Photographs of deep space and planets. The latest pictures from the Hubble telescope
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The Hubble Space Telescope is an automatic observatory in orbit around the Earth, named after Edwin Hubble. The Hubble Telescope is a joint project between NASA and the European Space Agency; it is part of NASA's Large Observatories. Placing a telescope in space makes it possible to register electromagnetic radiation in the ranges in which the earth's atmosphere is opaque; primarily in the infrared range. Due to the absence of the influence of the atmosphere, the resolution of the telescope is 7-10 times greater than that of a similar telescope located on Earth. We invite you now to see the best images from this unique telescope over the past few years. Pictured: The Andromeda Galaxy is the closest of the giant galaxies to our Milky Way. Most likely our galaxy looks about the same as the Andromeda galaxy. These two galaxies dominate the Local Group of galaxies.
The hundreds of billions of stars that make up the Andromeda galaxy together give a visible diffuse glow. The individual stars in the image are actually stars in our galaxy, much closer than the distant object. The Andromeda Galaxy is often referred to as M31, as it is the 31st object in Charles Messier's catalog of diffuse celestial objects.
At the center of the "Doradus" star-forming region is a gigantic cluster of the largest, hottest, and most massive stars known to us. These stars form the R136 cluster shown in this image.
NGC 253. Brilliant NGC 253 is one of the brightest spiral galaxies we see, and at the same time one of the dustiest. Some call it the "Silver Dollar Galaxy" because it is shaped like that in a small telescope. Others simply call it "The Sculptor Galaxy" because it lies within the southern constellation Sculptor. This dusty galaxy is 10 million light-years away.
M83 is one of the closest spiral galaxies to us. From a distance that separates us from 15 million light years, it looks completely ordinary. However, if we look closer at the center of M83 with the largest telescopes, this area appears to us as a turbulent and noisy place.
Group of galaxies - Stephen's quintet. However, only four of the group of galaxies, located 300 million light-years away from us, participate in the cosmic dance, now approaching, then moving away from each other. Four interacting galaxies - NGC 7319, NGC 7318A, NGC 7318B and NGC 7317 - have a yellowish color and curved loops and tails, the shape of which is due to the influence of destructive tidal gravitational forces. The bluish galaxy NGC 7320, above left, is much closer than the others, only 40 million light-years away.
A giant cluster of stars distorts and splits the image of the galaxy. Many of them are images of a single unusual, bead-like blue ring galaxy, which by chance was located behind a giant cluster of galaxies. According to recent research, in total, at least 330 images of individual distant galaxies can be found in the picture. This stunning photograph of the galaxy cluster CL0024+1654 was taken in November 2004.
Spiral galaxy NGC 3521 lies just 35 million light-years away towards the constellation Leo. It has features such as ragged, irregular spiral arms adorned with dust, pinkish star-forming regions, and clusters of young, bluish stars.
Spiral galaxy M33 is a medium-sized galaxy from the Local Group. M33 is also called the Triangulum galaxy after the constellation in which it resides. M33 is not far from the Milky Way, its angular dimensions are more than twice the dimensions of the full moon, i.e. it is perfectly visible with good binoculars.
Nebula Lagoon. The bright Lagoon Nebula contains many different astronomical objects. Objects of particular interest include a bright open star cluster and several active star forming regions. In visual observation, the light from the cluster is lost against the background of a general red glow caused by the emission of hydrogen, while dark filaments arise from the absorption of light by dense layers of dust.
The Cat's Eye Nebula (NGC 6543) is one of the most famous planetary nebulae in the sky.
The small constellation Chameleon is located near the south pole of the World. The picture reveals the amazing features of the humble constellation, which is full of dusty nebulae and colorful stars. Blue reflection nebulae are scattered across the field.
The dark dusty Horsehead Nebula and the glowing Orion Nebula contrast in the sky. They are located at a distance of 1500 light years from us in the direction of the most recognizable celestial constellation. The familiar Horsehead Nebula is a small dark cloud in the shape of a horse's head looming against the background of red glowing gas in the lower left corner of the picture.
