Celebrates its 23 th anniversary, the Hubble Space Telescope sends us into an incredibly beautiful journey through the universe.
With Hubble's people were able to overcome a distance of millions of light years to see what has never been available to the human eye. Previously unheard of distant galaxies and nebulae, stars are born and die amaze with its diversity, are pushing to dream of distant travels. Fabulous scenery of star dust and gas clouds offer us stunning in its beauty, the mysterious phenomenon.
Present to you the best pictures taken by space telescope, which to this day gives us the secrets of the space.
Horsehead Nebula
Hubble team annually produces stunning photos to celebrate the anniversary of the launch of the space telescope April 24, 1990. This time they presented to the world famous photograph of the nebula "Horse Head", which is in the constellation of Orion in 1500 light years from Earth
NGC 5194
This large galaxy may have been the original spiral nebula. It is clearly seen that her arms and dust lanes pass in front of a satellite galaxy (left). This pair is located about 31 million light years and officially belongs to the small constellation Canes Venatici.
Spiral Galaxy M33
The average-sized galaxy M33 is also called the Triangulum galaxy by the name of the constellation in which it is located. It is about 4 times smaller in radius than our Milky Way Galaxy and the Andromeda Galaxy. M33 is located close to the Milky Way, its angular size is twice the size of the full Moon, and it is perfectly visible in good binoculars.
Stephan's Quintet
This group of galaxies called Stephan's Quintet. However, only four galaxies in this group are located in three hundred million light-years away from us, participate in the cosmic dance, the converging, then moving away from each other. Excess find quite simple. The four interacting galaxies have a yellowish color and twisted loops and tails, the shape of which is due to the destructive influence of the gravitational tidal forces. A bluish galaxy, located on the top left of the picture is much closer than the others, just 40 million light-years away.
The Andromeda Galaxy
Andromeda galaxy - the closest to our own Milky Way of giant galaxies. Rather, our galaxy looks about the same as this one. Hundreds of billions of stars that make up the Andromeda galaxy, together give a diffuse glow visible. Individual stars in the image are actually stars in our galaxy, located much closer to the remote object.
The Lagoon Nebula
In the bright Lagoon Nebula is a wide variety of astronomical objects. Particularly interesting objects are bright open cluster of stars and a few active regions of star formation.
Cat's Eye Nebula
Cat's Eye Nebula - is one of the most well-known planetary nebulae in the sky. Its symmetrical shape memorable visible in the central part of this spectacular false color image, specially processed to show large but very faint halo of a gaseous substance, having a diameter of about three light years.
Constellation Chameleon
A small constellation Chameleon is located near the south pole of the World. Picture reveals the amazing features of modest constellation in which are found a lot of dust nebulae and colored stars. The field scattered blue reflection nebula.
The nebula Sh2-136
Cosmic dust clouds faintly illuminated by reflected starlight, hiding on the edge of the molecular cloud complex Halo Cephei, remote from us at 1200 light years.
The Crab Nebula
This is the mess left when a star explodes. The Crab Nebula is the result of a supernova explosion seen in 1054 AD. Supernova remnant is filled with mysterious filaments. The Crab Nebula is ten light years. In the center of the nebula is a pulsar - a neutron star with a mass equal to the mass of the Sun, which is only the size of a small town.
Mirage from the gravitational lens
This is a mirage from the gravitational lens. Depicted in this photograph bright red galaxies distorted by their gravitation light from more distant blue galaxy. Most often, such a distortion of light leads to the appearance of two images of the distant galaxy, but in the case of very precise overlay of the galaxy and the gravitational lens images are fused into a horseshoe - almost closed ring. This effect was predicted by Albert Einstein 70 years ago.
Star V838 Mon
For unknown reasons, in January 2002, the outer shell star V838 Mon suddenly expanded, making it the brightest star in the entire Milky Way. Then she also suddenly became weak. Astronomers have never seen such an outbreak.
Birth of Planets
How do planets form? To help find out, the Hubble Space Telescope was instructed to gaze at one of the most interesting of all the nebulae in the sky - the Great Nebula in Orion. The Orion Nebula can be seen with the naked eye near the belt of the constellation Orion. Tapping on this photo show numerous proplyds, many of them - is a stellar nursery, which are likely to be forming planetary systems.
Star cluster R136
In the center of the star forming region Doradus lies a huge cluster of the largest, hottest, massive of all known stars. These stars form a cluster, captured in this image.
