Hubble stars. Classified photographs of the Hubble orbital telescope (3 photos)
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The planet we live on is extraordinarily 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’s there for a reason, that everything makes sense, that if the stars light up, it means someone needs it. The Antennae Galaxy was formed as a result of the merger of two galaxies, which began several hundred million years ago. The antenna is located 45 million light years from our solar system. Two jets of energized gas flow are ejected from the poles of the young star.
You can indulge yourself immediately after watching these stunning photographs of cosmic phenomena in the Universe.1
Galaxy Antenna
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Young star
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Horsehead Nebula
The Horsehead Nebula, dark in optical light, appears transparent and ethereal in infrared, shown here, with visible tints.
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Bubble Nebula
The image was taken in February 2016 using the Hubble Space Telescope.The nebula is 7 light-years across—about 1.5 times the distance from our sun to its nearest stellar neighbor, Alpha Centauri—and lies 7,100 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cassiopeia.
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Helix Nebula
The Helix Nebula is a flaming envelope of gas formed by the death of a sun-like star. The helix 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 satellite.Io is about the size of our Moon and orbits Jupiterase1.8 days, while our Moon orbits the Earth every 28 days.Conspicuous black spot on Jupiter 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
Blocked spiral galaxy NGC 1300 odiffers from normal spiral galaxies in that the arms of the galaxy do not grow all the way into the center, but are connected to the two ends of a straight bar of stars containing the core at its center.The core of the major spiral structure of the galaxy NGC 1300 shows its own unique grand spiral structure design, which is about 3,300 light years away.The galaxy is distant from usapproximately 69 million light years in the direction of the constellation Eridanus.
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Cat's Eye Nebula
Cat's Eye Nebula- one of the first planetary nebulae discovered, and one of the most complex, in observable space.A planetary nebula forms when sun-like stars carefully extract 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 images from Hubble show the dust filaments around the center of this huge galaxy in more detail than ever before.These filaments curl inward in an intriguing spiral shape around the supermassive black hole.
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Omega Centauri star cluster
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 17,000 light years from Earth.
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Galaxy Penguin
Galaxy Penguin.From our Hubble perspective, this pair of interacting galaxies resembles a penguin guarding its egg. NGC 2936, once a standard spiral galaxy, is deformed and borders NGC 2937, a smaller elliptical galaxy.The galaxies lie about 400 million light years away in the constellation Hydra.
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Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula
The Pillars of Creation - the remnants of the central part of the gas-dust Eagle Nebula in the constellation Serpens, consist, like the entire nebula, mainly of cold molecular hydrogen and dust. The nebula is located 7,000 distant light years away.
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Abell Galaxy Cluster S1063
This Hubble image shows a very chaotic Universe filled with galaxies far and near.Some are distorted like a distorted mirror due to the curvature of space, a phenomenon first predicted by Einstein a century ago.At the center of the image is the enormous galaxy cluster Abell S1063, located 4 billion light-years away.
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Whirlpool Galaxy
The graceful, sinuous arms of the majestic spiral galaxy M51 appear as a great spiral staircase rushing through space. They are actually long lanes of stars and gas, saturated with dust.
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Stellar nurseries 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 Carina.This pillar of dust and gas serves as an incubator for new stars.Hot, young stars and eroding clouds create this fantastic landscape, sending out stellar winds and scorching ultraviolet light.
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Galaxy Sombrero
The distinctive feature of the Sombrero Galaxy is its brilliant white core, surrounded by a thick layer of dust, forming the spiral structure of the galaxy. Sombrero lies on the southern edge of the Virgo Cluster and is one of the most massive objects in the group, equivalent to 800 billion suns.The galaxy is 50,000 light years across and located 28 million light years from Earth.
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Butterfly Nebula
What resemble graceful butterfly wings are actually cauldrons of gas heated to more than 36,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The gas rushes 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, approximately 3,800 light-years away in the constellation Scorpio.
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Crab Nebula
Pulse at 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 that make it appear to pulsate. The Crab Nebula is located 6,500 light years away in the constellation Taurus.
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Preplanetary nebula IRA 23166+1655
One of the most beautiful geometric shapes created in space, this image shows the formation of an unusual preplanetary nebula known as IRA 23166+1655 around the star LL Pegasi in the constellation Pegasus.