Crab Nebula. This confusion remained after the explosion of the star. The Crab Nebula is the result of a supernova explosion that was observed in 1054 AD. At the very center of the nebula is a pulsar - a neutron star with a mass equal to the mass of the Sun, which fits in an area the size of a small town.
This is a mirage from a gravitational lens. The bright red galaxy (LRG) pictured here has its gravity warped light from a more distant blue galaxy. Most often, such a distortion of light leads to the appearance of two images of a distant galaxy, but in the case of a very precise superposition of the galaxy and the gravitational lens, the images merge into a horseshoe - an almost closed ring. This effect was predicted by Albert Einstein 70 years ago.
The star V838 Mon. For unknown reasons, in January 2002, the outer envelope of the star V838 Mon suddenly expanded, making it the brightest star in the entire Milky Way. Then she became weak again, also suddenly. Astronomers have never observed such stellar flares before.
The Ring Nebula. It really looks like a ring in the sky. Therefore, hundreds of years ago, astronomers named this nebula according to its unusual shape. The Ring Nebula is also designated M57 and NGC 6720.
Pillar and jets in the Carina Nebula. This cosmic column of gas and dust is two light years wide. The structure is located in one of the largest star-forming regions in our galaxy. The Carina Nebula is visible in the southern sky and is 7500 light-years away from us.
Trifid Nebula. The beautiful multicolored Trifid Nebula allows you to explore cosmic contrasts. Also known as M20, it lies some 5,000 light-years away in the nebula-rich constellation of Sagittarius. The size of the nebula is about 40 light years.
Known as NGC 5194, this large galaxy with a well-developed spiral structure may have been the first spiral nebula to be discovered. It is clearly seen that its spiral arms and dust lanes pass in front of its companion galaxy, NGC 5195 (left). This pair is about 31 million light-years away and officially belongs to the small constellation Canes Venatici.
Centaurus A. A fantastic bunch of young blue star clusters, gigantic glowing gas clouds, and dark dust lanes surround the central region of the active galaxy Centaurus A.
Nebula Butterfly. Bright clusters and nebulae in planet Earth's night sky are often named after flowers or insects, and NGC 6302 is no exception. The central star of this planetary nebula is exceptionally hot, with a surface temperature of around 250,000 degrees Celsius.
An image of a supernova that exploded in 1994 on the outskirts of a spiral galaxy.
The Sombrero Galaxy. The appearance of the M104 galaxy resembles a hat, which is why it was called the Sombrero galaxy. The image shows distinct dark dust lanes and a bright halo of stars and globular clusters. The reasons why the Sombrero Galaxy looks like a hat are an unusually large central stellar bulge and dense dark lanes of dust located in the disk of the galaxy, which we can see almost edge-on.
M17 close-up view. Shaped by stellar winds and radiation, these fantastic wave-like formations are found in the M17 Nebula (Omega Nebula). The Omega Nebula lies in the nebula-rich constellation of Sagittarius and is 5,500 light-years away. Ragged clumps of dense and cold gas and dust are illuminated by the radiation of the stars in the image at the top right, in the future they can become sites of star formation.
What illuminates the nebula IRAS 05437+2502? There is no exact answer. Particularly enigmatic is the bright, inverted V-shaped arc that delineates the upper edge of mountain-like interstellar dust clouds near the center of the image.
Today, on Cosmonautics Day, we will enjoy pictures of the Hubble orbital telescope, which has been in orbit of our planet for more than twenty years and continues to reveal to us the secrets of space to this day.
NGC 5194
Known as NGC 5194, this large galaxy with a well-developed spiral structure may have been the first spiral nebula to be discovered. It is clearly seen that its spiral arms and dust lanes pass in front of its companion galaxy, NGC 5195 (left). This pair is about 31 million light-years away and officially belongs to the small constellation Canes Venatici.
