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Another wonderful galaxy from Hubble... only in infrared and H-alpha, unfortunately. Almost forgot to add this to the Hidden Treasures group!
HST_9788_17_ACS_WFC_F814W_sci
HST_9788_17_ACS_WFC_F658N_sci
Astronaut Jeffrey A. Hoffman on the Remote Manipulator System arm uses a 35mm camera to photograph crewmate F. Story Musgrave with the Hubble Space Telescope in the background.
Située dans la constellation du Triangle (Triangulum) à 2,5 millions d'a.l. de la Terre, la nébuleuse en émission du Triangle NGC 604, avec un diamètre de 1500 a.l., soit 40 fois la taille de la nébuleuse d'Orion, est 6300 fois plus lumineuse que celle-ci, si elle se trouvait à la même distance (1 350 al) et surpasserait l'éclat de Vénus. Comme toutes les nébuleuses en émission, son gaz est ionisé par un amas d'étoiles massives en son cœur (cf. wikipédia).
Pour situer l'astre dans sa constellation :
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Powered by an L-440 Ranger aircraft engine. Yes, I have shot this before. I tried not to duplicate earlier shots taken here, but hey, stuff happens. Eastern Museum of Motor Racing, York Springs, PA, June 11, 2022.
NGC 346 is an open cluster with associated nebula which spans 200 light-years. It is part of the Small Magellanic Cloud and lies approximately 210,000 light-years away in the constellation Tucana.
Three panel mosaic
Hubble Legacy Archive Data set:
HST_10248_01_ACS_WFC_F814W_sci(Red)
HST_10248_02_ACS_WFC_F814W_sci(Red)
HST_10248_a3_ACS_WFC_F814W_sci(Red)
HST_10248_a3_ACS_WFC_F658N_sci(Red)
HST_10248_01_ACS_WFC_F555W_sci(Blue)
HST_10248_02_ACS_WFC_F555W_sci(Blue)
HST_10248_a3_ACS_WFC_F555W_sci(Blue)
ESO VLT/FORS2 Data:
FORS2.1999-11-09T04_27_54.085(Ha)(Red)
Synthetic Green
This composite color infrared image of the center of our Milky Way galaxy reveals a new population of massive stars and new details in complex structures in the hot ionized gas swirling around the central 300 light-years.
A new finding is that astronomers now see that the massive stars are not confined to one of the three known clusters of massive stars in the Galactic Center, known as the Central cluster, the Arches cluster, and the Quintuplet cluster. These three clusters are easily seen as tight concentrations of bright, massive stars in the NICMOS image.
This view combines the sharp imaging of the Hubble Space Telescope's Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) with color imagery from a previous Spitzer Space Telescope survey done with its Infrared Astronomy Camera (IRAC).
mosaic image represents the largest piece of sky ever mapped for one NICMOS observing program. It was combined with a full-color Spitzer image to yield a color composite of the nuclear region
The NICMOS mosaic required 144 Hubble orbits to make 2,304 science exposures. It was taken between February 22 and June 5, 2008.
FILE - This 2003 image from the Hubble telescope, provided by NASA, shows a storm of turbulent gases in the Omega/Swan nebula. (AP Photo/NASA)
This Hubble Space Telescope image captures the chaotic activity atop a three-light-year-tall pillar of gas and dust that is being eaten away by the brilliant light from nearby bright stars. The pillar is also being assaulted from within, as infant stars buried inside it fire off jets of gas that can be seen streaming from towering peaks.
This turbulent cosmic pinnacle lies within a tempestuous stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula, located 7,500 light-years away in the southern constellation Carina.
Scorching radiation and fast winds (streams of charged particles) from super-hot newborn stars in the nebula are shaping and compressing the pillar, causing new stars to form within it. Streamers of hot ionized gas can be seen flowing off the ridges of the structure, and wispy veils of gas and dust, illuminated by starlight, float around its towering peaks. The denser parts of the pillar are resisting being eroded by radiation much like a towering butte in Utah's Monument Valley withstands erosion by water and wind.
