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A new picture of NGC 3147 from Hubble, comprised of data collected very recently, some of which was taken just a couple of weeks ago. This is in near-infrared and visible light, so the dust lanes look extra reddish. There's a certain transparency to the disk showing reddish background galaxies that I quite like, thanks to the near-infrared wavelengths in the red channel. It's one of those galaxies that fits nicely within the Hubble footprint, so this is a nearly complete picture of the brighter parts of the whole object.
I enhanced the saturation and clarity of the whole galaxy, and the center dust lanes have been greatly sharpened. The small hole left where the chip gaps intersected near the nucleus was filled with data cloned 180° from the other side of the nucleus.
This image was creating using data from the Proposal That Just Keeps Giving.
The Hubble Constant to 1%: Physics beyond LambdaCDM
Red: WFC3/IR F160W
Green: WFC3/UVIS F814W
Blue: WFC3/UVIS F555W
North is NOT up. It is 42.64° clockwise from up.
Sweeping spiral arms extend from NGC 4536, littered with bright blue clusters of star formation and red clumps of hydrogen gas shining among dark lanes of dust. The galaxy’s shape may seem a little unusual, and that’s because it’s what’s known as an “intermediate galaxy”: not quite a barred spiral, but not exactly an unbarred spiral, either - a hybrid of the two.
NGC 4536 is also a starburst galaxy, in which star formation is happening at a tremendous rate that uses up the gas in the galaxy relatively quickly, by galactic standards. Starburst galaxies can happen due to gravitational interactions with other galaxies or - as seems to be the case for NGC 4536 - when gas is packed into a small region. The bar-like structure of NGC 4536 may be driving gas inwards toward the nucleus, giving rise to a crescendo of star formation in a ring around the nucleus. Starburst galaxies birth lots of hot blue stars that burn fast and die quickly in explosions that unleash intense ultraviolet light (visible in blue), turning their surroundings into glowing clouds of ionized hydrogen, called HII regions (visible in red).
NGC 4536 is approximately 50 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. It was discovered in 1784 by astronomer William Herschel. Hubble took this image of NGC 4536 as part of a project to study galactic environments to understand connections between young stars and cold gas, particularly star clusters and molecular clouds, throughout the local universe.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Lee (Space Telescope Science Institute); Processing: Gladys Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America)
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NASA image release September 25, 2012
Like photographers assembling a portfolio of best shots, astronomers have assembled a new, improved portrait of mankind's deepest-ever view of the universe.
Called the eXtreme Deep Field, or XDF, the photo was assembled by combining 10 years of NASA Hubble Space Telescope photographs taken of a patch of sky at the center of the original Hubble Ultra Deep Field. The XDF is a small fraction of the angular diameter of the full moon.
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field is an image of a small area of space in the constellation Fornax, created using Hubble Space Telescope data from 2003 and 2004. By collecting faint light over many hours of observation, it revealed thousands of galaxies, both nearby and very distant, making it the deepest image of the universe ever taken at that time.
The new full-color XDF image is even more sensitive, and contains about 5,500 galaxies even within its smaller field of view. The faintest galaxies are one ten-billionth the brightness of what the human eye can see.
To read more go to:http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/xdf.html
Credit: NASA; ESA; G. Illingworth, D. Magee, and P. Oesch, University of California, Santa Cruz; R. Bouwens, Leiden University; and the HUDF09 Team
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Proposal IDs: 11599, 11122
hst_11599_15_wfc3_uvis_f814w_sci
hst_11599_15_wfc3_uvis_f555w_sci
hst_11599_15_wfc3_uvis_f438w_sci
hst_11122_05_wfpc2_f658n_wf_sci
hst_11122_05_wfpc2_f656n_wf_sci
hst_11122_05_wfpc2_f502n_wf_sci
NASA/ESA/Hubble/STScI/Kevin M. Gill
Data from the Hubble space telescope, processed in PixInsight.
Based on observations made with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, and obtained from the Hubble Legacy Archive, which is a collaboration between the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI/NASA), the Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF/ESA) and the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre (CADC/NRC/CSA).
The bipolar star-forming region, called Sharpless 2-106, looks like a soaring, celestial snow angel. The outstretched “wings” of the nebula record the contrasting imprint of heat and motion against the backdrop of a colder medium. Twin lobes of super-hot gas, glowing blue in this image, stretch outward from the central star. This hot gas creates the “wings” of our angel. A ring of dust and gas orbiting the star acts like a belt, cinching the expanding nebula into an “hourglass” shape.
