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Space images thread

Close-up of the central regions of the starburst galaxy NGC 253

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Youthful Globular Cluster NGC 362

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A 'radio color' view of the sky above a 'tile' of the Murchison Widefield Array radio telescope, located in outback Western Australia. Milky Way is visible as a band across the sky. Red indicates the lowest frequencies, green the middle frequencies and blue the highest frequencies.

GaLactic and Extragalactic All-sky MWA, or 'GLEAM' is a large-scale, high-resolution survey of the radio sky observed at frequencies from 70 to 230 MHz, observing radio waves that have been travelling through space - some for billions of years.

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Each dot is a galaxy, with around 300000 radio galaxies observed as part of the GLEAM survey.
 
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This time-lapse movie of the Crab Nebula, made from NASA Hubble Space Telescope observations, reveals wave-like structures expanding outward from the "heart" of an exploded star. The waves look like ripples in a pond. The heart is a neutron star, it has about the same mass as the Sun but is squeezed into an ultra-dense sphere that is only a few miles across and 100 billion times stronger than steel. This surviving relic is a tremendous dynamo, spinning 30 times a second. The wildly whirling object produces a deadly magnetic field that generates an electrifying 1 trillion volts.

The rapidly spinning neutron star is visible in the image as the bright object just below center. The bright object to the left of the neutron star is a foreground or background star. The movie is assembled from 10 Hubble exposures taken between September and November 2005 by the Advanced Camera for Surveys.

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This mosaic shows 18 quasars. Each observed quasar is surrounded by a bright gaseous halo. It is the first time that a survey of quasars shows such bright halos around all of the observed quasars.
 
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Galaxies IC 2163 (left) and NGC 2207 (right) grazed past each other, triggering a tsunami of stars and gas in IC 2163 and producing the dazzling eyelid-like features there. ALMA image of carbon monoxide (orange), which revealed motion of the gas in these features, is shown on top of Hubble image (blue) of the galaxy pair.
 
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Galaxy NGC 1222

Astronomers think that it's in the process of swallowing up two much smaller dwarf galaxies that strayed too close to it.

Against the smooth background of old stars that was the original lenticular galaxy, we can clearly see dark filaments of dust and bright filaments of gas, both associated with the powerful star formation process.
 
That fucking image cache bug or whatever it is just ruined all images, I guess I won't be posting images anymore. Only videos:

Star Cluster Westerlund 2 & Veil Supernova Remnant [4K UHD]


 
New observations with ALMA contain compelling evidence that two newborn planets, each about the size of Saturn, are in orbit around a young star known as HD 163296. These planets, which are not yet fully formed, revealed themselves by the dual imprint they left in both the dust and the gas portions of the star's protoplanetary disk.

 
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This time-lapse movie of the Crab Nebula, made from NASA Hubble Space Telescope observations, reveals wave-like structures expanding outward from the "heart" of an exploded star. The waves look like ripples in a pond. The heart is a neutron star, it has about the same mass as the Sun but is squeezed into an ultra-dense sphere that is only a few miles across and 100 billion times stronger than steel. This surviving relic is a tremendous dynamo, spinning 30 times a second. The wildly whirling object produces a deadly magnetic field that generates an electrifying 1 trillion volts.

The rapidly spinning neutron star is visible in the image as the bright object just below center. The bright object to the left of the neutron star is a foreground or background star. The movie is assembled from 10 Hubble exposures taken between September and November 2005 by the Advanced Camera for Surveys.

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This is the best a ever seen! thank you!!
 
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Located in our Galaxy ~ 5500 ly from us, NGC 6357 is actually a "cluster of clusters," containing at least 3 clusters of young stars, including many hot, massive, luminous stars.

There are bubbles [cavities], that have been created by radiation and material blowing away from the surfaces of massive stars, plus supernova explosions.
 
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Bright spiral galaxy NGC 4707, lurking in the constellation of Canes Venatici, roughly 22 million ly from Earth.

Its overall shape, center, and spiral arms are very loose and undefined, and its central bulge is either very small or non-existent.
 
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Four Milky-Way-like progenitor galaxies (Top-left: ZFOURGE CDFS 467; Top-right: ZFOURGE CDFS 4409; Bottom-left: ZFOURGE CDFS; Bottom-right: ZFOURGE CDFS 6497) as seen as they would have appeared 9 billion years ago. ALMA observations of carbon monoxide (red) is superimposed on images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope. The carbon monoxide would most likely be suffused throughout the young galaxies.
 
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