Nestled inside this dense mountain are fledgling stars. Long streamers of gas can be seen shooting in opposite directions off the pedestal at the top of the image. A second pair of jets is visible at another peak near the center of the image. These jets (known as HH 901 and HH 902) are the signpost for new star birth. The jets are launched by swirling disks around the young stars, which allow material to slowly accrete onto the stars' surfaces.
Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 observed the pillar on February 1-2, 2010. The colors in this composite image correspond to the glow of oxygen (blue), hydrogen and nitrogen (green), and sulfur (red).
For more information please visit:
hubblesite.org/image/2707/news_release/2010-13
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
This series of photos is intended for use as desktop backgrounds. These are not my images, they are simply crops I have made from NASA originals.
These photos are public domain, and are available at this site.
This is M51, the Whirlpool Galaxy, seen with it's companion galaxy.
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope spacecraft was built by Lockheed Missiles Space Corporation (now Lockheed Martin) in its Sunnyvale, California facility. Since the 1990 launch, Lockheed Martin personnel located at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, have helped NASA manage the day-to-day spacecraft operations of the telescope, and provided preparation and training for the telescope’s many servicing missions.
This luminescent image features multiple galaxies, perhaps most noticeably LEDA 58109, the lone galaxy in the upper right. LEDA 58109 is flanked by two further galactic objects to its lower left — an active galactic nucleus (AGN) called SDSS J162558.14+435746.4 that partially obscures the galaxy SDSS J162557.25+435743.5, which appears to poke out to the right behind the AGN. Galaxy classification is sometimes presented as something of a dichotomy: spiral and elliptical. However, the diversity of galaxies in this image alone highlights the complex web of galaxy classifications that exist, including galaxies that house extremely luminous AGNs at their cores, and galaxies whose shapes defy the classification of either spiral or elliptical. The sample of galaxies here also illustrates the wide variety of names that galaxies have: some relatively short, like LEDA 58109, and some very long and challenging to remember, such as the two galaxies to the left. This is due to the variety of cataloguing systems that chart the celestial objects in the night sky. No one catalogue is exhaustive, and they cover overlapping regions of the sky, so that many galaxies belong to several different catalogues. For example, the galaxy on the right is LEDA 58109 in the LEDA galaxy database, but is also known as MCG+07-34-030 in the MCG galaxy catalogue, and SDSS J162551.50+435747.5 in the SDSS galaxy catalogue — the same catalogue that also lists the two galaxies to the left.
NGC 3081 is in the constellation Hydra at a distance of 100 million light years, and is one of the best examples of a resonance ring barred galaxy.
Hubble Legacy Archive Data set:
hst_08707_01_wfpc2_f439w_wf
hst_08707_01_wfpc2_f555w_wf
hst_08707_01_wfpc2_f814w_wf
NGC 4522 is an example of a spiral galaxy that is currently being stripped of its gas content. The galaxy is part of the Virgo galaxy cluster and its rapid motion within the cluster results in strong winds across the galaxy as the gas within is left behind. Scientists estimate that the galaxy is moving at more than 10 million kilometers per hour. The galaxy is located some 60 million light-years away from Earth. (Hubble site)
Hubble Legacy Archive Data set:
HST_9773_02_ACS_WFC_F435W_sci (Blue)
HST_9773_01_ACS_WFC_F606W_sci (Green)
HST_9773_01_ACS_WFC_F814W_sci (Red)
Members of the Hubble operations team work in the control room on July 15, 2021 to restore Hubble to science operations.
Credits: NASA/Goddard/Rebecca Roth
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More info:
Hubble’s payload computer, which controls and coordinates the observatory’s onboard science instruments, halted suddenly on June 13. When the main computer failed to receive a signal from the payload computer, it automatically placed Hubble’s science instruments into safe mode. That meant the telescope would no longer be doing science while mission specialists analyzed the situation.
In response to the anomaly, NASA began a switch to backup spacecraft hardware on Hubble in response to an ongoing problem with its payload computer. This was a multi-day event.
Science observations restarted the afternoon of Saturday, July 17.
Read more: www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/hubble-returns-to-full-...