To read more about this image go to: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/snow-angel.html
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
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Data from the PHATTER survey, Primary Investigator: Julianne Dalcanton.
A color mosaic showing the Triangulum Galaxy. It looks very noisy, but the noise is actually individual stars being resolved. There is a warm yellow core, and cool cyan periphery. The spiral is not strongly defined, but still discernible. Splotches of reddish dust are scattered about. Blue clouds of concentrated star formation are seen mainly in the arms. Many, many clusters of stars and globular clusters speckle the image. A few bright foreground stars from our Milky Way are intruding upon the image, but not so many that they are very distracting. At the edge are some zig zagging boundaries where the edge of the mosaic is. Areas which were empty have been filled with a random noise texture that matches somewhat with the galaxy to greatly reduce visual distraction.
I started working on this years ago, but got stuck at some point just not feeling enough momentum to want to clean up all of the artifacts. Finally got through that last week and finished it up. There's a maximum image size of 200MB at Flickr, so this is a 40% resize of the mosaic.
I assembled this mosaic manually, but you can actually download already-assembled mosaic files here from the HLSP page:
archive.stsci.edu/hlsp/phatter
A link to a gigapan is available.
Processing note: Around the edges are places where the image is only two filters rather than all four. Where near-infrared F160W had missing data, it was replaced by F814W data. I applied a Gaussian blur to make it more closely resemble the F160W data. Similarly, where F336W data were missing, I filled those areas with F475W. For that I simply adjusted the curves and added some noise to make the blending nicer. Yes, I actually "degraded" the data in both cases to make it look nicer. In my defense that's way better than faking it, or cutting it off completely.
Red: WFC3/IR F160W
Yellow: ACS/WFC F814W
Cyan: ACS/WFC F475W
Blue: WFC3/UVIS F336W
North is about 75.15° counter-clockwise from up.
Image of the Bubble nebula I took back in July of this year re-worked using all the data set. Originally left out the SII data so this time round I added it using SII,Ha,OIII combination. Equipment used was my Esprit 150ED Apo,Atik 314L and Baader narrowband filters. captured 6x600sec in Ha and 7x600sec for both SII and OIII,each set stacked in Deepskystacker and colour combined in Maxim DL4,processed in Startools and Photoshop CS2.
Image was taken July 15th 2018
Recent Lightroom edit of a shot from my 2013 Rt 66 Road Trip. Marshfield, MO Quarter Scale Model of Hubble Telescope. The Hubble Telescope was named in honor of Edwin Powell Hubble, an astronomer from Marshfield.
New images of the Phantom Galaxy, M74, showcase the power of space observatories working together in multiple wavelengths. On the left, the Hubble Space Telescope’s view of the galaxy ranges from the older, redder stars towards the centre, to younger and bluer stars in its spiral arms, to the most active stellar formation in the red bubbles of H II regions.
On the right, the James Webb Space Telescope’s image is strikingly different, instead highlighting the masses of gas and dust within the galaxy’s arms, and the dense cluster of stars at its core. The combined image in the centre merges these two for a truly unique look at this “grand design” spiral galaxy. Scientists combine data from telescopes operating across the electromagnetic spectrum to truly understand astronomical objects. In this way, data from Hubble and Webb compliment each other to provide a comprehensive view of the spectacular M74 galaxy.
Read more: esawebb.org/images/potm2208c/
Image credits: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-JWST Team.
Acknowledgement: J. Schmidt
Image description: This image is divided evenly into 3 different views of the same region in the Phantom Galaxy. At left is an optical view taken by Hubble. Arms carved of brown filaments spiral out from a bright galactic core. The arms have pops of pink, which are star-forming regions, and there are blue stars throughout. The middle view contained combined Webb and Hubble data. Lacy red filaments spiraling out of the center of the galaxy are overlaid over a black field speckled with tiny blue stars. The red filaments contain pops of bright pink, which are star-forming regions. Lighter oranges in the red dust mean that dust is hotter. Heavier older stars closer to the center of the galaxy are cyan and green, and contribute to a greenish glow at the core. At right is a mid-infrared image from Webb. Delicate gray filaments spiral outwards from the center. These arms are traced by blue and bursts of pink, which are star-forming regions. A cluster of young stars glow blue at the very heart of the galaxy.
