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Edited Hubble Space Telescope image of the globular cluster NGC 2210 in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Original caption: This striking image shows the densely packed globular cluster known as NGC 2210, which is situated in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The LMC lies about 157 000 light-years from Earth, and is a so-called satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, meaning that the two galaxies are gravitationally bound. Globular clusters are very stable, tightly bound clusters of thousands or even millions of stars. Their stability means that they can last a long time, and therefore globular clusters are often studied in order to investigate potentially very old stellar populations. In fact, 2017 research that made use of some of the data that were also used to build this image revealed that a sample of LMC globular clusters were incredibly close in age to some of the oldest stellar clusters found in the Milky Way’s halo. They found that NGC 2210 specifically probably clocks in at around 11.6 billion years of age. Even though this is only a couple of billion years younger than the Universe itself, it made NGC 2210 by far the youngest globular cluster in their sample. All other LMC globular clusters studied in the same work were found to be even older, with four of them over 13 billion years old. This is interesting, because it tells astronomers that the oldest globular clusters in the LMC formed contemporaneously with the oldest clusters in the Milky Way, even though the two galaxies formed independently. As well as being a source of interesting research, this old-but-relatively-young cluster is also extremely beautiful, with its highly concentrated population of stars. The night sky would look very different from the perspective of an inhabitant of a planet orbiting one of the stars in a globular cluster’s centre: the sky would appear to be stuffed full of stars, in a stellar environment that is thousands of times more crowded than our own. Links Science paper in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society [Image Description: A dense cluster of stars. It is brightest and most crowded in the centre, where the stars are mostly a cool white colour. Moving out towards the edges the stars become more spread out and reddish until a noticeable ‘edge’ to the cluster is reached. Beyond that edge there are still many stars, more disorganised and seen on a black background. Some stars appear to be in front of the cluster.]
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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.
Taken near San Pedro de Atacama, Chile.
Nikon D750, Samyang 135 mm f/2.0, Star Adventurer mini tracker. Composite of 17 images 28 sec, f/2.5, ISO3200. Processing: Deep Sky Stacker, Adobe Lightroom.
28-29 APR 2017, Coonabarabran, N.S.W., Australia.
Nikon D5500 (Mod), Samyang 135mm f/2, Kenko Skymemo.
Lights x 53 x 180s, ISO640, f/4; Darks x 100; Flats x 25, Bias x 200.
Processed in Pixinsight, Photoshop
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This image shows the entire Large Magellanic Cloud, with some of the brightest objects marked. The field of the new MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope image is indicated with an outline. The field of view is about ten degrees across. 1 June 2010
The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.[5] At a distance of 50 kiloparsecs (≈163,000 light-years), the LMC is the third-closest galaxy to the Milky Way, after the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal (~ 16 kpc) and the putative Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy (~ 12.9 kpc, though its status as a galaxy is under dispute) lying closer to the Galactic Center. The LMC has a diameter of about 14,000 light-years (4.3 kpc) and a mass of approximately 10 billion Sun masses (1010 solar masses), making it roughly 1/100 as massive as the Milky Way. The LMC is the fourth-largest galaxy in the Local Group, after the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), the Milky Way, and the Triangulum Galaxy (M33)
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The LMC is classified as a Magellanic spiral. It contains a very prominent bar in its center, suggesting that it may have been a barred dwarf spiral galaxy before its spiral arms were disrupted, likely by the Milky Way's gravity. The LMC's present irregular appearance is likely the result of tidal interactions with both the Milky Way and the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC).
With a declination of about −70°, the LMC is visible as a faint "cloud" only in the Southern Celestial Hemisphere and from latitudes south of 20° N, straddling the border between the constellations of Dorado and Mensa, and appears longer than 20 times the Moon's diameter (about 10° across) from dark sites away from light pollution.
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Edited Hubble Space Telescope image of the remnants of Supernova 1987A.
Original caption: Three decades ago, astronomers spotted one of the brightest exploding stars in more than 400 years. The titanic supernova, called Supernova 1987A (SN 1987A), blazed with the power of 100 million suns for several months following its discovery on Feb. 23, 1987.
