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Jupiter and Venus over Stonehenge😍✨

📸 Stonehenge Dronescapes
December 16, 2024 at 12:34 PM
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Meteor with Andromeda Galaxy
A bright meteor burned up in the atmosphere while capturing Andromeda Galaxy. Credit:NASA
December 15, 2024 at 2:30 PM
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Keyhole Nebula|NASA|
NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) detected the magnetic field streamlines shown over this image of the Keyhole Nebula, part of the larger Carina Nebula, captued by the European Southern Observatory 3.6-metre telescope on La Silla. Credit: NASA, the SOFIA science team, Y. Seo; ESO
December 14, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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The yellow structure depicted is the Laniakea Supercluster.|NASA|
a vast cosmic region that houses approximately 100,000 galaxies. The red dot in the image represents our home, the Milky Way, which boasts around 300 billion stars, including our very own Sun.
December 14, 2024 at 1:38 AM
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Saturn captured by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft
December 14, 2024 at 3:10 PM
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Flaming Star Nebula by Davide De Martin.
Rippling dust and gas lanes give the Flaming Star Nebula its name. The red and blue colors of the nebula are present in different regions and are created by different processes. The bright star AE Aurigae is so hot it is blue, emitting light so energetic it knocks electrons away from surrounding gas. When a proton recaptures an electron, red light is frequently emitted. The blue region's color is a mix of this red light and blue light emitted by AE Aurigae but reflected to us by surrounding dust. The two regions are referred to as emission nebula and reflection nebula, respectively. The Flaming Star Nebula, officially known as IC 405, lies about 1500 light years distant, spans about 5 light years, and is visible with a small telescope toward the constellation of Auriga. One and a half degree East from the Flaming Star Nebula is located IC 410, a region of faint nebulosity surrounding the open star cluster NGC 1893. The cluster itself is small and located just below center, underneath the central dust region of the nebula. This nebula contains complex wisps of gas and is a beautiful target for astrophotography. (Text adapted from Astronomy Picture of the Day). This image is a composite from black and white images taken with the Palomar Observatory's 48-inch (1.2-meter) Samuel Oschin Telescope as a part of the second National Geographic Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS II). The images were recorded on two glass photographic plates - one sensitive to red light and the other to blue and later they were digitized. Credit: Caltech, Palomar Observatory, Digitized Sky Survey. In order to produce the color image seen here, I worked with a total of 56 different frames, 28 for each color band, coming from 4 different plates taken between 1988 and 1996. Original file is 11,144x9,801 pixels with a resolution of about 1 arcsec per pixel. The image show an area of sky large 3.1ø x 2.7ø (for comparison, the full-Moon is about 0.5ø in diameter). This fits liberator image is not…
December 13, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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A new photo of the Sombrero galaxy from NASAWebb
December 14, 2024 at 12:47 PM
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NASA has now confirmed the existence of 5,602 exoplanets in 4,166 different planetary systems.
December 14, 2024 at 2:25 PM
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Cone Nebula (NGC 2264) by nasa
Resembling a nightmarish beast rearing its head from a crimson sea, this monstrous object is actually an innocuous pillar of gas and dust. Called the Cone Nebula (NGC 2264) - so named because, in ground-based images, it has a conical shape - this giant pillar resides in a turbulent star-forming region. This picture, taken by the newly installed Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows the upper 2.5 light-years of the nebula, a height that equals 23 million roundtrips to the Moon. The entire nebula is 7 light-years long. The Cone Nebula resides 2,500 light-years away in the constellation Monoceros. Radiation from hot, young stars [located beyond the top of the image] has slowly eroded the nebula over millions of years. Ultraviolet light heats the edges of the dark cloud, releasing gas into the relatively empty region of surrounding space. There, additional ultraviolet radiation causes the hydrogen gas to glow, which produces the red halo of light seen around the pillar. A similar process occurs on a much smaller scale to gas surrounding a single star, forming the bow-shaped arc seen near the upper left side of the Cone. This arc, seen previously with the Hubble telescope, is 65 times larger than the diameter of our solar system. The blue-white light from surrounding stars is reflected by dust. Background stars can be seen peeking through the evaporating tendrils of gas, while the turbulent base is pockmarked with stars reddened by dust. Over time, only the densest regions of the Cone will be left. Inside these regions, stars and planets may form. The Cone Nebula is a cousin of the M16 pillars, which the Hubble telescope imaged in 1995. Monstrous pillars of cold gas, like the Cone and M16, are common in large regions of star birth. Astronomers believe that these pillars are incubators for developing stars. Credits NASA, H. Ford (JHU), G. Illingworth (UCSC/LO), M.Clampin (STScI), G. Hartig (STScI), the ACS Science Team,
December 10, 2024 at 2:44 PM
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Comet, Aldebaran and Mars over stonehenge Uk.
December 8, 2024 at 12:52 PM
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“Mystic Mountain,” this is a region of the much more extensive Carina Nebula.
Credit: NASA, ESA,Hubble
Stars form in large clouds of gas and dust called nebulae that scatter the visible wavelengths of light our eyes can see. The longer wavelengths of infrared light can pass through the cloud relatively undisturbed. Hubble’s near-infrared capabilities and high resolving power make it an important tool in the study of how stars form. Dubbed “Mystic Mountain,” this is a region of the much more extensive Carina Nebula. In it, towers of cool hydrogen gas laced with dust are seen to rise along the nebula’s wall. At the top, a three-light-year-tall pillar of gas and dust is being eaten away by the brilliant light and winds from nearby stars. The pillar is also being pushed apart from within, as infant stars buried inside it fire off jets of gas that can be seen streaming left and right from the tips of the peaks. NASA, ESA, and M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team (STScI)
December 8, 2024 at 2:24 PM
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Hubble snaps NGC 5189

Credit:NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope celebrates the holiday season with a striking image of the planetary nebula NGC 5189. The intricate structure of the stellar eruption looks like a giant and brightly coloured ribbon in space.
December 6, 2024 at 1:00 PM
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Beautiful Moon Capture.
December 5, 2024 at 4:24 PM
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