A wave eases over the beach, dragging itself over some embedded locals.
Inspired by the close-up images of Jupiter as taken by NASA.
Hand-held. AF.
Take a break at Pelcomb Portraits.
These three images are of the central region of the magnificent spiral galaxy M100, taken with three generations of the Hubble Space Telescope cameras that were sequentially swapped out aboard the telescope, and document the consistently improving capability of the observatory.
The image on the left was taken with the Wide Field/Planetary Camera 1 in 1993. The photo is blurry due to a manufacturing flaw (called spherical aberration) in Hubble's primary mirror. Celestial images could not be brought into a single focus. [Credit: NASA, ESA, and Judy Schmidt]
The middle image was taken in late 1993 with Wide Field/Planetary Camera 2 that was installed during the Dec. 2-13 space shuttle servicing mission (SM1, STS-61). The camera contained corrective optics to compensate for the mirror flaw, and so the galaxy snapped into sharp focus when photographed. [Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. DePasquale (STScI)]
The image on the right was taken with a newer instrument, Wide Field Camera 3, that was installed on Hubble during the space shuttle Servicing Mission 4 in May 2009. [Credit: NASA, ESA, and Judy Schmidt]
In celebration of the 25th anniversary of NASA's first space servicing mission to Hubble, these comparison photos of one of the telescope's first targets are being released today.
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has given astronomers their best look yet at an interstellar visitor — comet 2I/Borisov — whose speed and trajectory indicate it has come from beyond our solar system.
This Hubble image, taken on Oct. 12, 2019, is the sharpest view of the comet to date. Hubble reveals a central concentration of dust around the nucleus (which is too small to be seen by Hubble).
Comet 2I/Borisov is only the second such interstellar object known to have passed through the solar system. In 2017, the first identified interstellar visitor, an object officially named 'Oumuamua, swung within 24 million miles of the Sun before racing out of the solar system.
Credit: NASA, ESA and J. DePasquale (STScI)
View of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) after its release from the STS-103 orbiter Discovery's payload bay including: View of the HST in orbit over an Earth limb with its High Gain Antenna extended and aperature door open.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: sts103-374-026
Date: December 25, 1999
Data taken for proposal ID 10870
Red: f814w
Green: (R+B)/2
Blue: f606w
Rings: f475w
NASA/Hubble Team/Mark R. Showalter/Kevin M. Gill
Hubble Legacy Data - Wide Field Camera 3 data in R/G and UV mapped to R/G and B by me and generally tidied up in PixInsight and PhotoShop.
Two colliding spiral galaxies - showing extreme distortion due to gravitational tides. The bright blue regions are "star burst" regions where intense star formation is occurring as gravitational tides compress gas clouds and produce massive, hot blue stars.
This is what the future may hold for us when the Milky Way collides with Andromeda in a few billion years.
This is NGC 2623 in the New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars (abbreviated as NGC) - a catalogue of deep-sky objects compiled by John Louis Emil Dreyer in 1888.
Dreyer didnt appreciate that these are 2 colliding objects so only one ID was given, Its also Arp 243 in Milton Arp's catalogue of peculiar or colliding galaxies which is probably more appropriate.
Image credit -NASA/ESA/Hubble Team/John Purvis
Red: hst_9735_32_acs_wfc_f814w_sci
Green: hst_9735_32_acs_wfc_f555w_sci
Blue: hst_9735_32_acs_wfc_f435w_sci
The Rosette Nebula
Slight crop from full frame
Orion Optics AG12 F3.8
FLI ProLine 16803 CCD & CFW-5-7 + Atlas Focuser
Ha OIII SII = 180 120 95 min RGB (stars only) = 20 12 12min (all bin 1X1) Astronomik filters
-30C chip temp, darks and flats (Astronomik Aurora Light Panel used for flats)
Focal length 1180mm
Image scale 1.57"/pix
Guide Camera: Starlightxpress SXVH9
See the full image set here: www.pbase.com/strongmanmike2002/gallery/rosette_in_hubble...