Credit: NASA/Goddard/Rebecca Roth
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Proposal ID: 14362
Red: hst_14362_01_acs_wfc_f814w_drz
Green: hst_14362_01_acs_wfc_f606w_drz
Blue: hst_14362_01_acs_wfc_f475w_drz
Some files from the Hubble archives
I think they are Ha,OIII an SII...I just looked at all the (100) images available as previews and picked them based on my recall of my own results
Its confusing in there....(!)
After all my recent worry about my results lately (disappointing) it was comforting somehow to work on this image....(!)
Other than brighter objects, I am still struggling to get good results from a city location....even with extreme NB filters.
Taking 30 minute exposures with a low QE camera is frustrating.I am already working at f/5...not really interested in Hyperstar etc...
Running out of options...
Was looking at higher QE camera's today...FLI mostly...
They are 10 to 15,000 $$...(more for super large chips)
Is it worth it...?
Just wondering..........................................In a bit of a funk today about the whole situation.
Obviously the first thing I need to do is get off my butt and try these same exposures at a darker site,before wasting $ on a camera.
This image from Hubble Space Telescope shows the tip of of a 3-light-year-long pillar, bathed in the glow of light from hot, massive stars off the top of the image. Composed of gas and dust, the pillar resides in a tempestuous stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula, located 7,500 light-years away in the southern constellation Carina. Scorching radiation and fast winds (streams of charged particles) from these stars are sculpting the pillar and causing new stars to form within it. Streamers of gas and dust can be seen flowing off the top of the structure.
Nestled inside this dense structure are fledgling stars. They cannot be seen in this image because they are hidden by a wall of gas and dust. Although the stars themselves are invisible, one of them is providing evidence of its existence. Thin puffs of material can be seen traveling to the left and to the right of a dark notch in the center of the pillar. The matter is part of a jet produced by a young star. Farther away, on the left, the jet is visible as a grouping of small, wispy clouds. A few small clouds are visible at a similar distance on the right side of the jet. Astronomers estimate that the jet is moving at speeds of up to 850,000 miles an hour. The jet's total length is about 10 light-years.
Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 observed the Carina Nebula on July 24-30, 2009. WFC3 was installed aboard Hubble in May 2009 during Servicing Mission 4. The composite image was made from filters that isolate emission from iron, magnesium, oxygen, hydrogen, and sulfur.
Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 observed the Carina Nebula on July 24-30, 2009. WFC3 was installed aboard Hubble in May 2009 during Servicing Mission 4. The composite image was made from filters that isolate emission from oxygen, hydrogen, and sulfur.
My processing of M99 galaxy from Hubble was used with my permission in an online publication Journal of Futures Studies, June 2022
Messier 101 (M101) is a face-on spiral galaxy about 22 million light years away in the constellation Ursa Major. It is similar to the Milky Way galaxy in many ways, but is larger. The new "Great Observatories" composite image of M101 was distributed to over 100 planetariums, museums, nature centers, and schools across the country in conjunction with Galileo's birthday on February 15. The year 2009 marks the 400th anniversary of Galileo's telescope and has been designated the International Year of Astronomy to celebrate this historic anniversary.
This image of the spiral galaxy Messier 101 (M101) is a composite of data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope, and the Spitzer Space Telescope. The colors correspond to the following wavelengths: The X-rays detected by Chandra are colored blue. Sources of X-rays include million-degree gas, the debris from exploded stars, and material zooming around black holes and neutron stars. The red color shows Spitzer's view in infrared light. It highlights the heat emitted by dust lanes in the galaxy where stars can form. Finally, the yellow coloring is visible light data from Hubble. Most of this light comes from stars, and they trace the same spiral structure as the dust lanes.
Image credit:
X-ray: NASA/CXC/JHU/K.Kuntz et al.; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI/JHU/K. Kuntz et al; IR: NASA/JPL-Caltech/STScI/K. Gordon
Learn more:
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/news/H-09-026.html
p.s. You can see all of our Chandra photos in the Chandra Group in Flickr at: www.flickr.com/groups/chandranasa/ We'd love to have you as a member!
The Hubble Space Telescope is seen securely latched down on a special support structure (out of frame) in the cargo bay of the Space Shuttle Columbia during STS-109 in 2002. The crew aimed various cameras out the shuttle's aft flight deck windows to take a series of survey-type photos, the first closeup images of the telescope since December 1999.