Since that first sighting, SN 1987A has continued to fascinate astronomers with its spectacular light show. Located in the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud, it is the nearest supernova explosion observed in hundreds of years and the best opportunity yet for astronomers to study the phases before, during, and after the death of a star.
To commemorate the 30th anniversary of SN 1987A, new images, time-lapse movies, a data-based animation based on work led by Salvatore Orlando at INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo, Italy, and a three-dimensional model are being released. By combining data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory, as well as the international Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), astronomers — and the public — can explore SN 1987A like never before.
Hubble has repeatedly observed SN 1987A since 1990, accumulating hundreds of images, and Chandra began observing SN 1987A shortly after its deployment in 1999. ALMA, a powerful array of 66 antennas, has been gathering high-resolution millimeter and submillimeter data on SN 1987A since its inception.
"The 30 years' worth of observations of SN 1987A are important because they provide insight into the last stages of stellar evolution," said Robert Kirshner of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation in Palo Alto, California.
The latest data from these powerful telescopes indicate that SN 1987A has passed an important threshold. The supernova shock wave is moving beyond the dense ring of gas produced late in the life of the pre-supernova star when a fast outflow or wind from the star collided with a slower wind generated in an earlier red giant phase of the star's evolution. What lies beyond the ring is poorly known at present, and depends on the details of the evolution of the star when it was a red giant.
"The details of this transition will give astronomers a better understanding of the life of the doomed star, and how it ended," said Kari Frank of Penn State University who led the latest Chandra study of SN 1987A.
Supernovas such as SN 1987A can stir up the surrounding gas and trigger the formation of new stars and planets. The gas from which these stars and planets form will be enriched with elements such as carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and iron, which are the basic components of all known life. These elements are forged inside the pre-supernova star and during the supernova explosion itself, and then dispersed into their host galaxy by expanding supernova remnants. Continued studies of SN 1987A should give unique insight into the early stages of this dispersal.
Some highlights from studies involving these telescopes include:
Hubble studies have revealed that the dense ring of gas around the supernova is glowing in optical light, and has a diameter of about a light-year. The ring was there at least 20,000 years before the star exploded. A flash of ultraviolet light from the explosion energized the gas in the ring, making it glow for decades.
The central structure visible inside the ring in the Hubble image has now grown to roughly half a light-year across. Most noticeable are two blobs of debris in the center of the supernova remnant racing away from each other at roughly 20 million miles an hour.
From 1999 until 2013, Chandra data showed an expanding ring of X-ray emission that had been steadily getting brighter. The blast wave from the original explosion has been bursting through and heating the ring of gas surrounding the supernova, producing X-ray emission.
In the past few years, the ring has stopped getting brighter in X-rays. From about February 2013 until the last Chandra observation analyzed in September 2015 the total amount of low-energy X-rays has remained constant. Also, the bottom left part of the ring has started to fade. These changes provide evidence that the explosion's blast wave has moved beyond the ring into a region with less dense gas. This represents the end of an era for SN 1987A.
Beginning in 2012, astronomers used ALMA to observe the glowing remains of the supernova, studying how the remnant is actually forging vast amounts of new dust from the new elements created in the progenitor star. A portion of this dust will make its way into interstellar space and may become the building blocks of future stars and planets in another system.
These observations also suggest that dust in the early universe likely formed from similar supernova explosions.
Astronomers also are still looking for evidence of a black hole or a neutron star left behind by the blast. They observed a flash of neutrinos from the star just as it erupted. This detection makes astronomers quite certain a compact object formed as the center of the star collapsed — either a neutron star or a black hole — but no telescope has uncovered any evidence for one yet.
These latest visuals were made possible by combining several sources of information including simulations by Salvatore Orlando and collaborators that appear in this paper: arxiv.org/abs/1508.02275. The Chandra study by Frank et al. can be found online at lanl.arxiv.org/abs/1608.02160. Recent ALMA results on SN 87A are available at arxiv.org/abs/1312.4086.
The Chandra program is managed by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, controls Chandra's science and flight operations.
The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and ESA (European Space Agency). NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the telescope. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore conducts Hubble science operations. STScI is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., in Washington.