A grizzled veteran of the Federation, the once venerated Commander Hubble has become a bad-tempered hermit, isolated within a forgotten outpost on a distant moon. He fondly remembers the triumphant campaigns of his heyday, and secretly wishes to be part of something significant once again. He is constantly annoyed by the antics of Crater, the survey rover who is the only other inhabitant of this lonely moon.
Narrow Band Hubble Palette
I knew I can pull more details from the data I get it at the Texas Star Party, the image was created by mapping the SII, Ha and OIII data respectively to the R, G and B channels. The resulting RGB image was stretched to show the faint detail and gives a wonderful display of the extent of hydrogen, in the area close to the Galactic Cluster NGC6871, the emission nebula LBN179, LBN182 and the dark nebula Swordfish B147.
By manipulating the colors, we can show the SII and OIII areas. This creates a much more interesting image and we can also do a bit of science.
5.25 Hours of integration time
Telescope FSQ106
Camera SBIG 10-XME
Mount MyT
Filters Ha + OIII + SII
May 2018
Last week researchers from around the world gathered at the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome for the Science with the Hubble Space Telescope IV conference. The event celebrated the history of Hubble’s extraordinary achievements, and looked to the future at what might yet be achieved and how the James Webb Space Telescope will build on our knowledge of the Universe. As part of this celebration artist Tim Otto Roth revealed a new artwork, Heaven’s Carousel, inspired by Hubble’s work on the accelerating expansion of the Universe.
This installation, named Heaven’s Carousel, links together the fields of art, music and astronomy. Conceptualised and designed by German artist and composer Tim Otto Roth, the work is inspired by novel work on the accelerating expansion of the Universe by Nobel laureate Adam Riess (STScl), Greek cosmology and Renaissance astronomers.
Read more here: www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1407/
Credit: NASA, ESA, and Pam Jeffries (STScI)
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This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features NGC 1672, a barred spiral galaxy located 49 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Dorado. This galaxy is a multi-talented light show, showing off an impressive array of different celestial lights. Like any spiral galaxy, shining stars fill its disk, giving the galaxy a beautiful glow. Along its two large arms, bubbles of hydrogen gas shine in a striking red light fueled by radiation from infant stars shrouded within. Near the galaxy’s center are some particularly spectacular stars embedded within a ring of hot gas. These newly formed and extremely hot stars emit powerful X-rays. Closer in, at the galaxy’s very center, sits an even brighter source of X-rays, an active galactic nucleus. This X-ray powerhouse makes NGC 1672 a Seyfert galaxy. It forms as a result of heated matter swirling in the accretion disk around NGC 1672’s supermassive black hole.
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, O. Fox, L. Jenkins, S. Van Dyk, A. Filippenko, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team, D. de Martin (ESA/Hubble), M. Zamani (ESA/Hubble)
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This image of an archetypal spiral galaxy was captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
More information: www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw2008a/
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Riess et al.
This is my interpretation of Hubble's famous "Pillars of Creation (M16)". Mostly processed under StarTools 1.5 and tweaked with Darktable. Wonderful data!
It is available at hla.stsci.edu/hlaview.html#Inventory|filterText%3D%24filt...
The data is on the 7th row.
Taken Under the "Wing" of the Small Magellanic Cloud
The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors. Even though it is a small or so-called dwarf galaxy, the SMC is so bright that it is visible to the unaided eye from the Southern Hemisphere and near the equator. Many navigators, including Ferdinand Magellan who lends his name to the SMC, used it to help find their way across the oceans.
Modern astronomers are also interested in studying the SMC (and its cousin, the Large Magellanic Cloud), but for very different reasons. Because the SMC is so close and bright, it offers an opportunity to study phenomena that are difficult to examine in more distant galaxies.
New Chandra data of the SMC have provided one such discovery: the first detection of X-ray emission from young stars, with masses similar to our Sun, outside our Milky Way galaxy. The new Chandra observations of these low-mass stars were made of the region known as the "Wing" of the SMC. In this composite image of the Wing, the Chandra data are shown in purple, optical data from the Hubble Space Telescope are shown in red, green, and blue, and infrared data from the Spitzer Space Telescope are shown in red.
Astronomers call all elements heavier than hydrogen and helium – that is, with more than two protons in the atom's nucleus – "metals." The Wing is a region known to have fewer metals compared to most areas within the Milky Way. There are also relatively lower amounts of gas, dust, and stars in the Wing compared to the Milky Way.