Galaxy Silver Dollar
Shiny NGC 253 is one of the brightest spiral galaxies that we see, and at the same time one of the most dusty. Some call it "Silver Dollar Galaxy." Others call it simply "the galaxy in Sculptor," because it is located within the southern constellation Sculptor. This dusty galaxy located 10 million light-years away from us.
Galaxy M83
One of the closest spiral galaxy to us. With the distance that separates us from it, equal to 15 million light-years away, it looks completely normal. However, if we look in more detail at the center of M83 with the largest telescopes, this area is brought before us turbulent and noisy place.
The Ring Nebula
She really looks like a ring in the sky. Therefore, even hundreds of years ago, astronomers call this nebula according to its unusual shape. It belongs to the class of planetary nebulae. This is a cloud of gas that emit stars like the Sun at the end of his life. One of the earliest pictures Hubble.
Pillar and Jets in the Carina Nebula
This cosmic pillar of gas-dust has two light-years wide. The structure is one of the largest regions of star formation in our galaxy, the Carina Nebula, which is visible in the southern sky and distant from us at 7500 light years.
Center of the globular cluster Omega Centauri
In the center of the globular cluster Omega Centauri star packed in ten thousand times denser than in the solar neighborhood. The image shows many faint yellow-white stars, less than our sun, a few orange red giants, as well as random blue stars. If all of a sudden two stars collide, it can form a more massive star, or they form a new binary system.
Giant cluster distorts the image of the galaxy and cleaves
This is an image of a single unusual, like a necklace, a ring-shaped blue galaxies, which by chance was located behind a giant cluster of galaxies. According to recent studies, only the image can be found at least 330 separate images of distant galaxies. This gorgeous photo was obtained Hubble Space Telescope in November 2004.
Trifid Nebula
Colorful Trifid lets you explore space contrasts. Also known as M20, is located about 5,000 light-years away in the nebula rich constellation Sagittarius. The size of the nebula - about 40 light-years.
Centaurus A
A fantastic bunch of young blue star clusters, gigantic glowing gas clouds and dark dust lanes surrounds the central region of the active galaxy Centaurus A. Centaurus A is close to the Earth at a distance of 10 million light-years.
Butterfly Nebula
Bright clusters and nebulae in the night sky of the planet Earth are often given names by the names of plants and insects, and the nebula NGC 6302 is no exception. The central star of a planetary nebula is exceptionally hot: the temperature of the surface is about 250,000 degrees Celsius.
Supernova
Image of a supernova that exploded in 1994 on the outskirts of a spiral galaxy.
Two colliding galaxies merged with spiral arms
On this wonderful cosmic portrait shows two galaxies colliding with fused spiral arms. Above and to the left of a large spiral galaxy can be seen a third galaxy, which is also likely to be involved in the interaction. All of these galaxies are located at a distance of about 450 million light-years away in the galaxy cluster in Hercules. At this distance the image spans over 150,000 light-years. And although this type seems to be very unusual, scientists now know that the collision and subsequent merger of galaxies are not uncommon.
Spiral Galaxy NGC 3521
The spiral galaxy NGC 3521 is located at a distance of only 35 million light-years away in the constellation of Leo. The galaxy extends over 50,000 light-years, has such features as ragged spiral arms of irregular shape, decorated with dust, pink star forming regions, and bluish cluster of young stars.
Sombrero Galaxy
Kind of reminds of the galaxy M104 hat, and so it is called the Sombrero galaxy. In the picture show distinct dark dust lanes and bright halo of stars and globular clusters. The reasons that the Sombrero galaxy is like a hat - an unusually large central bulge star and dense dark dust lanes that are in the disk of the galaxy that we see nearly edge-on.
M17: close-up view
Formed by stellar winds and radiation, these fantastic, like a wave of education are in the Omega Nebula and come in star-forming region. The Omega Nebula is located in the nebula rich constellation Sagittarius and removed to a distance of 5500 light years. Wispy accumulation of dense and cold gas and dust illuminated by radiation of stars in the image at the top right, in the future they may be places where star formation.
Nebula IRAS 05437 2502
It is unknown what this highlights the nebula. Especially puzzling is a bright arc in the shape of an inverted V, which outlines the top of the mountain-like clouds of interstellar dust located near the center of the image. In general, this resembles a ghost nebula involves a small star forming region filled with dark dust. It was first seen in images obtained IRAS satellite in infrared light in 1983. Here's a wonderful, recently published an image obtained by the Hubble Space Telescope. While at it, and seen a lot of new parts, the cause of the bright, clear arcs could not be established.
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