ALMA is a partnership of ESO (representing its member states), NSF (USA) and NINS (Japan), together with NRC (Canada), NSC and ASIAA (Taiwan), and KASI (Republic of South Korea), in cooperation with the Republic of Chile. The Joint ALMA Observatory is operated by ESO, AUI/NRAO and NAOJ.
EARTH & SKY Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: Mt John University Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
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Astronomers have discovered a nebula that bears a striking resemblance to a Siberian Husky. This nebula, numbered N11 by astronomers, is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud. It is about 160,000 light-years from Earth.
EARTH & SKY Photo taken by Igor Hoogerwerf - Location: University of Canterbury Mt John Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
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The Milky Way in the southern hemisphere sky from Canis Major at top right to Centaurus at bottom left, from Sirius to Alpha Centauri. At centre is the huge Gum Nebula emission nebula bubble. At left of centre is the Carina Nebula. At bottom is the Large Magellanic Cloud. Crux is at lower left. ..This is a stack of 5 x 3-minute tracked exposures with the filter-modified Canon 5D MkII camera at ISO 2000 and 14mm Rokinon lens at f/2.5. On the iOptron Sky-Tracker, from Tibuc Gardens Cottage, Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia.
EARTH & SKY Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: Mt John University Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
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El Leoncito National Park, San Juan, Argentina
Nikon D610 with Samyang 14mm f/2.8
30 seconds @ f/2.8, ISO 3200
Sky is 16 light frames stacked in Starry Landscape Stacker for noise reduction.
The Large Magellanic Cloud, LMC, embedded in high haze adding the glow effect, accentuating star colours. To the left of centre is NGC 2070, the Tarantula Nebula complex. This is a stack of 4 x 8 minute exposures at f/4 with the Borg 77mm astrograph (300mm focal length) and Canon 5D MkII at ISO 800. Taken from Coonabarabran, Australia, March 2014.
Edited European Southern Observatory image of the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Annotation by the European Southern Observatory.
Original caption: Glowing brightly about 160 000 light-years away, the Tarantula Nebula is the most spectacular feature of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to our Milky Way. This image from VLT Survey Telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile shows the region and its rich surroundings in great detail. It reveals a cosmic landscape of star clusters, glowing gas clouds and the scattered remains of supernova explosions.
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Stereographic projection of namibian sky from our campsite on top of Eagle Hill (Tented Camp Gecko). RIght in the picture, near the horizon, one can see both Magellanic Clouds and in the left part the Zodiacal Light.
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Stereografische Projektion des namibischen Sternenhimmels von unserer Campsite auf dem Eagle Hill (Tented Camp Gecko). Rechts kann man beide Magellanschen Wolken sehen und im linken Teil das Zodiakallicht.
EARTH & SKY Photo taken by Igor Hoogerwerf - Location: University of Canterbury Mt John Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand. For some stunning Earth & Sky time-lapse animations, please refer to Earth & Sky Limited Partnership on You Tube.
EARTH & SKY Photo taken by Igor Hoogerwerf - Location: University of Canterbury Mt John Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand. For some stunning Earth & Sky time-lapse animations, please refer to Earth & Sky Limited Partnership on You Tube.
EARTH & SKY Photo taken by Igor Hoogerwerf - Location: University of Canterbury Mt John Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand. For some stunning Earth & Sky time-lapse animations, please refer to Earth & Sky Limited Partnership on You Tube.
EARTH & SKY Photo taken by David Weir - Location: Mt John University Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
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EARTH & SKY Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: Mt John University Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
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Irregular dwarf galaxies orbiting our own Milky Way, the magellanic clouds are visible in the Southern Hemisphere. This photo is taken with a Sony Alpha dSLR with 50mm f/1.7 lens on a fixed tripod. You can make out the Large Magellanic Cloud in the middle of the photo, particularly in the larger sizes. Read more on wikipedia
EARTH & SKY Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: The Church of the Good Shepherd, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
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Milky Way panorama with the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) visible in the top right corner. 10 image stitch.
