We present you a selection of images taken using the orbital Hubble telescope. It has been in the orbit of our planet for more than twenty years and continues to this day to reveal to us the secrets of space.
(Total 30 photos)
Known as NGC 5194, this big galaxy with a well-developed spiral structure, it 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.
2 Spiral Galaxy M33
Spiral galaxy M33 is a medium-sized galaxy in 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 close to Milky Way, her angular dimensions more than twice the size of the full moon, i.e. it is perfectly visible with good binoculars.
3. Stephen's Quintet
The group of galaxies is Stefan'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 coloration and curved loops and tails, the shape of which is caused by 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.
4 Andromeda Galaxy
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.
5 Lagoon Nebula
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.
6. Nebula Cat's Eye (NGC 6543)
The Cat's Eye Nebula (NGC 6543) is one of the most famous planetary nebulae in the sky. Her memorable symmetrical shapes are seen in the center of this spectacular false color image, specially manipulated to show a huge but very faint halo of gaseous substance, about three light-years across, that surrounds a bright, familiar planetary nebula.
7. Small constellation Chameleon
The small constellation Chameleon is located near south pole Peace. 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.
8. Nebula Sh2-136
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. It is over two light-years across and is visible even in infrared light.
9 Horsehead Nebula
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.
10 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 - neutron star with a mass equal to the mass of the Sun, which fits into an area the size of a small town.
11. Mirage from a gravitational lens
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. distant galaxy, however, in the case of a very precise superimposition 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.
12. 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.
13. Birth of planets
How are planets formed? To try to 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.
14. 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 it is shaped like that in a small telescope. Others simply refer to it as "The Sculptor Galaxy" because it lies within the southern constellation Sculptor. This dusty galaxy is 10 million light-years away.
16. 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.
17. 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 also has the designations M57 and NGC 6720. The Ring Nebula belongs to the class of planetary nebulae, it gas clouds, which are thrown out by stars similar to the Sun at the end of their lives. Its size exceeds the diameter. This is one of the earliest images of Hubble.
18. 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 7,500 light-years away.
19. Center of 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 random blue stars. If suddenly two stars collide, then one more massive star can form, or they form a new binary system.
20. A giant cluster distorts and splits the image of the galaxy
Many of them are images of a single unusual, bead-like, blue ring galaxy that happens to be 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.
21. 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.
22. 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
23. 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.
24. Supernova
An image of a supernova that exploded in 1994 on the outskirts of a spiral galaxy.
25. Two colliding galaxies with merged spiral arms
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.
26. Spiral galaxy NGC 3521
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 spiral arms irregular shape, adorned with dust, pinkish star-forming regions and clusters of young bluish stars.
27. Jet structure details
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.
28. 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 see almost edge-on.
29. 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.
30. Nebula IRAS 05437+2502
What illuminates the nebula IRAS 05437+2502? So far, there is no definitive 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. 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.
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The planet we live on is incredibly beautiful. But who among us has not wondered, looking into the starry sky: what would life be like in other solar systems in our Milky Way galaxy or in others? So far, we don't even know if there is life there. But when you see this beauty, you want to think that it is not just like that, that everything makes sense, that if the stars light up, then someone needs it. The Antenna Galaxy was formed as a result of the merger of two galaxies, which began several hundred million years ago. The antenna is located at a distance of 45 million light years from our solar system. Two jets energized by the gas flow are ejected from the poles of the young star.
You can indulge right after looking at these amazing photos space phenomena in the Universe.1
Galaxy Antenna
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young star
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Nebula Horsehead
The Horsehead Nebula, dark in optical light, appears transparent and ethereal in infrared, shown here, with visible hues.
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Bubble Nebula
The picture was taken in February 2016 with the Hubble Wide Space Telescope.The nebula is 7 light-years across, about 1.5 times farther than our sun is from its nearest stellar neighbor, Alpha Centauri, and lies 7,100 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Cassiopeia.