Spiral galaxy M33 is a medium-sized galaxy from the Local Group. M33 is also called the Triangulum galaxy after the constellation in which it resides. About 4 times smaller (in radius) than our Milky Way Galaxy and the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), M33 is much larger than many dwarf galaxies. Due to its proximity to M31, M33 is thought by some to be a satellite of this more massive galaxy. M33 is not far from the Milky Way, its angular dimensions are more than twice the dimensions of the full moon, i.e. it is perfectly visible with good binoculars.
Stephen's Quintet
Group of galaxies - Stephen's quintet. However, only four of the group of galaxies, located 300 million light-years away from us, participate in the cosmic dance, now approaching, then moving away from each other. It's pretty easy to find one. Four interacting galaxies - NGC 7319, NGC 7318A, NGC 7318B and NGC 7317 - have a yellowish color and curved loops and tails, the shape of which is due to the influence of destructive tidal gravitational forces. The bluish galaxy NGC 7320, above left, is much closer than the others, only 40 million light-years away.
Andromeda Galaxy is the closest giant galaxy to our Milky Way. Most likely our galaxy looks about the same as the Andromeda galaxy. These two galaxies dominate the Local Group of galaxies. The hundreds of billions of stars that make up the Andromeda galaxy together give a visible diffuse glow. The individual stars in the image are actually stars in our galaxy, much closer than the distant object. The Andromeda Galaxy is often referred to as M31, as it is the 31st object in Charles Messier's catalog of diffuse celestial objects.
Nebula Lagoon
The bright Lagoon Nebula contains many different astronomical objects. Objects of particular interest include a bright open star cluster and several active star forming regions. In visual observation, the light from the cluster is lost against the background of a general red glow caused by the emission of hydrogen, while dark filaments arise from the absorption of light by dense layers of dust.
The Cat's Eye Nebula (NGC 6543) is one of the most famous planetary nebulae in the sky. Its hauntingly symmetrical shapes are visible in the center of this spectacular false-color image, specially manipulated to show a huge but very faint halo of gaseous matter, about three light-years in diameter, that surrounds a bright, familiar planetary nebula.
The small constellation Chameleon is located near the south pole of the World. The picture reveals the amazing features of the humble constellation, which is full of dusty nebulae and colorful stars. Blue reflection nebulae are scattered across the field.
Cosmic dust clouds faintly glowing with reflected starlight. Far from our familiar places on planet Earth, they hide on the edge of the Cepheus Halo molecular cloud complex, 1200 light-years away from us. Nebula Sh2-136, located near the center of the field, is brighter than other ghostly visions. Its size is more than two light years, and it is visible even in infrared light.
The dark dusty Horsehead Nebula and the glowing Orion Nebula contrast in the sky. They are located at a distance of 1500 light years from us in the direction of the most recognizable celestial constellation. And in today's wonderful composite photo, the nebulae occupy opposite corners. The familiar Horsehead Nebula is a small dark cloud in the shape of a horse's head looming against the background of red glowing gas in the lower left corner of the picture.
crab nebula
This confusion remained after the explosion of the star. The Crab Nebula is the result of a supernova explosion that was observed in 1054 AD. The supernova remnant is filled with mysterious filaments. The filaments are not just complicated to look at. The Crab Nebula is ten light-years across. At the very center of the nebula is a pulsar - a neutron star with a mass equal to the mass of the Sun, which fits in an area the size of a small town.
This is a mirage from a gravitational lens. The bright red galaxy (LRG) pictured here has its gravity warped light from a more distant blue galaxy. Most often, such a distortion of light leads to the appearance of two images of a distant galaxy, but in the case of a very precise superposition of the galaxy and the gravitational lens, the images merge into a horseshoe - an almost closed ring. This effect was predicted by Albert Einstein 70 years ago.
Star V838 Mon
For unknown reasons, in January 2002, the outer envelope of the star V838 Mon suddenly expanded, making it the brightest star in the entire Milky Way. Then she became weak again, also suddenly. Astronomers have never seen a stellar flare like this before.