Most star formation near the tip of the Wing is occurring in a small region known as NGC 602, which contains a collection of at least three star clusters. One of them, NGC 602a, is similar in age, mass, and size to the famous Orion Nebula Cluster.
Using Chandra, astronomers saw extended X-ray emission, from the two most densely populated regions in NGC 602a. The extended X-ray cloud likely comes from the population of young, low-mass stars in the cluster, which have previously been picked out by infrared and optical surveys using Spitzer and Hubble, respectively. This emission is not likely to be hot gas blown away by massive stars, because the low metal content of stars in NGC 602a implies that these stars should have weak winds.
The Chandra results imply that the young, metal-poor stars in NGC 602 produce X-rays in a matter similar to stars with much higher metal content found in the Orion cluster in our galaxy. The authors speculate that if the X-ray properties of young stars are similar in different environments, then other related properties – including the formation and evolution of disks where planets form – are also likely to be similar.
X-ray emission traces the magnetic activity of young stars and is related to how efficiently their magnetic dynamo operates. Magnetic dynamos generate magnetic fields in stars through a process involving the star's rotation speed and convection, the rising and falling of hot gas in the star's interior.
The combined X-ray, optical, and infrared data also revealed, for the first time outside our galaxy, objects representative of an even younger stage of evolution of a star. These so-called "young stellar objects" have ages of a few thousand years and are still embedded in the pillar of dust and gas from which stars form, as in the famous "Pillars of Creation" of the Eagle Nebula.
Credit: NASA, ESA, CXC and the University of Potsdam, JPL-Caltech, and STScI
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features IC 3476, a dwarf galaxy that lies about 54 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Coma Berenices. While this image does not look very dramatic – we might say it looks almost serene – the actual physical events taking place in IC 3476 are highly energetic. In fact, the little galaxy is undergoing a process called ram pressure stripping that is driving unusually high levels of star formation in regions of the galaxy.
The gas and dust that permeates space exerts pressure on a galaxy as it moves. This resistance, called ram pressure, can strip a galaxy of its star-forming gas and dust, reducing or even stopping the creation of new stars. However, ram pressure can also compress gas in other parts of the galaxy, which can boost star formation. This may be happening in IC 3476. The galaxy appears to have absolutely no star formation along its edges, which bear the brunt of the ram pressure stripping, but star formation rates deeper within the galaxy are noticeably above average.
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Sun
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M74 shines at its brightest in this combined optical/mid-infrared image, featuring data from both the Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope. With Hubble’s venerable Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and Webb’s powerful Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI) capturing a range of wavelengths, this new image has remarkable depth.
The red colors mark dust threaded through the arms of the galaxy, lighter oranges being areas of hotter dust. The young stars throughout the arms and the nuclear core are picked out in blue. Heavier, older stars towards the galaxy’s centre are shown in cyan and green, projecting a spooky glow from the core of the Phantom Galaxy. Bubbles of star formation are also visible in pink across the arms. Such a variety of galactic features is rare to see in a single image. Scientists combine data from telescopes operating across the electromagnetic spectrum to truly understand astronomical objects. In this way, data from Hubble and Webb compliment each other to provide a comprehensive view of the spectacular M74 galaxy.
Read more: esawebb.org/images/potm2208b/
Image credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-JWST Team; ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Chandar
Acknowledgement: J. Schmidt
Image description:
This image shows Webb near-infrared data combined with optical data from Hubble. Lacy red filaments spiraling out of the center of the galaxy are overlaid over a black field speckled with stars. The center of the galaxy glows in a pale color. The red filaments contain pops of bright pink, and some blue stars are visible in the background. The red color is dust, lighter oranges in the dust mean that dust is hotter. The young stars sprinkled through the arms and around the core of the galaxy are blue. Heavier older stars nearer the center of the galaxy are cyan and green and contribute to its glow. The pink pops of color are star forming regions.
Images by Clyde Foster and the Hubble Space Telescope
I have done a comparison of the new Hubble image with the closest I could get, with one of my better images of the apparition, albeit 10 days prior to the Hubble image, so cloud detail is not comparable.
(Editor's note: It is AMAZING how modern technology is letting amateurs compete with a billion dollar space telescope!)
