This picturesque view from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope peers into the distant universe to reveal a galaxy cluster called Abell 2537...
Showing posts with label Galaxies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Galaxies. Show all posts
Monday, December 4, 2017
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
Star Wanders Too Close to a Black Hole
This artist's rendering shows the tidal disruption event named ASASSN-14li, where a star wandering too close to a 3-million-solar-mass b...
Sunday, October 2, 2016
What is this meteor doing?
What is this meteor doing? Dynamically, the unusually short and asymmetric train may indicate that the sand-sized grain at the center of th...
Thursday, March 24, 2016
Close Comet, Magellanic Cloud
Sporting a surprisingly bright, lovely green coma Comet 252P/Linear poses next to the Large Magellanic Cloud in this southern skyscape. T...
Monday, March 21, 2016
NGC 3310, Spiral Galaxy
The party is still going on in spiral galaxy NGC 3310. Roughly 100 million years ago, NGC 3310 likely collided with a smaller galaxy caus...
Thursday, February 25, 2016
Two Black Holes Merge
Just press play to watch two black holes merge. Inspired by the first direct detection of gravitational waves by LIGO, this simulation vid...
Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Galactic Cannibalism
Large galaxies grow by eating small ones. Even our own galaxy practices galactic cannibalism, absorbing small galaxies that get too close ...
Monday, February 8, 2016
NGC 6357: Some of the most massive stars known in the galaxy
Massive stars lie within NGC 6357, an expansive emission nebula complex some 6,500 light-years away toward the tail of the constellation ...
Monday, February 1, 2016
What could cause a nebula to appear square?
What could cause a nebula to appear square? No one is quite sure. The hot star system known as MWC 922, however, appears to be embe...
Friday, January 29, 2016
Galaxy IC 342
Similar in size to large, bright spiral galaxies in our neighborhood, IC 342 is a mere 10 million light-years distant in the long-necked, ...
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
NGC 4631 is a spiral galaxy
NGC 4631 is a spiral galaxy found only 25 million light-years away, toward the well-trained northern constellation Canes Venatici. Seen e...
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