The birth of the planets
How are planets formed? To try and figure this out, the Hubble Space Telescope was tasked with taking a close look at one of the most interesting of all the nebulae in the sky, the Great Nebula of Orion. The Orion Nebula can be seen with the naked eye near the belt of the constellation Orion. The insets in this photo show numerous proplyds, many of which are stellar nurseries that likely host planetary systems in formation.
Star cluster R136
At the center of the star-forming region of 30 Doradus is a gigantic cluster of the largest, hottest, and most massive stars known to us. These stars form the R136 cluster in this visible-light image from the upgraded Hubble Space Telescope.
The brilliant NGC 253 is one of the brightest spiral galaxies we see, and at the same time one of the dustiest. Some call it the "Silver Dollar Galaxy" because in a small telescope it has the appropriate shape. Others simply call it "The Sculptor Galaxy" because it lies within the southern constellation Sculptor. This dusty galaxy is 10 million light-years away.
Galaxy M83
M83 is one of the closest spiral galaxies to us. From a distance that separates us from 15 million light years, it looks completely ordinary. However, if we look closer at the center of M83 with the largest telescopes, this area appears to us as a turbulent and noisy place.
Nebula Ring
It really looks like a ring in the sky. Therefore, hundreds of years ago, astronomers named this nebula according to its unusual shape. The Ring Nebula also has the designations M57 and NGC 6720. The Ring Nebula is classified as a planetary nebula, a gas cloud that stars similar to the Sun throw out at the end of their lives. Its size exceeds the diameter. This is one of the earliest images of Hubble.
Pillar and jets in the Carina Nebula
This cosmic column of gas and dust is two light years wide. The structure is located in one of the largest star-forming regions in our Galaxy, the Carina Nebula, which is visible in the southern sky and is 7500 light-years away from us.
Center of the globular cluster Omega Centauri
In the center of the globular cluster Omega Centauri, the stars are packed ten thousand times denser than the stars in the vicinity of the Sun. The image shows many faint yellow-white stars, smaller than our Sun, several orange red giants, as well as occasional blue stars. If suddenly two stars collide, then one more massive star can form, or they form a new binary system.
Giant cluster distorts and splits the image of the galaxy
Many of them are images of a single unusual, bead-like blue ring galaxy, which by chance was located behind a giant cluster of galaxies. According to recent research, in total, at least 330 images of individual distant galaxies can be found in the picture. This stunning photograph of the galaxy cluster CL0024+1654 was taken by the Space Telescope. Hubble in November 2004.
Trifid Nebula
The beautiful multicolored Trifid Nebula allows you to explore cosmic contrasts. Also known as M20, it lies some 5,000 light-years away in the nebula-rich constellation of Sagittarius. The size of the nebula is about 40 light years.
Centaurus A
A fantastic bunch of young blue star clusters, giant glowing gas clouds and dark dust lanes surround the central region of the active galaxy Centaurus A. Centaurus A is close to Earth, at a distance of 10 million light years
Butterfly Nebula
Bright clusters and nebulae in planet Earth's night sky are often named after flowers or insects, and NGC 6302 is no exception. The central star of this planetary nebula is exceptionally hot, with a surface temperature of around 250,000 degrees Celsius.
An image of a supernova that exploded in 1994 on the outskirts of a spiral galaxy.
This remarkable cosmic portrait shows two colliding galaxies with merging spiral arms. Above and to the left of the large spiral galaxy of the NGC 6050 pair, a third galaxy can be seen, which is also likely to be involved in the interaction. All of these galaxies are about 450 million light-years away in the Hercules cluster of galaxies. At this distance, the image spans over 150,000 light-years. And although this view seems quite unusual, scientists now know that collisions and subsequent mergers of galaxies are not uncommon.
Spiral galaxy NGC 3521 lies just 35 million light-years away towards the constellation Leo. The galaxy, which spans 50,000 light-years, has features such as ragged, irregular spiral arms adorned with dust, pinkish star-forming regions, and clusters of young bluish stars.