Photoshop ontage created from two, copyright free images on Wikicommons:
Hubble 'Mystic Mountain': commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PhilcUK-1274438506.jpg
Van Gogh "Starry Night" (digitally enhanced by Rawpixel): commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vincent_van_Gogh%E2%80%99...
Walking along a freezing beach at Porth Cwyfan on Anglesey I suddenly noticed the amazing colours and shapes in the rocks at my feet. I would never normally think to photograph such a subject, but then I realised I should. And I have much admired Melanie Colliie's fine art shots of rocks on her local beaches. See www.flickr.com/photos/melaniecollie/with/32045409045/
Have a look at it in close-up.
I didn't have my tripod with me, and it was too cold to hang about, it was a lesson I must start to observe what is at my feet as well as what is on my horizon.
The brightly glowing plumes seen in this image are reminiscent of an underwater scene, with turquoise-tinted currents and nebulous strands reaching out into the surroundings.
However, this is no ocean. This image actually shows part of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a small nearby galaxy that orbits our galaxy, the Milky Way, and appears as a blurred blob in our skies. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has peeked many times into this galaxy, releasing stunning images of the whirling clouds of gas and sparkling stars (opo9944a, heic1301, potw1408a).
This image shows part of the Tarantula Nebula's outskirts. This famously beautiful nebula, located within the LMC, is a frequent target for Hubble (heic1206, heic1402).
In most images of the LMC the colour is completely different to that seen here. This is because, in this new image, a different set of filters was used. The customary R filter, which selects the red light, was replaced by a filter letting through the near-infrared light. In traditional images, the hydrogen gas appears pink because it shines most brightly in the red. Here however, other less prominent emission lines dominate in the blue and green filters.
This data is part of the Archival Pure Parallel Project (APPP), a project that gathered together and processed over 1000 images taken using Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2, obtained in parallel with other Hubble instruments. Much of the data in the project could be used to study a wide range of astronomical topics, including gravitational lensing and cosmic shear, exploring distant star-forming galaxies, supplementing observations in other wavelength ranges with optical data, and examining star populations from stellar heavyweights all the way down to solar-mass stars.
A version of this image was entered into the Hubble's Hidden Treasures image processing competition by contestant Josh Barrington.
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA
Equipo Principal: ZWO ASI 1600 mm-pro + SW Explorer 250pds + SW Coma Corrector 0.9x + EQ6-R-Pro + ZWO EAF + ZWO 7x2" EFW
Equipo guía: starguider 60/240 mm, ZWO ASI 120mm mini
*Gain 139, -25 º C, Ha 7nm 2" Optolong, 85x180"
*Gain 139, -25 º C, Oiii-CCD 6.5 nm 2" Optolong, 80x180"
*Gain 139, -25 º C, Sii-CCD 6.5 nm 2" Optolong, 80x180"
100 Darks
100 Flats por filtro
Polar Align: SharpCap 3.2
Adquisición: SGP 3.1
Procesado: Pixinsight 1.8.8, PS
IC 342 is a challenging cosmic target. Although it is bright, the galaxy sits near the equator of the Milky Way’s galactic disc, where the sky is thick with glowing cosmic gas, bright stars, and dark, obscuring dust. In order for astronomers to see the intricate spiral structure of IC 342, they must gaze through a large amount of material contained within our own galaxy — no mean feat! As a result IC 342 is relatively difficult to spot and image, giving rise to its intriguing nickname: the “Hidden Galaxy”.
More information: www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1727a/
Credit:
ESA/Hubble & NASA
The DEML316 system contains two shells, both with the characteristic signatures of supernova remnants.
The peanut-shaped nebula appears to be a single object (this image shows only a portion of the larger structure), but the latest research indicates that it is really comprised of two distinct gas and dust clouds formed by different types of supernova explosions.
Hubble Space Telescope (WFC3/UVIS)
Image credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA
Processing & copyright: Leo Shatz
Astronaut Steve Smith waves to the camera as he holds on to the handrail to which he is tethered on the Hubble Space Telescope during the STS-103 mission. His reflection can be seen beside him on the telescope surface.
Credit: NASA
Image Number: s103e5249
Date: December 22, 1999
By pushing NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to its limits, an international team of astronomers has shattered the cosmic distance record by measuring the farthest galaxy ever seen in the universe. This surprisingly bright infant galaxy, named GN-z11, is seen as it was 13.4 billion years in the past, just 400 million years after the Big Bang. GN-z11 is located in the direction of the constellation of Ursa Major.