Credit: NASA
NGC 5256 is a pair of galaxies in its final stage of merging. It was previously observed by Hubble as part of a collection of 59 images of merging galaxies, released on Hubble’s 18th anniversary on 24 April 2008. The new data make the gas and dust being whirled around inside and outside the galaxy more visible than ever before.
Data was used from the following proposals:
archive.stsci.edu/proposal_search.php?mission=hst&id=...
archive.stsci.edu/proposal_search.php?mission=hst&id=...
Channel Assignment:
R: 814w, 673n
G: 435w, 814w
B: 435w
All processing was done in pixinisight.
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This Picture of the Week shows Arp 230, also known as IC 51, observed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Arp 230 is a galaxy of an uncommon or peculiar shape, and is therefore part of the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies produced by Halton Arp. Its irregular shape is thought to be the result of a violent collision with another galaxy sometime in the past. The collision could also be held responsible for the formation of the galaxy’s polar ring. The outer ring surrounding the galaxy consists of gas and stars and rotates over the poles of the galaxy. It is thought that the orbit of the smaller of the two galaxies that created Arp 230 was perpendicular to the disc of the second, larger galaxy when they collided. In the process of merging the smaller galaxy would have been ripped apart and may have formed the polar ring structure astronomers can observe today. Arp 230 is quite small for a lenticular galaxy, so the two original galaxies forming it must both have been smaller than the Milky Way. A version of this image was entered into the Hubble’s Hidden Treasures image processing competition by flickr user Det58. Links Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies
All images in this set are participating in the 2014 Hubble Madness Championship, at www.facebook.com/HubbleTelescope/app_432387213452269.
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope spacecraft was built by Lockheed Missiles Space Corporation (now Lockheed Martin) in its Sunnyvale, California facility. Since the 1990 launch, Lockheed Martin personnel located at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, have helped NASA manage the day-to-day spacecraft operations of the telescope, and provided preparation and training for the telescope’s many servicing missions.
STS-125 Mission Specialist 1 (MS1) Michael Good, positioned on a foot restraint on the end of Space Shuttle Atlantis' Remote Manipulator System (RMS), and MS4 Mike Massimino (lower right, partially out of the frame) participate in the mission's fourth session of extravehicular activity (EVA4) as work continues to refurbish and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope. During the eight-hour, two-minute spacewalk, Good and Massimino continued repairs and improvements to the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) that has helped extend Hubble's life.
Credit: NASA
This wide-angle shot of the Hubble Space Telescope in the Space Shuttle Discovery’s cargo bay, backdropped against Australia, was taken during the fifth extravehicular activity (EVA) added to complete servicing of the orbiting observatory. Steven L. Smith (center frame) and Mark C. Lee (on the Remote Manipulator System, or RMS, arm) conducted a survey of the hand rails on Hubble. In the foreground is the hatchway of the airlock that connects the airless payload bay to the shirt-sleeve environment of Discovery’s crew cabin.
Credit: NASA
Dans la constellation de l'Octant (Octans), à 95 millions d'a.l. de la Terre, la galaxie spirale barrée NGC 7098 a une barre très saillante qui a la forme d’un large ovale avec une anse presque droite. Autour se trouve un anneau intérieur composé de quatre bras en spirale étroitement enveloppés. Située à l'extérieur de la bague intérieure, une bague bien définie entoure la région intérieure, semblant s'être formée en raison de l'enroulement des deux bras en spirale. Si les deux anneaux semblent affectés par la formation d'étoiles, il n'y en a pas dans le noyau, comme le montre l'absence de pistes de poussière (cf. wikipédia).
Pour situer l'astre dans sa constellation :
www.flickr.com/photos/7208148@N02/48920871243/in/datepost...
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope spacecraft was built by Lockheed Missiles Space Corporation (now Lockheed Martin) in its Sunnyvale, California facility. Since the 1990 launch, Lockheed Martin personnel located at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, have helped NASA manage the day-to-day spacecraft operations of the telescope, and provided preparation and training for the telescope’s many servicing missions.