Although this unusual outlier was first seen in the early twentieth century, its origin is still a matter of debate. The picture above, taken in 1998 by the Hubble Space Telescope, clearly shows details of the jet's structure. The most popular hypothesis suggests that the source of the ejection was heated gas orbiting a massive black hole at the center of the galaxy.
Sombrero galaxy
The appearance of the M104 galaxy resembles a hat, which is why it was called the Sombrero galaxy. The image shows distinct dark dust lanes and a bright halo of stars and globular clusters. The reasons why the Sombrero Galaxy looks like a hat are an unusually large central stellar bulge and dense dark lanes of dust located in the disk of the galaxy, which we can see almost edge-on.
M17 close-up view
Shaped by stellar winds and radiation, these fantastic wave-like formations are found in the M17 Nebula (Omega Nebula) and are part of a star forming region. The Omega Nebula lies in the nebula-rich constellation of Sagittarius and is 5,500 light-years away. Ragged clumps of dense and cold gas and dust are illuminated by the radiation of the stars in the image at the top right, in the future they can become sites of star formation.
What illuminates the nebula IRAS 05437+2502? So far, there is no definitive answer. Particularly puzzling is the bright, inverted V-shaped arc that marks the top edge of mountain-like interstellar dust clouds near the center of the image. All in all, this ghostly nebula contains a small star-forming region filled with dark dust. It was first seen in infrared images taken by the IRAS satellite in 1983. Shown here is a wonderful, recently published image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Although it shows a lot of new details, the reason for the appearance of a bright, clear arc could not be established.
Yesterday you observed strange and incomprehensible crop circles that aliens may have left :-), and today we will look into space ...
The Hubble telescope, launched by NASA in 1990, is, unlike most telescopes, not on Earth, but directly in orbit, so the pictures taken by it are 7-10 times better due to the absence of an atmosphere. Maintenance is carried out by cosmonauts during special flights, once every three years.
Anyone can theoretically get access to observations through the Hubble, you just need to apply and justify the need to look through the telescope. But, alas, not everything is so simple - there are a huge number of applications, so the competition is very tough, and most applicants have to be content with photographs.
However, looking at the photographs taken by this telescope, one cannot even believe that this is a reality, and not a frame from some science fiction film. Truly, the Universe is infinite, and there are no miracles in it either. Today I offer you a selection of 50 of the most interesting photographs taken from Hubble, in standard and large size, which you can download from the links and set as a background on your desktop.
01 Two galaxies merge into one. At this time, billions of stars and constellations are born.
02 In the photo, the Crab Nebula is an object with a very complex structure and the ability to change extremely quickly. 
03 An explosion of gas and dust in the diffuse nebula M-16 Eagle in the Serpent. The height of the column of dust and gas emerging from the nebula is about 90 trillion kilometers, which is twice the distance from our Sun to the nearest star. 
04 Galaxy M-51 in the constellation Canes Venatici, or whirlpool galaxy. Next to it is another smaller galaxy. They are 31 million light years away. 
05 Planetary nebula NGS 6543, similar to the All-Seeing Eye from Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Such nebulae are very rare. 
06 Planetary nebula Helix, in the center of which is a slowly fading star. 
07 Meet the newborn stars in N90, the Small Magellanic Cloud. 
08 Gas explosion in the planetary nebula Ring, constellation Lyra. The distance from the nebula to our Earth is 2000 light years. 
09 Spiral galaxy NGS 52, birth of new stars 
10 View of the Orion Nebula. This is the region closest to Earth where new stars are being born - "only" 1,500 light-years away. 
11 An explosion of gas in the planetary nebula NGS 6302 formed what looked like butterfly wings. The temperature of the substance in each of the "wings" is about 20 thousand degrees Celsius, and the speed of the particles is 950 thousand kilometers per hour. At this speed, you can get from Earth to the Moon in 24 minutes. 
12 And this is what the quasars, or cores of the first galaxies, looked like, a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. Quasars are one of the brightest and oldest objects in the universe. 