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Nebula Snail
The Helix Nebula is a flaming, gaseous envelope formed by the death of a sun-like star. The cochlea consists of two gaseous disks almost perpendicular to each other, and is located 690 light-years away, and is one of the closest planetary nebulae to Earth.
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Jupiter's moon - Io
Io is Jupiter's closest moon.Io is about the size of our moon and orbits Jupiter.1.8 days, while our Moon revolves around the Earth every 28 days.The black spot on Jupiter is striking - this is the shadow of Io, whichfloats across the face of Jupiter at a speed of 17 kilometers per second.
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NGC 1300
Barred spiral galaxy NGC 1300 aboutdiffers from normal spiral galaxies in that the arms of the galaxy do not grow all the way to the center, but are connected to the two ends of a straight bar of stars containing a core at its center.The core of the large spiral structure of the galaxy NGC 1300 shows its own unique grand spiral structure design that is about 3300 light years away.The galaxy is far away from usabout 69 million light years in the direction of the constellation Eridanus.
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Nebula cat's eye
Nebula cat's eye- one of the first discovered planetary nebulae, and one of the most complex, in observable space.The planetary nebula is formed when sun-like stars carefully eject their outer gaseous layers, which form bright nebulae with amazing and complex structures..
The Cat's Eye Nebula is located 3,262 light-years from our solar system.
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Galaxy NGC 4696
NGC 4696 is the largest galaxy in the Centaurus cluster.New Hubble images show the dusty filaments around the center of this vast galaxy in more detail than ever before.These filaments twist inward in an intriguing spiral shape around a supermassive black hole.
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Star cluster Omega Centauri
The globular star cluster Omega Centauri contains 10 million stars and is the largest of the approximately 200 globular clusters orbiting our Milky Way Galaxy. Omega Centauri is located at a distance of 17,000 light years from Earth.
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Galaxy Penguin
Galaxy Penguin.From our point of view, considered by Hubble, this pair of interacting galaxies resembles a penguin guarding its egg. NGC 2936, once a standard spiral galaxy, is deformed and borders on NGC 2937, a smaller elliptical galaxy.The galaxies lie about 400 million light years in the constellation Hydra.
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Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula
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. The nebula is located at a distance of 7,000 distant light years from us.
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Abell Galaxy Cluster S1063
This image of Hubble is a very chaotic universe filled with distant and nearby galaxies.Some are distorted like a curved mirror due to the curvature of space, a phenomenon first predicted by Einstein a hundred years ago.At the center of the image is the huge galaxy cluster Abell S1063, located 4 billion light-years away.
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Whirlpool Galaxy
The graceful, twisting arms of the majestic spiral galaxy M51 appear like a grand spiral staircase hurtling through space. These are actually long lanes of stars and gas, saturated with dust.
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Star nursery in the Carina Nebula
Billowing clouds of cold interstellar gas and dust rise from the raging Stellar Nursery, located 7,500 light-years away in the Southern constellation of Carina.This pillar of dust and gas serves as an incubator for new stars.Hot, young stars and blurring clouds create this fantastic landscape, sending out stellar winds and scorching ultraviolet light.
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Sombrero galaxy
The hallmark of the Sombrero Galaxy is a brilliant white core surrounded by a thick layer of dust that forms spiral structure galaxies. The Sombrero lies at the southern edge of the Virgo Cluster and is one of the most massive objects in this group, equivalent to 800 billion suns.The galaxy is 50,000 light years and is located 28 million light years from Earth.
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Butterfly Nebula
What resemble graceful butterfly wings are actually boilers of gas heated to more than 36,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The gas is rushing through space at more than 600,000 miles per hour. A dying star that was once about five times the mass of the Sun is at the center of this fury. The Butterfly Nebula is located in our Milky Way galaxy, about 3,800 light-years away in the constellation Scorpio.
