Beautiful galaxy and space thread

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The Jupiter eye!!!!

 

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The Penguin and the Egg

This image of distant interacting galaxies, known collectively as Arp 142, bears an uncanny resemblance to a penguin guarding an egg. Data from NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes have been combined to show these dramatic galaxies in light that spans the visible and infrared parts of the spectrum.

The "penguin" part of the pair, NGC 2936, was probably once a relatively normal-looking spiral galaxy, flattened like a pancake with smoothly symmetric spiral arms. Rich with newly-formed hot stars, seen in visible light from Hubble as bluish filaments, its shape has now been twisted and distorted as it responds to the gravitational tugs of its neighbor. Strands of gas mixed with dust stand out as red filaments detected at longer wavelengths of infrared light seen by Spitzer.

The "egg" of the pair, NGC 2937, by contrast, is nearly featureless. The distinctly different greenish glow of starlight tells the story of a population of much older stars. The absence of glowing red dust features informs us that it has long since lost its reservoir of gas and dust from which new stars can form. While this galaxy is certainly reacting to the presence of its neighbor, its smooth distribution of stars obscures any obvious distortions of its shape.

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/pia22092/the-penguin-and-the-egg

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The Jupiter eye!!!!

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Layers of the Earths core.

Arp 240 is a pair of interacting spiral galaxies located in the constellation Virgo. The two galaxies are listed together as Arp 240 in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. The galaxy on the right is known as NGC 5257, while the galaxy on the left is known as NGC 5258. Both galaxies are distorted by the gravitational interaction, and both are connected by a tidal bridge, as can be seen in images of these galaxies.

 

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Sarychev Volcano eruption as seen from space.

 

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This Picture of the Week shows the unbarred spiral galaxy NGC 5033, located about 40 million light-years away in the constellation of Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs).

The galaxy is similar in size to our own galaxy, the Milky Way, at just over 100 000 light-years across. In contrast to the Milky Way NGC 5033 is missing a central bar. Instead it has a bright and energetic core called an active galactic nucleus, which is powered by a supermassive black hole. This active nucleus gives it the classification of a Seyfert galaxy.

https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1843a/

 

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beautiful !!!

 

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Horsehead Nebula

 

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Snow Cover on North America.



Sea Ice at Earth’s North Pole,

 

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Marathon Valley, Mars.

 

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300 miles above Earth’s surface — you might encounter an unfamiliar sight: vibrant swaths of red and green or purple and yellow light emanating from the upper atmosphere.

This light is airglow.

Airglow is created when atoms and molecules in the upper atmosphere, excited by sunlight, emit light to shed excess energy. Or, it can happen when atoms and molecules that have been ionized by sunlight collide with and capture a free electron.

Since sunlight is constant, airglow constantly shines throughout Earth’s atmosphere, and the result is a tenuous bubble of light that closely encases our planet. Its light is too dim to see easily except in orbit or on the ground with clear, dark skies and a sensitive camera

 

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M83, Thousand-Ruby Galaxy

 

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The Cat’s Paw Nebula, as seen by the Spitzer Space Telescope’s Infrared Array Camera and Multiband Imaging Photometer. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech



The Cat’s Paw Nebula, as seen by Spitzer’s Infrared Array Camera alone. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech



https://astronomynow.com/2018/10/23/spitzer-images-the-cats-paw-nebula-in-all-its-infrared-glory/

 

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Triangulum Galaxy by rvaorion on Flickr.

 

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I'm glad she has a gentle reminder of laundry when she comes back to Earth :1orglaugh

 

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I'm glad she has a gentle reminder of laundry when she comes back to Earth :1orglaugh