Read more: go.nasa.gov/1oSqHad
Any way you slice it, the Cartwheel Galaxy is magnificent to behold. The top half of this image shows the galaxy as seen by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in visible light, while the lower half of this image shows the James Webb Space Telescope's infrared view. Hubble and Webb will continue to work together to provide complementary views of the universe.
Good news: more images from Webb are on their way! But first, scientists will need time to analyze data and make sure they understand what they’re seeing. Science is a collaborative process, and you may have seen some preliminary findings from Webb data already. Before NASA can publicize news results, we have to wait for findings to be peer-reviewed — meaning that scientists have checked each other’s work.
Where can you find Webb images? What’s Webb looking at right now? Our latest blog post has it all: go.nasa.gov/3d0aGOq
Image description:
A labeled image, divided horizontally, that shows a Hubble view and Webb view of the same target. Together, the split views show a large galaxy on the right and two much smaller spiral galaxies on the left, one above the other. The top half of the image is labeled as Hubble’s view, and features the upper half of the large galaxy and one of the small galaxies. The upper half of the large galaxy looks like a bright blue ring with wispy light blue shimmers in a pattern like wheel spokes. Near the right edge of the large galaxy is a bright yellow star with four spikes. On the left, the first of the small galaxies is a similar blue as the top half of the large galaxy. The lower half of the image is labeled as Webb’s view, and features the lower half of the large galaxy and the other small galaxy. The lower half of the large galaxy looks like a pink speckled wheel, with detailed pink plumes as wheel spokes and dusty blue in between each spoke. The second of the small galaxies on the left is bluish white. While both the Hubble and Webb views feature a black background, many more distant orange-red specks, or galaxies, can be seen in the lower half of the image.
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La galaxie spirale barrée NGC 7479 (Hubble) est située à 96 millions d'années-lumière de la Terre dans la constellation de Pégase (Pegasus). Les bras serrés de la galaxie spirale forment un S inversé en tournant dans le sens inverse des aiguilles d'une montre. Cependant, aux longueurs d'onde radio, cette galaxie, parfois surnommée la "Galaxie à hélice", tourne dans le sens inverse, avec un jet de rayonnement qui se courbe dans la direction opposée à celle des étoiles et de la poussière de ses bras.
Le jet radio de NGC 7479 a probablement été à l'origine de son étrange rotation inverse, suite à une fusion avec une autre galaxie. Sa formation d'étoiles est ravivée par les collisions galactiques, avec effectivement une activité de sursaut stellaire et de nombreuses étoiles jeunes et brillantes visibles dans les bras spiraux et le disque. Les trois étoiles les plus brillantes sont toutefois ici des étoiles du premier plan, se situant entre la galaxie et Hubble.
Cette image a été créée à partir d'images prises avec le canal grand champ de la caméra avancée de Hubble, à travers un filtre jaune (F555W, coloré en bleu) et combinées avec un filtre dans le proche infrarouge (F814W, coloré en rouge), le temps d'exposition total étant de 520 s par filtre et le champ de vision de 2,7 minutes d'arc, soit 0,045° (cf. ESA/Hubble et NASA).
Pour situer la galaxie spirale barrée NGC 7479 (Hubble) dans la constellation de Pégase (Pegasus) :
A truly spectacular image to process. It took a while to get the right data set but processing was easier than I had imagined. Dataset is available at Hubble Legacy Archive.
Need a new perspective?Sometimes, seeing clearly requires looking at things with a fresh set of eyes. When you’re able to peer through the dust, that’s when you can reveal even more stars. ✨
Download full-resolution images of the Carina Nebula, as seen by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and by Webb!