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crab nebula
Pulse in the core of the Crab Nebula. While many other images of the Crab Nebula have focused on filaments in the outer part of the nebula, this image shows the very heart of the nebula including the central neutron star - the rightmost of the two bright stars near the center of this image. A neutron star has the same mass as the sun, but is compressed into an incredibly dense sphere several kilometers in diameter. Rotating 30 times per second, the neutron star releases beams of energy, which makes it appear to pulsate. The Crab Nebula lies 6,500 light-years away in the constellation of Taurus.
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Pre-planetary nebula IRA 23166+1655
One of the finest geometric shapes created in space, this image shows the formation of an unusual pre-planetary nebula known as IRA 23166+1655 around the star LL Pegasi in the constellation Pegasus.
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Nebula Retina
Dying star, IC 4406 shows a high degree symmetry; the left and right halves of the Hubble image are almost mirror images of the other. If we could fly around IC 4406 in spaceship, we would see the gas and dust form a vast donut from a substantial outward flow from dying star. From Earth, we view the donut from the side. This side view allows us to see the intricate tendrils of dust that have compared to the retina of the eye. The nebula lies about 2,000 light-years away, near the southern constellation Lupus.
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Monkey Head Nebula
NGC 2174 is 6,400 light-years distant from us in the constellation Orion. The colorful region is filled with young stars encased in bright wisps of cosmic gas and dust. This part of the Monkey Head Nebula was captured in 2014 by Hubble Camera 3.
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Spiral Galaxy ESO 137-001
This galaxy looks strange. One side of it looks like a typical spiral galaxy, while the other side seems to be destroyed. The bluish streaks that stretch down and out from the galaxy are clusters of hot young stars trapped in jets of gas. These shreds of matter will never return to the bosom of the parent galaxy. Like a huge fish with its belly torn open, the galaxy ESO 137-001 plows through space, losing its insides.
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Giant tornadoes in the Lagoon Nebula
This image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows long interstellar ‘tornadoes’ — eerie tubes and twisted structures — at the heart of the Lagoon Nebula, which lies 5,000 light-years in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius.
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Gravity lenses in Abell 2218
This rich cluster of galaxies is made up of thousands of individual galaxies and lies about 2.1 billion light-years from Earth in the Northern constellation Draco. Astronomers use gravitational lenses as powerful magnifications for distant galaxies. Strong gravitational forces not only enhance the images of hidden galaxies, but also distort them into long, thin arcs.
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Hubble's farthest position
Each object in this image is a separate galaxy made up of billions of stars. This view of nearly 10,000 galaxies is the deepest image of the cosmos. Called "Extreme Outer Position" (or Hubble's Ultra-Deep Field) by Hubble, this image represents a "deep" core sample of the universe shrinking across billions of light-years. The image includes galaxies of various ages, sizes, shapes and colors. The smallest, reddest galaxies may be among the most distant ones that have existed since the universe was only 800 million years old. The closest galaxies—larger, brighter, well-defined spirals and ellipticals—thrived about 1 billion years ago, when the cosmos was 13 billion years old. In stark contrast, along with a host of classic spiral and elliptical galaxies, there is a zoo of bizarre galaxies that litter the area. Some look like toothpicks; others are like a link on a bracelet.
In ground-based photographs, a section of the sky in which galaxies live (just one tenth of the diameter full moon) is mostly empty. The image required 800 exposures taken during Hubble's 400 orbits around the Earth. The total exposure amount was 11.3 days spent between September 24, 2003 and January 16, 2004.
Let's take a look at the best images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope
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1. Galactic fireworks.
2. Center of the lenticular galaxy Centaurus A (NGC 5128). This bright galaxy is located by space standards very close to us - "only" 12 million light-years away.
3. Dwarf galaxy Large Magellanic Cloud. The diameter of this galaxy is almost 20 times smaller than the diameter of our own galaxy, the Milky Way.