13 A unique photograph of the narrow galaxy NGS 8856, turned "sideways" to us. 
14 Iridescent overflows in a fading star. 
15 The Centaurus A galaxy is one of the closest to us (12 million light years). 
16 The appearance of new stars in the Messiere galaxy, the Orion Nebula. 
17 The birth of a star in the Orion Nebula, a cosmic vortex. 
18 A column of gas and dust about 7 light years high in the constellation Monoceros, 2500 light years from our planet. 
19 One of the best photographs taken from the Hubble telescope is the broken spiral galaxy NGS 1300. 
20 The Sombrero Galaxy, located 28 million light-years from Earth, is one of the most interesting and beautiful in the universe. 
21 This is not a bas-relief depicting ancient heroes, but just a column of dust and gas 7,500 light-years away. 
22 The birth of new stars in the Milky Way 
23 The play of light and shadow in the constellation Carina, 7500 light years from Earth. 
24 Outburst of gas from a dying star, a white dwarf the size of our Sun 
25 Gap in the Orion Nebula 
26 Stars in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy 168,000 light-years away. 
27 The Messieres Galaxy, where new stars appear 10 times more often than in the Milky Way. 
28 A cloud of dust and gas in the constellation Carina 
29 Young stars in a relatively new galaxy. The mass of the smallest star is half that of our Sun. 
30 Nebula in the constellation Carina 
31 Black Hole 
32 An amazingly beautiful spiral galaxy in the constellation Ophiuchus, not far from the center of the Milky Way 
33 Solar system . Although this is not a photograph from the Hubble telescope, I really liked it and it will look very nice as a desktop background ;-) 
34 Planetary Nebula "Necklace" 
35 Red giant - a star in the constellation Monoceros 
36 Spiral galaxy, distance to it - 85 million light years. 
37 Clouds of cosmic dust in the Milky Way 
38 A very beautiful spiral galaxy 11.6 million light-years from Earth 
39 Center of our Galaxy 
The huge structure, spread out in the vastness of the Cosmos for many billions of kilometers, shone with an unearthly light. The Floating City was unanimously recognized as the Abode of the Creator, the place where only the throne of the Lord God can be located. A NASA representative stated that the City cannot be inhabited in the usual sense of the word, most likely, the souls of dead people live in it.
However, another, no less fantastic version of the origin of the cosmic City has the right to exist. The fact is that in search of extraterrestrial intelligence, the very existence of which has not even been questioned for several decades, scientists are faced with a paradox. If we assume that the Universe is massively populated by many civilizations at the most different levels of development, then among them there must inevitably be some kind of super-civilizations that have not just entered the Cosmos, but have actively populated the vast expanses of the Universe. And the activities of these supercivilizations, including engineering - to change the natural habitat (in this case, outer space and objects in the zone of influence) - should be noticeable at a distance of many millions of light years.
However, until recently, astronomers have not noticed anything like this. And now - a clear man-made object of galactic proportions. It is possible that the City, discovered by Hubble on Catholic Christmas at the end of the 20th century, turned out to be just such a desired engineering structure of an unknown and very powerful extraterrestrial civilization.
The size of the city is amazing. Not a single celestial object known to us is able to compete with this giant. Our Earth in this City would be just a grain of sand on the dusty side of the cosmic avenue.
Where does this giant move - and does it move at all? Computer analysis of a series of photographs taken from the Hubble showed that the movement of the City generally coincides with the movement of the galaxies surrounding it. That is, with respect to the Earth, everything happens within the framework of the Big Bang theory. The galaxies "scatter", the redshift increases with increasing distance, no deviations from the general law are observed.
However, during the three-dimensional modeling of the remote part of the Universe, a startling fact was revealed: it is not a part of the Universe that is moving away from us, but we are moving away from it. Why is the reference point moved to the City? Because it was this foggy speck in the photographs that turned out to be the “center of the Universe” in the computer model. The three-dimensional moving image clearly demonstrated that the galaxies somehow scatter, but precisely from that point of the Universe where the City is located. In other words, all galaxies, including ours, once came out of this very point in space, and it is around the City that the Universe rotates. And therefore, the first idea of the City, as the Abode of God, turned out to be extremely successful and close to the truth.