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Retina Nebula
Dying star, IC 4406 shows 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 gas and dust forming a vast donut of substantial outflow directed outward from the dying star. From Earth, we view the donut from the side. This side view allows us to see tangled tendrils of dust that have been compared to the retina of the eye. The nebula is located about 2,000 light years away, near the southern constellation Lupus.
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Monkey Head Nebula
NGC 2174 is located 6,400 light years away in the constellation Orion. The colorful region is filled with young stars trapped 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 appears to be destroyed. The bluish stripes stretching down and to the sides from the galaxy are clusters of hot young stars trapped in jets of gas. These scraps of matter will never return to the bosom of the mother galaxy. Like huge fish With its belly ripped open, the galaxy ESO 137-001 roams space, losing its insides.
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Giant tornadoes in the Lagoon Nebula
This Hubble Space Telescope image 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 galaxy cluster consists of thousands of individual galaxies and is located about 2.1 billion light-years from Earth in the Northern constellation Draco. Astronomers use gravitational lenses to powerfully magnify distant galaxies. Strong gravitational forces not only magnify 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 an individual galaxy made up of billions of stars. This view of nearly 10,000 galaxies is the deepest image of the cosmos yet. Called Hubble's “Far Farthest Field” (or Hubble's Ultra-Deep Field), this image presents 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, existing since the universe was just 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 the many classic spiral and elliptical galaxies, there is a zoo of oddball galaxies littering the area. Some look like toothpicks; others are like a link on a bracelet.
In ground-based photographs, the area of the sky where the galaxies reside (merely one-tenth the diameter of a full moon) is mostly empty. The image required 800 exposures, taken over 400 Hubble orbits around the Earth. The total dwell time was 11.3 days spent between September 24, 2003 and January 16, 2004.
Mysterious nebulae, which are millions of light years away, the birth of new stars and collisions of galaxies. A selection of the best photographs from the Hubble Space Telescope in recent times.
1. Dark nebulae in a cluster of young stars. Shown here is a section of the Eagle Nebula star cluster, which formed about 5.5 million years ago and is located 6,500 light-years from Earth. (Photo ESA | Hubble & NASA):
2. The giant galaxy NGC 7049, located 100 million light years from Earth, in the constellation Indian. (Photo by NASA, ESA and W. Harris - McMaster University, Ontario, Canada):
3. The emission nebula Sh2-106 is located two thousand light years from Earth. It is a compact star-forming region. At its center is the star S106 IR, which is surrounded by dust and hydrogen - in the photograph it is colored Blue colour. (Photo by NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team, STScI | AURA, and NAOJ):
4. Abell 2744, also known as the Pandora Cluster, is a giant cluster of galaxies, the result of the simultaneous collision of at least four separate small clusters of galaxies that occurred over the course of 350 million years. The galaxies in the cluster make up less than five percent of its mass, and the gas (about 20%) is so hot that it glows only in X-rays. Mysterious dark matter makes up about 75% of the cluster's mass. (Photo by NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz, M. Mountain, A. Koekemoer, & the HFF Team):
5. “Caterpillar” and the Carina emission nebula (a region of ionized hydrogen) in the constellation Carina. (Photo by NASA, ESA, N. Smith, University of California, Berkeley, and The Hubble Heritage Team. STScI | AURA):
6. Barred spiral galaxy NGC 1566 (SBbc) in the constellation Doradus. It is located 40 million light years away. (Photo by ESA | Hubble & NASA, Flickr user Det58):
7. IRAS 14568-6304 is a young star located 2500 light years from Earth. This dark region is the Circinus molecular cloud, which has 250,000 solar masses and is filled with gas, dust and young stars. (Photo by ESA | Hubble & NASA Acknowledgments: R. Sahai | JPL, Serge Meunier):
8. Portrait of a star kindergarten. Hundreds of brilliant blue stars covered in warm, glowing clouds make up R136, a compact star cluster that lies at the center of the Tarantula Nebula.
