble.
18. Pillar and jets in the Carina Nebula
This cosmic column of gas and dust is two light years wide. The structure is located in one of the largest star-forming regions in our Galaxy, the Carina Nebula, which is visible in the southern sky and is 7,500 light-years away.
19. Center of globular cluster Omega Centauri
In the center of the globular cluster Omega Centauri, the stars are packed ten thousand times denser than the stars in the vicinity of the Sun. The image shows many faint yellow-white stars, smaller than our Sun, several orange red giants, as well as occasional blue stars. If suddenly two stars collide, then one more massive star can form, or they form a new binary system.
20. A giant cluster distorts and splits the image of the galaxy
Many of them are images of a single unusual, bead-like, blue ring galaxy that happens to be located behind a giant cluster of galaxies. According to recent research, in total, at least 330 images of individual distant galaxies can be found in the picture. This stunning photograph of the galaxy cluster CL0024+1654 was taken by the Space Telescope. Hubble in November 2004.
21. Trifid Nebula
The beautiful multicolored Trifid Nebula allows you to explore cosmic contrasts. Also known as M20, it lies some 5,000 light-years away in the nebula-rich constellation of Sagittarius. The size of the nebula is about 40 light years.
22. Centaurus A
A fantastic bunch of young blue star clusters, giant glowing gas clouds and dark dust lanes surround the central region of the active galaxy Centaurus A. Centaurus A is close to Earth, at a distance of 10 million light years
23. Nebula Butterfly
Bright clusters and nebulae in planet Earth's night sky are often named after flowers or insects, and NGC 6302 is no exception. The central star of this planetary nebula is exceptionally hot, with a surface temperature of around 250,000 degrees Celsius.
24. Supernova
An image of a supernova that exploded in 1994 on the outskirts of a spiral galaxy.
25. Two colliding galaxies with merged spiral arms
This remarkable cosmic portrait shows two colliding galaxies with merging spiral arms. Above and to the left of the large spiral galaxy of the NGC 6050 pair, a third galaxy can be seen, which is also likely to be involved in the interaction. All of these galaxies are about 450 million light-years away in the Hercules cluster of galaxies. At this distance, the image spans over 150,000 light-years. And although this view seems quite unusual, scientists now know that collisions and subsequent mergers of galaxies are not uncommon.
26. Spiral galaxy NGC 3521
Spiral galaxy NGC 3521 lies just 35 million light-years away towards the constellation Leo. The galaxy, which spans 50,000 light-years, has features such as ragged, irregular spiral arms adorned with dust, pinkish star-forming regions, and clusters of young, bluish stars.
27. Jet structure details
Although this unusual outlier was first seen in the early twentieth century, its origin is still a matter of debate. The picture above, taken in 1998 by the Hubble Space Telescope, clearly shows details of the jet's structure. The most popular hypothesis suggests that the source of the ejection was heated gas orbiting a massive black hole at the center of the galaxy.
28. Sombrero Galaxy
The appearance of the M104 galaxy resembles a hat, which is why it was called the Sombrero galaxy. The image shows distinct dark dust lanes and a bright halo of stars and globular clusters. The reasons why the Sombrero Galaxy looks like a hat are an unusually large central stellar bulge and dense dark lanes of dust located in the disk of the galaxy, which we see almost edge-on.
29. M17 close-up view
Shaped by stellar winds and radiation, these fantastic wave-like formations are found in the M17 Nebula (Omega Nebula) and are part of a star forming region. The Omega Nebula lies in the nebula-rich constellation of Sagittarius and is 5,500 light-years away. Ragged clumps of dense and cold gas and dust are illuminated by the radiation of the stars in the image at the top right, in the future they can become sites of star formation.
30. Nebula IRAS 05437+2502
What illuminates the nebula IRAS 05437+2502? So far, there is no definitive answer. Particularly enigmatic is the bright, inverted V-shaped arc that delineates the upper edge of mountain-like interstellar dust clouds near the center of the image. All in all, this ghostly nebula contains a small star-forming region filled with dark dust. It was first seen in infrared images taken by the IRAS satellite in 1983. Shown here is a wonderful, recently published image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Although it shows a lot of new details, the reason for the appearance of a bright, clear arc could not be established.
The Hubble Space Telescope was launched on April 24, 1990 and since then has been continuously documenting every cosmic event it can get its hands on. His mind-blowing images are reminiscent of exquisite paintings by surrealist artists, but all of these are completely real, physical sign phenomena taking place around our planet.
But like all of us, the great telescope gets old. Only a few years remain before NASA releases Hubble to drift towards fiery death in Earth's atmosphere: a fitting end for a true warrior of knowledge. We decided to collect some of the best telescope images that will always remind humanity how big the world around them is.
galactic rose
The telescope took this picture on the day of its own “coming of age”: Hubble turned exactly 21 years old. The unique object is two galaxies in the constellation Andromeda passing through each other.
triple star
To some, it may seem that in front of him is an old cover of a video cassette with budget science fiction. However, this is a very real Hubble image, capturing the open star cluster Pismis 24.