4. Planetary nebula NGC 6302 in the constellation Scorpio. This planetary nebula has two more beautiful names: the Beetle Nebula and the Butterfly Nebula. A planetary nebula is formed when a star similar to our Sun dies and sheds outer layer gas.
5. Reflecting nebula NGC 1999 in the constellation Orion. This nebula is a giant cloud of dust and gas that reflects starlight.
6. Luminous nebula of Orion. You can find this nebula in the sky just below Orion's belt. It is so bright that it is clearly visible even to the naked eye.
7. Crab Nebula in the constellation Taurus. This nebula was formed as a result of a supernova explosion.
8. Nebula cone NGC 2264 in the constellation Monoceros. This nebula is part of a system of nebulae surrounding the star cluster.
9. Planetary Nebula Cat's Eye in the constellation Draco. The complex structure of this nebula has posed many mysteries to scientists.
10. Spiral galaxy NGC 4911 in the constellation Coma Berenices. This constellation contains a large cluster of galaxies called the Coma Cluster. Most of the galaxies in this cluster are elliptical.
11. Spiral galaxy NGC 3982 from the constellation Ursa Major. On April 13, 1998, a supernova exploded in this galaxy.
12. Spiral galaxy M74 from the constellation Pisces. There are suggestions that there is a black hole in this galaxy.
13. Eagle Nebula M16 in the constellation Serpens. This is a fragment of the famous photograph taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, called the Pillars of Creation.
14. Fantastic images of distant space.
15. Dying star.
16. Red giant B838. In 4-5 billion years, our Sun will also become a red giant, and in about 7 billion years, its expanding outer layer will reach Earth's orbit.
17. Galaxy M64 in the constellation Coma Berenices. This galaxy arose as a result of the merger of two galaxies rotating in different directions. That's why inner part galaxy M64 rotates in one direction, and its peripheral part - in the other.
18. Mass birth of new stars.
19. Eagle Nebula M16. This column of dust and gas at the center of the nebula is called the Fairy region. The length of this pillar is approximately 9.5 light years.
20. Stars in the Universe.
21. Nebula NGC 2074 in the constellation Dorado.
22. Triplet of galaxies Arp 274. This system includes two spiral galaxies and one irregular shape. The object is in the constellation Virgo.
23. Sombrero Galaxy M104. In the 1990s, it was found that there is a black hole of enormous mass at the center of this galaxy.
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 - applications great amount, 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 bring you a selection of the 50 most interesting photos, made with 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 more 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 
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Mysterious nebulae that are millions of light years away, the birth of new stars and the collision of galaxies. Part 2 of a selection of the best photos from the Hubble Space Telescope. The first part is located.
This is the part carina nebulae. The total diameter of the nebula is over 200 light years. Located 8,000 light-years from Earth, the Carina Nebula can be seen in the southern sky with the naked eye. It is one of the brightest regions in the Galaxy:
Hubble ultra-long-range field (WFC3 camera). Composed of gas and dust:
Another photo Carina Nebulae:
By the way, let's get acquainted with the culprit of today's report. This Hubble telescope in space. Placement of the telescope in space makes it possible to register electromagnetic radiation in the ranges in which earth atmosphere 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.
The Discovery shuttle, which launched on April 24, 1990, launched the telescope into its intended orbit the next day. The total cost of the project, according to an estimate for 1999, amounted to 6 billion dollars from the American side and 593 million euros were paid by the European Space Agency.