The Hubble Space Telescope is backdropped against the black of space as the Space Shuttle Columbia, with a crew of seven astronauts on board, eases closer and closer in order to latch its 50-foot-long robotic arm onto a grapple fixture on the giant telescope. As Columbia flew 350 miles above the Pacific Ocean southwest of Mexico, with astronaut Nancy J. Currie, mission specialist, in control of the arm and astronaut Scott D. Altman, mission commander, at the controls of the shuttle, the crew went on to capture Hubble. The image is one of a series recorded with a digital still camera.
The gold of the solar arrays, illuminated by the light of orbital sunrise, provides stark contrast to the blackness of space in this scene, photographed at the completion of the servicing of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) in 1999. Arcing between the telescope and one of the solar panels is the thin, blue-white line of Earth's atmosphere.
Credit: NASA
On July 15, 2021, the Hubble operations team at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center began a complicated switch to backup spacecraft hardware in response to an ongoing problem with its payload computer, which monitors and instructs the instruments.
The spacecraft was monitored from the Space Telescope Operations Control Center’s Operations Support Room, seen here from behind the NASA operations manager station as the Hubble team proceeds with switching to backup hardware.
Credit: NASA/Goddard/Rebecca Roth
For more information about this story, visit: www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/hubble-returns-to-full-...
For a day-by-day summary of this story, visit: www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2021/operations-underway-to-...
This looks like a genuine new planet.....If you look close to the picture you will see its almost impossible to recreate.....But what do you think ?
*** View through Red/Cyan glasses ***
NOTE: Calibrate monitor to use 'Color LCD' - to give optimum match between Red/Cyan glasses and LCD Display.
Anaglyph created from two frames of a ESA 'hubblecast' video... www.spacetelescope.org/videos/archive/topic/spacecraft//
The Hubble Space Telescope is backdropped against the black of space as the Space Shuttle Columbia, with a crew of seven astronauts on board, eases closer and closer in order to latch its 50-foot-long robotic arm onto a grapple fixture on the giant telescope. As Columbia flew 350 miles above the Pacific Ocean southwest of Mexico, with astronaut Nancy J. Currie, mission specialist, in control of the arm and astronaut Scott D. Altman, mission commander, at the controls of the shuttle, the crew went on to capture Hubble. The image is one of a series recorded with a digital still camera.
NASA image release June 3, 2010
These NASA Hubble Space Telescope snapshots reveal an impact scar on Jupiter fading from view over several months between July 2009 and November 2009.
To see the full image without text go to: www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/4666495627
Credit: NASA, ESA, M. Wong, H. Hammel, I. de Pater, and the Jupiter Impact Team
To learn more go to: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hubble/science/jupiter-strike....
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is home to the nation's largest organization of combined scientists, engineers and technologists that build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study the Earth, the sun, our solar system, and the universe.
The other member of Hickson Compact Group 7.
Hubble Legacy Archive Data set:
HST_10787_21_ACS_WFC_F435W
HST_10787_21_ACS_WFC_F606W
HST_10787_21_ACS_WFC_F814W
Dans la constellation du Paon (Pavo), à 30 millions d'a.l. de la Terre, la galaxie spirale barrée NGC 6744 a une région centrale proéminente remplie de vieilles étoiles jaunes, avec un disque de 200 000 a.l. de diamètre. En s’éloignant du noyau galactique, certaines parties des bras en spirale apparaissent poussiéreux, les sites bleus étant pleins de jeunes amas d’étoiles, et les roses des régions de formation d’étoiles actives (cf. wikipédia, site Hubble).
Pour situer l'astre dans sa constellation :
www.flickr.com/photos/7208148@N02/48933234853/in/datepost...
Située à 40 millions d'a.l. de la Terre, dans la constellation du Lion (LEO), la galaxie spirale NGC 3521 n'a pas la structure clairement définie d’arcs avec des bras spiralés mais de spirale flottante. Environ 30 % des galaxies partagent cette hétérogénéité, seulement 10 % des galaxies ayant des spirales avec de grands bras (cf. site Hubble).
Pour voir l'astre dans sa constellation :
www.flickr.com/photos/7208148@N02/48767269302/in/datepost...