Black hole dance
Most likely (astronomers themselves are not sure here), the telescope managed to capture the rarest moment of the merger of black holes. The visible jets are particles that stretch for an incredible distance of several thousand light years.
Restless Sagittarius
The Lagoon Nebula attracts astronomers with huge cosmic storms that rage here all the time. This region is filled with intense winds from hot stars: old ones die and new ones immediately come in their place.
supernova
Since the 1800s, astronomers with much less powerful telescopes have observed flares occurring in the Eta Carinae system. In early 2015, scientists concluded that these flashes are so-called "false supernovae": they appear like ordinary supernovae, but do not destroy the star.
divine trace
A relatively recent image taken by the telescope in March of this year. Hubble captured the star IRAS 12196-6300, located at an incredible distance of 2300 light years from Earth.
Pillars of Creation
Three deadly cold pillars of gas clouds surround the star clusters in the Eagle Nebula. This is one of the most famous images of the telescope, dubbed the Pillars of Creation.
sky fireworks
Inside the image, you can see many young stars gathered in a hazy haze. space dust. Columns consisting of dense gas become incubators where new cosmic life is born.
NGC 3521
This flocculent spiral galaxy looks fluffy in the picture due to its stars that shine through dusty clouds. Although the image appears incredibly clear, the galaxy is actually 40 million light-years away from Earth.
DI Cha star system
The unique bright spot in the center consists of two stars shining through dust rings. The system is notable for the presence of two pairs of double stars, and in addition, it is here that the so-called Chameleon Complex is located - the region where entire galaxies of new stars are born.
In early April, Taschen publishing house will put up for sale a new book with a collection of the most stunning images of deep space photographed with a telescope Hubble. It has been 25 years since the telescope was launched into orbit, and it still continues to inform us about what our universe looks like, in all its incredible beauty.
Barnard 33, or the Horsehead Nebula, is a dark nebula in the constellation Orion
Position: 05h 40m, –02°, 27", distance from Earth: 1,600 ly; instrument/year: WFC3/IR, 2012.
M83, or the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy, is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Hydra
Position: 13h 37m, –29°, 51", distance from Earth: 15,000,000 ly, instrument/year: WFC3/UVIS, 2009–2012.
Position: 18h 18m, –13°, 49", distance from Earth: 6,500 ly, instrument/year: WFC3/IR, 2014.
The book is called Expanding universe("The Expanding Universe") and timed to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the Hubble launch. The Hubble photographs published in this book are not just breathtaking images, they are also an opportunity to learn more about space exploration. The book includes an essay by a photo critic, an interview with a specialist who explains exactly how these images are created, as well as two stories from astronauts about the role this unique telescope plays in space exploration.
RS Puppis is a variable star in the constellation Puppis
Position: 08h 13m, –34°, 34", distance from Earth: 6,500 ly, instrument/year: ACS/WFC, 2010.
M82, or the Cigar Galaxy, is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major
Position: 09h 55m, +69° 40", distance from Earth: 12,000,000 ly, instrument/year: ACS/WFC, 2006.
M16, or the Eagle Nebula, is a young open star cluster in the constellation Serpens
Position: 18h 18m, –13°, 49", distance from Earth: 6,500 ly, instrument/year: WFC3/UVIS, 2014.
Due to the fact that the telescope is in space, it can detect radiation in the infrared range, which is completely impossible to do from the surface of the Earth. Therefore, the resolution of Hubble is 7-10 times greater than that of a similar telescope located on the surface of our planet. So, for example, among other things, scientists first obtained maps of the surface of Pluto, learned additional data about planets outside solar system, they managed to make significant progress in the study of such mysterious black holes in the centers of galaxies, and also, which seems quite incredible, they were able to formulate a modern cosmological model and find out a more accurate age of the Universe (13.7 billion years).
Jupiter and its moon Ganymede
Sharpless 2-106, or the Snow Angel Nebula in the constellation Cygnus
Position: 20h 27m, +37°, 22", distance from Earth: 2,000 ly, instrument/year: Subaru, Telescope, 1999; WFC3/UVIS, WFC3/IR, 2011.
M16, or the Eagle Nebula, is a young open star cluster in the constellation Serpens
Position: 18h 18m, –13°, 49", distance from Earth: 6,500 ly, instrument/year: ACS/WFC, 2004.
HCG 92, or Stephen's Quintet, is a group of five galaxies in the constellation Pegasus.
Position: 22h 35m, +33°, 57", distance from Earth: 290,000,000 light years, instrument/year: WFC3/UVIS, 2009.
M81, NGC 3031, or the Bode Galaxy, is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major