So said Gimli, in the movie “The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring”, upon seeing a flock of approaching Crebain (large crow-like birds) that had been sent to spy on their party as they trekked through Middle Earth. Many people, including me, have thought or said something similar when first seeing one or both of the Magellanic Clouds in the skies of the (predominately) Southern Hemisphere. That’s how they got their names: they look like clouds.
Some historians see references to the clouds in ancient writings of several cultures. They were known to many Polynesian peoples and the Māori of New Zealand thought them to be predictors of winds. “In Sri Lanka, from ancient times, these clouds have been referred to as the Maha Mera Paruwathaya meaning "the great mountain", as they look like the peaks of a distant mountain range.” (Wikipedia).
The oldest written record of the two wafts of nocturnal light seems to be from the writings of the Muslim polymath Ibn Qutaybah, some time in the 7th century AD. After this, there are records of the Magellanic Clouds by observers from many European countries including Italy and Portugal. The most notable was by Antonia Pigafetta, who sailed with Ferdinand Magellan on his world-circumnavigational voyage from 1519-1522. Of all of these chroniclers of the Clouds, it was Magellan whose name is now attached to the two dwarf galaxies that are travelling through space with our Milky Way.
Here I’ve brought you an image of the Large Magellanic Cloud, suspended in the sky near Nowra, on the south-east coast of New South Wales, Australia. The photo is a section of a larger vertical panorama, created from three photos that were each captured with Canon EOS 6D, Canon 50mm @ f/2.8, 8 sec @ ISO 12800.
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Edited map of the stars of the Milky Way from Gaia data (original map created by ESA). Heavily distorted variant (looking like a particularly heavy black hole is at the center of our galaxy).
Original caption: Gaia, operated by the European Space Agency (ESA), surveys the sky from Earth orbit to create the largest, most precise, three-dimensional map of our Galaxy. One year ago, the Gaia mission produced its much-awaited second data release, which included high-precision measurements — positions, distance and proper motions — of more than one billion stars in our Milky Way galaxy. This catalogue has enabled transformational studies in many fields of astronomy, addressing the structure, origin and evolution the Milky Way and generating more than 1700 scientific publications since its launch in 2013.
This image shows Gaia's all-sky view of the Milky Way based on measurements of almost 1.7 billion stars.
EARTH & SKY Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: Mt John University Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
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Edited (probably from the Deep Sky Survey) image of part of the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Tarantula Nebula. Color/processing variant.
Original caption: This ground-based view of the Tarantula Nebula shows the nebula in its entirety. It is the brightest region of star formation in the local Universe. Hubble’s field of view covers just a tiny spot in the upper-right quadrant of this image, though it reveals detail invisible here, including a supernova remnant.
EARTH & SKY Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: Mt John University Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
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Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: Mt John University Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
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EARTH & SKY Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: Mt John University Observatory, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
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Canon 60d
Astronomik CLS (EOS Clip) Light Pollution Filter
240sec exposures
800iso_36min_9frames
Sky Watcher ED80 Pro Gold Edition
Sky Watcher HEQ5
Orion Star Shoot Guider on a 50mm Scope
Backyard EOS Software 'Camera Control'
Longer exposures than previous attempts, also trying out a light pollution filter which inadvertedly makes everything look red, still getting to grips with post editing so not entirely satisfied with the overall red glow. I think the best way to battle light pollution is to drive away from the city.
Nikon D7100
Focal Length: 12mm
2015/01/21 23:25:56.7
Optimize Image: Custom
Color Mode: Mode III (aRGB)
Long Exposure NR: Off
High ISO NR: On (Low)
Exposure Mode: Manual
White Balance: Auto
RAW (14-bit)
Metering Mode: Multi-Pattern
AF Mode: Manual
25 sec - F/4
Exposure Comp.: 0 EV
Sensitivity: ISO 6400
Sharpening: Normal
Latitude: S 33°37.01' (33°37'0.5")
Longitude: W 69°58.16' (69°58'9.8")
Azimuth: 145º (SE)
Altitude: 2701.00 m
Lens: 12-24mm F/4 G Tokina
Image Comment: (c) Gerard Prins (+56) 22758 7209
EARTH & SKY Photo taken by Maki Yanagimachi - Location: Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
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