👉 Hubble: bit.ly/3OnC7id
👉 Webb: bit.ly/3OrP22G
Want posters and zoomable versions of Webb's first images? Find them here: bit.ly/3v9F2UQ
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Image of a portion of the Carina Nebula, vertically divided in half between Hubble's view on the left and Webb's view on the right. A "Hubble" label in small white text is to the right edge of the Hubble view, while a "Webb" label in the same font is to the right edge of the Webb view. Both the Hubble and Webb views feature a a blue “sky” dotted with stars and an orange-brown “mountain range” below it. Starting with the Hubble view, the blue portion is a more faded color and mixed with shades of green. Some pink points of starlight, each with 4 diffraction spikes, poke through the blue. The orange-brown portion is dusty, and the few stars that can be seen are only tiny dots of pinkish red. The mountainous area also features a prominent knob sticking out on the left side. In the Webb view, we see that Webb’s blue portion is much more rich, dark and vivid in color. Compared to Hubble, a multitude of stars in shades of light orange and blue are visible, including two giant six-pointed stars on the very right. The orange-brown portion is also dotted with stars galore, each with a set of 6 diffraction spikes. This is because Webb's infrared vision is able to cut through the curtain of dust, revealing many more stars in the landscape.
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NASA's Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes have teamed up to expose the chaos that baby stars are creating 1,500 light years away in a cosmic cloud called the Orion nebula.
This striking infrared and visible-light composite indicates that four monstrously massive stars at the center of the cloud may be the main culprits in the familiar Orion constellation. The stars are collectively called the "Trapezium." Their community can be identified as the yellow smudge near the center of the image.
Swirls of green in Hubble's ultraviolet and visible-light view reveal hydrogen and sulfur gas that have been heated and ionized by intense ultraviolet radiation from the Trapezium's stars. Meanwhile, Spitzer's infrared view exposes carbon-rich molecules called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the cloud. These organic molecules have been illuminated by the Trapezium's stars, and are shown in the composite as wisps of red and orange. On Earth, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons are found on burnt toast and in automobile exhaust.
Together, the telescopes expose the stars in Orion as a rainbow of dots sprinkled throughout the image. Orange-yellow dots revealed by Spitzer are actually infant stars deeply embedded in a cocoon of dust and gas. Hubble showed less embedded stars as specks of green, and foreground stars as blue spots.
Stellar winds from clusters of newborn stars scattered throughout the cloud etched all of the well-defined ridges and cavities in Orion. The large cavity near the right of the image was most likely carved by winds from the Trapezium's stars.
Located 1,500 light-years away from Earth, the Orion nebula is the brightest spot in the sword of the Orion, or the "Hunter" constellation. The cosmic cloud is also our closest massive star-formation factory, and astronomers believe it contains more than 1,000 young stars.
The Orion constellation is a familiar sight in the fall and winter night sky in the northern hemisphere. The nebula is invisible to the unaided eye, but can be resolved with binoculars or small telescopes.
This image is a false color composite where light detected at wavelengths of 0.43, 0.50, and 0.53 microns is blue. Light at wavelengths of 0.6, 0.65, and 0.91 microns is green. Light at 3.6 microns is orange, and 8.0 microns is red.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/STScI
[Note (30 July, 2007): Last week there was a Yahoo! News article that included a link to this photo. It shot my views up from about 1,000 views to over 14,000 views in one day!!!!]
The brilliant tapestry of young stars flaring to life resemble a glittering fireworks display in the 25th anniversary NASA Hubble Space Telescope image to commemorate a quarter century of exploring the solar system and beyond since its launch on April 24, 1990.
The sparkling centerpiece of Hubble's silver anniversary fireworks is a giant cluster of about 3,000 stars called Westerlund 2, named for Swedish astronomer Bengt Westerlund, who discovered the grouping in the 1960s. The cluster resides in a raucous stellar breeding ground known as Gum 29, located 20,000 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Carina.
Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), A. Nota (ESA/STScI), and the Westerlund 2 Science Team
Image Number: GSFC_20171208_Archive_e000743
Date: April 24, 2015
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured an image of an unusual edge-on galaxy, revealing remarkable details of its warped dusty disk and showing how colliding galaxies spawn the formation of new generations of stars.
The dust and spiral arms of normal spiral galaxies, like our own Milky Way, appear flat when viewed edge-on. This month's Hubble Heritage image of ESO 510-G13 shows a galaxy that, by contrast, has an unusual twisted disk structure, first seen in ground-based photographs obtained at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile. ESO 510-G13 lies in the southern constellation Hydra, roughly 150 million light-years from Earth.
Details of the structure of ESO 510-G13 are visible because the interstellar dust clouds that trace its disk are silhouetted from behind by light from the galaxy's bright, smooth central bulge.
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