Mysterious nebulae that are millions of light years away, the birth of new stars and the collision of galaxies. A selection of the best photographs from the Hubble Space Telescope in recent times.
1. Dark nebulae in a cluster of young stars. Shown here is a section of a star cluster in the Eagle Nebula that formed about 5.5 million years ago and lies 6,500 light-years from Earth. (Photo by ESA | Hubble & NASA):
2. The giant galaxy NGC 7049, located at a distance of 100 million light years from Earth, in the constellation Indus. (Photo by NASA, ESA and W. Harris - McMaster University, Ontario, Canada):
3. The emission nebula Sh2-106 is located two thousand light-years from Earth. It is a compact region of star formation. At its center is the star S106 IR, which is surrounded by dust and hydrogen - in the photo it is painted in conditional blue. (Photo by NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team, STScI | AURA, and NAOJ):
4. Abell 2744, also known as the Pandora Cluster, is a giant cluster of galaxies, the result of the simultaneous collision of at least four separate small clusters of galaxies, which occurred over a period of 350 million years. The galaxies in the cluster make up less than five percent of its mass, the gas (about 20%) is so hot that it glows only in the X-ray range. The mysterious dark matter makes up about 75% of the cluster's mass. (Photo by NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz, M. Mountain, A. Koekemoer, & the HFF Team):
5. "Caterpillar" and the emission nebula Carina (a region of ionized hydrogen) in the constellation Carina. (Photo by NASA, ESA, N. Smith, University of California, Berkeley, and The Hubble Heritage Team. STScI | AURA):
6. Barred spiral galaxy NGC 1566 (SBbc) in the constellation Dorado. It is located 40 million light years from us. (Photo by ESA | Hubble & NASA, Flickr user Det58):
7. IRAS 14568-6304 is a young star located 2500 light years from Earth. This dark region is the Circinus molecular cloud, which has 250,000 solar masses and is filled with gas, dust, and young stars. (Photo by ESA | Hubble & NASA Acknowledgments: R. Sahai | JPL, Serge Meunier):
8. Portrait of a star kindergarten. Hundreds of brilliant blue stars covered in warm, glowing clouds make up R136, a compact star cluster that lies at the center of the Tarantula Nebula.
The R136 cluster is made up of young stars, giants, and supergiants, estimated to be about 2 million years old. (Photo by NASA, ESA, and F. Paresce, INAF-IASF, Bologna, R. O "Connell, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, and the Wide Field Camera 3 Science Oversight Committee):
9. Spiral galaxy NGC 7714 in the constellation Pisces. It is located at a distance of 100 million light years from Earth. (Photo by ESA, NASA, A. Gal-Yam, Weizmann Institute of Science):
10. An image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope shows the warm planetary nebula Red Spider, also known as NGC 6537.
This unusual undulating structure is located about 3,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius. A planetary nebula is an astronomical object consisting of an ionized gas envelope and a central star, a white dwarf. They are formed during the ejection of the outer layers of red giants and supergiants with a mass of up to 1.4 solar masses at the final stage of their evolution. (Photo by ESA & Garrelt Mellema, Leiden University, the Netherlands):
11. The Horsehead Nebula is a dark nebula in the constellation of Orion. One of the most famous nebulae. It is visible as a dark spot in the shape of a horse's head against the background of a red glow. This glow is explained by the ionization of hydrogen clouds behind the nebula under the action of radiation from the nearest bright star (ζ Orionis). (Photo by NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team, AURA | STScI):
12. This Hubble Space Telescope image shows the nearest spiral galaxy, NGC 1433, in the constellation Clock. It is located at a distance of 32 million light years from us, and belongs to the type of very active galaxies / (Photo by Space Scoop | ESA | Hubble & NASA, D. Calzetti, UMass and the LEGU.S. Team):
13. A rare cosmic phenomenon - the Einstein ring, resulting from the fact that the gravity of a massive body bends electromagnetic radiation coming towards the Earth from a more distant object.