Globular cluster in the constellation Centaurus. It is located at a distance of 18,300 light years. Omega Centauri belongs to our Milky Way galaxy and is its largest globular cluster known on this moment. It contains several million stars. The age of Omega Centauri is estimated at 12 billion years:
Nebula Butterfly ( NGC 6302) - planetary nebula in the constellation Scorpio. It has one of the most complex structures among the known polar nebulae. central star of the nebula one of the hottest in the galaxy. The central star was discovered by the Hubble telescope in 2009:
The largest in solar system. Along with Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, Jupiter is classified as a gas giant. Jupiter has at least 63 moons. Mass of Jupiter 2.47 times the total mass of all the other planets of the solar system combined, 318 times the mass of our Earth and about 1,000 times less than the mass of the Sun:
Some more images Carina Nebulae:
Part of a galaxy - a dwarf galaxy located at a distance of about 50 kiloparsecs from our Galaxy. This distance is less than twice the diameter of our Galaxy:
And yet the photographs Carina Nebulae one of the most beautiful
Spiral Galaxy Whirlpool. It is located at a distance of about 30 million light years from us in the constellation Canis Hounds. The diameter of the galaxy is about 100 thousand light years:
The Hubble Space Telescope has taken amazing images of the planetary nebula retina, which was formed from the remains of the dying star IC 4406. Like most nebulae, the Retina Nebula is almost perfectly symmetrical, its right half is almost a mirror image of the left. In a few million years, only a slowly cooling white dwarf will remain of IC 4406:
M27 is one of the brightest planetary nebulae in the sky and can be seen with binoculars in the constellation Vulpecula. Light has been traveling to us from M27 for about a thousand years:
It looks like puffs of smoke and sparks from fireworks, but it's actually debris from a star exploding in a nearby galaxy. Our Sun and the planets in the solar system formed from similar debris that appeared after a supernova explosion billions of years ago in the Milky Way galaxy:
In the constellation Virgo at a distance of 28 million light years from Earth. The Sombrero Galaxy got its name from the protruding central part (bulge) and the rib of dark matter, giving the galaxy a resemblance to a sombrero hat:
The exact distance to it is unknown, according to various estimates, it can be from 2 to 9 thousand light years. Width 50 light years. The name of the nebula means "divided into three petals":
Nebula Snail NGC 7293 in the constellation Aquarius at a distance of 650 light years from the Sun. One of the closest planetary nebulae and was discovered in 1824:
Located in the constellation Eridanus, 61 million light-years from Earth. The size of the galaxy itself is 110,000 light years, which is slightly larger than our galaxy, the Milky Way. NGC 1300 is unlike some spiral galaxies, including our Galaxy, in that there is no massive black hole in its core:
Dust clouds in our Milky Way galaxy. Our galaxy, the Milky Way, also known simply as the Galaxy (with capital letter) is a giant spiral star system in which our solar system is located. The diameter of the Galaxy is about 30,000 parsecs (about 100,000 light years) with an estimated average thickness of about 1,000 light years. The Milky Way contains, at the lowest estimate, about 200 billion stars. In the center of the Galaxy, apparently, there is a supermassive black hole:
On the right, above, these are not fireworks, this is a dwarf galaxy - a satellite of our Milky Way. It is located at a distance of about 60 kiloparsecs in the constellation Tucana:
Formed during the collision of four massive galaxies. This is the first case of visualization of this phenomenon, captured by combining images. The galaxies are surrounded by hot gas, which is shown in different colors depending on its temperature: reddish purple is the coldest, cyan is the hottest:
It is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest planet in the solar system after Jupiter. Today, all four gaseous giants are known to have rings, but Saturn's are the most prominent. The rings of Saturn are very thin. With a diameter of about 250,000 km, their thickness does not reach even a kilometer. The mass of the planet Saturn is 95 times the mass of our Earth:
In the constellation Golden Fish. The nebula belongs to the satellite galaxy of the Milky Way - the Large Magellanic Cloud:
Measuring 100 thousand light years and located at a distance of 35 million light years from the Sun:
And a bonus shot. From the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 00 hours 12 minutes 44 seconds Moscow time today, June 8, 2011, ship successfully launched Soyuz TMA-02M. This is the second flight of the spacecraft of the new, "digital" series Soyuz-TMA-M. Nice start:
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