BlogHide Resteemsdspace (46)in space • 7 years agoNGC 3603Thousands of sparkling young stars are nestled within the giant nebula NGC 3603. This stellar "jewel box" is one of the most massive young star clusters in the Milky Way Galaxy. NGC 3603 is a…dspace (46)in space • 7 years agoNGC 2841Hubble reveals a majestic disk of stars and dust lanes in this view of the spiral galaxy NGC 2841. A bright cusp of starlight marks the galaxy's center. Spiraling outward are dust lanes silhouetted…dspace (46)in space • 7 years agoLH 95 in the Large Magellanic CloudSwirls of gas and dust reside in this ethereal-looking region of star formation. This majestic view, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), reveals a region where low-mass, infant stars and…dspace (46)in steepshot • 7 years agoSpiral Galaxies CollideCreating tides of matter, sheets of shocked gas, lanes of dark dust, bursts of star formation, and streams of cast-away stars, spiral galaxies NGC 2207 and IC 2163 will slowly pull each other apart.…dspace (46)in steepshot • 7 years agoCartwheel GalaxyThe object was first spotted on wide-field images from the U.K. Schmidt telescope and then studied in detail using the Anglo-Australian Telescope. Lying about 500 million light-years away in the…dspace (46)in dspace • 7 years agoHorsehead NebulaThe Horsehead Nebula is a dark nebula in the constellation Orion. The nebula is located just to the south of the star Alnitak, which is farthest east on Orion's Belt, and is part of the much larger…dspace (46)in dspace • 7 years agoThe Twin Jet NebulaThe Twin Jet Nebula, also known as Minkowski 2-9 (M2-9), Minkowski’s Butterfly or the Wings of a Butterfly Nebula, is a bipolar planetary nebula located in the constellation Ophiuchus. The nebula…dspace (46)in dspace • 7 years agoV838 MonocerotisVariable star V838 Monocerotis lies near the edge of our Milky Way Galaxy, about 20,000 light-years from the Sun. Still, ever since a sudden outburst was detected in January 2002, this enigmatic…dspace (46)in dspace • 7 years agoSombrero GalaxyThe Sombrero Galaxy (also known as Messier Object 104, M104 or NGC 4594) is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo located 9.55 Mpc (31,100,000 ly)[2] from Earth. The galaxy has a diameter…dspace (46)in dspace • 7 years agoSupernovaTHIS USED TO BE A STAR! It's the remnants of a SUPERNOVA. Supernovas happen when massive stars run out of fuel and collapse under their own weight. The core collapses and sends a shock wave out…dspace (46)in dspace • 7 years agoEarth CoreThe surface of the Sun is 10,000 degrees, and the Earth's core is 10,800-12,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Here's why the core is so hot : Heat from when the planet formed which hasn't been lost…dspace (46)in photo • 7 years agoWe're Made of Star StuffWe are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. We are in the universe and the universe is in us. -Neil Tyson. We would not exist…dspace (46)in dspace • 7 years agoStar CollisionAstronomers predict that two stars in the Cygnus constellation will collide and create a rare Red Nova Explosion so bright in the sky it will be visible to the naked eye! The two stars set to…dspace (46)in dspace • 7 years ago7 Earth - Like PlanetsThis is a huge step toward finding biological signs of alien life. This many planets orbiting the same star. The system is called Trappist-1 and it's 40 light years away or 235 trillion miles. 3 of…dspace (46)in dspace • 7 years agoA Leap SecondA leap second have been added to 2017 to compensate for a slowdown in Earths rotation. Even though it's a small difference in time, (taking 1,000 years to cause a 1 hour difference), if it wasn't…dspace (46)in dspace • 7 years agoGenerations of StarsGenerations of stars can be seen in this infrared portrait from Spitzer Space Telescope. In this wispy star-forming region, called W5, the oldest stars can be seen as blue dots in the centers of the…dspace (46)in dspace • 7 years agoGalaxies ClusterThis view of a massive cluster of galaxies unveils a very cluttered-looking universe filled with galaxies near and far. Some are distorted like a funhouse mirror through a "space warp" phenomenon…dspace (46)in space • 7 years agoMap of The Known UniverseAn artist made this map, which is not to scale, but based on logarithmic maps of the universe put together by Princeton University researchers, as well as images from NASA. Of course we're not the…