Einstein's general theory of relativity states that the gravity of such large space objects as galaxies bends the space around them and deflects light rays. In this case, a distorted image of another galaxy appears - a source of light. The galaxy that warps space is called a gravitational lens. (Photo by ESA | Hubble & NASA):
14. Nebula NGC 3372 in the constellation Carina. A large bright nebula that has several open star clusters within its boundaries. (Photo by NASA, ESA, M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team, STScI):
15. Abell 370 - a cluster of galaxies at a distance of about 4 billion light years in the constellation Cetus. The core of the cluster consists of several hundred galaxies. It is the most distant cluster. These galaxies are located at a distance of about 5 billion light years. (Photo by NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz and the HFF Team, STScI):
16. Galaxy NGC 4696 in the constellation Centaurus. It is located 145 million light years from Earth. It is the brightest galaxy in the Centaurus cluster. The galaxy is surrounded by many dwarf elliptical galaxies. (Photo by NASA, ESA | Hubble, A. Fabian):
17. Located within the Perseus-Pisces galaxy cluster, the galaxy UGC 12591 attracts the attention of astronomers with its unusual shape - it is neither lenticular nor spiral, that is, it shows signs characteristic of both classes.
The star cluster UGC 12591 is relatively massive - its mass, as scientists were able to calculate, is about four times higher than that of our own Milky Way.
At the same time, the galaxy of a unique shape also changes its spatial position very quickly, while at the same time rotating around its axis at an abnormally high speed. Scientists have yet to figure out the reasons for such a high rotational speed of UGC 12591 around its axis. (Photo by ESA | Hubble & NASA):
18. How many stars! It is the center of our Milky Way, 26,000 light-years away. (Photo by ESA | A. Calamida and K. Sahu, STScI and the SWEEPS Science Team | NASA):
19. Minkowski Nebula 2-9 or simply PN M2-9. The characteristic shape of the petals of the PN M2-9 nebula is most likely due to the movement of these two stars around each other. It is believed that a white dwarf is rotating in the system, causing the expanding shell of the larger star to form wings or petals instead of simply expanding like a uniform sphere. (Photo by ESA, Hubble & NASA, Acknowledgment: Judy Schmidt):
20. Planetary Nebula The Ring is located in the constellation Lyra. This is one of the most famous and recognizable examples of planetary nebulae. The Ring Nebula looks like a slightly elongated ring around the central star. The radius of the nebula is about a third of a light year. If the nebula expanded continuously, maintaining its current speed of 19 km/s, then its age is estimated to be between 6,000 and 8,000 years. (Photo by NASA, ESA, and C. Robert O'Dell, Vanderbilt University):
21. Galaxy NGC 5256 in the constellation Ursa Major. (Photo by ESA | Hubble, NASA):
22. Open cluster 6791 in the constellation Lyra. Among the faintest stars in the cluster are a group of white dwarfs that are 6 billion years old, and another group that is 4 billion years old. The ages of these groups are distinguished from the typical age of 8 billion years for the cluster as a whole. (Photo NASA, ESA):
23. The famous Pillars of Creation. These are clusters ("elephant trunks") of interstellar gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula, about 7,000 light-years from Earth. The Pillars of Creation - the remains of the central part of the gas-dust nebula Eagle in the constellation Serpens, consist, like the whole nebula, mainly of cold molecular hydrogen and dust. Under the influence of gravity in a gas and dust cloud, clumps are formed, from which stars can be born. The uniqueness of this object is that the first four massive stars (NGC 6611) (these stars are not visible in the photograph itself), which appeared in the center of the nebula about two million years ago, scattered its central part and a section from the Earth side. (Photo by NASA, ESA | Hubble and the Hubble Heritage Team):
24. The Bubble Nebula in the constellation Cassiopeia. The "bubble" was formed as a result of stellar wind from a hot massive star. The nebula itself is part of a giant molecular cloud located 7,100 to 11,000 light-years from the Sun. (Photo by NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team):