The R136 cluster consists of young stars, giants and supergiants, estimated to be approximately 2 million years old. (Photo by NASA, ESA, and F. Paresce, INAF-IASF, Bologna, R. O"Connell, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, and the Wide Field Camera 3 Science Oversight Committee):
9. Spiral galaxy NGC 7714 in the constellation Pisces. Located at a distance of 100 million light years from Earth. (Photo by ESA, NASA, A. Gal-Yam, Weizmann Institute of Science):
10. The image taken by the orbiting Hubble Telescope shows the warm planetary Red Spider Nebula, also known as NGC 6537.
This unusual wave-like structure is located about 3,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius. A planetary nebula is an astronomical object consisting of an ionized shell of gas and a central star, a white dwarf. They are formed when the outer layers of red giants and supergiants with a mass of up to 1.4 solar masses are shed at the final stage of their evolution. (Photo by ESA & Garrelt Mellema, Leiden University, the Netherlands):
11. The Horsehead Nebula is a dark nebula in the constellation Orion. One of the most famous nebulae. She is visible as dark spot in the shape of a horse's head against a background of red glow. This glow is explained by the ionization of hydrogen clouds located behind the nebula under the influence of radiation from the nearest bright star (Z Orionis). (Photo by NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team, AURA | STScI):
12. This Hubble Space Telescope image shows the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 1433 in the constellation Hours. It is located at a distance of 32 million light years from us, and is a type of very active galaxy/ (Photo by Space Scoop | ESA | Hubble & NASA, D. Calzetti, UMass and the LEGU.S. Team):
13. A rare cosmic phenomenon is the Einstein ring, which occurs as a result of the fact that the gravity of a massive body bends electromagnetic radiation traveling towards the Earth from a more distant object.
Einstein's general theory of relativity states that the gravity of large cosmic objects such as galaxies bends the space around them and bends light rays. In this case, a distorted image of another galaxy appears - the source of light. The galaxy that bends space is called a gravitational lens. (Photo ESA | Hubble & NASA):
14. Nebula NGC 3372 in the constellation Carina. A large bright nebula that contains several open star clusters within its boundaries. (Photo by NASA, ESA, M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team, STScI):
15. Abell 370 is a cluster of galaxies at a distance of about 4 billion light years in the constellation Cetus. The cluster core consists of several hundred galaxies. It is the most distant cluster. These galaxies are located at a distance of about 5 billion light years. (Photo by NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz and the HFF Team, STScI):
16. Galaxy NGC 4696 in the constellation Centaurus. Located 145 million light years from Earth. It is the brightest galaxy in the Centaurus cluster. The galaxy is surrounded by many dwarf elliptical galaxies. (Photo by NASA, ESA | Hubble, A. Fabian):
17. Located within the Perseus-Pisces galaxy cluster, the UGC 12591 galaxy attracts the attention of astronomers with its unusual shape - it is neither lenticular nor spiral, that is, it exhibits features characteristic of both classes.
The star cluster UGC 12591 is relatively massive - its mass, as scientists have been able to calculate, is about four times higher than that of our Milky Way.
At the same time, the galaxy of a unique shape also very quickly changes its spatial position, at the same time rotating around its axis at an anomalously high speed. Scientists have yet to understand the reasons for such a high speed of rotation of UGC 12591 around its axis. (Photo ESA | Hubble & NASA):
18. How many stars! This is the center of our Milky Way, 26,000 light-years away. (ESA Photo | A. Calamida and K. Sahu, STScI and the SWEEPS Science Team | NASA):
19. Minkowski Nebula 2-9 or simply PN M2-9. The characteristic shape of the petals of the nebula PN M2-9 is most likely due to the movement of these two stars around each other. The system is thought to have a white dwarf spinning around it, causing the larger star's expanding shell to form wings or petals rather than simply expanding as a uniform sphere. (Photo by ESA, Hubble & NASA, Acknowledgment: Judy Schmidt):
20. The planetary ring nebula is located in the constellation Lyra. This is one of the most famous and recognizable examples of planetary nebulae. The Ring Nebula appears as a slightly elongated ring surrounding a central star. The radius of the nebula is about a third of a light year. If the nebula continuously expanded, maintaining its current speed of 19 km/s, then its age is estimated to be from 6000 to 8000 years. (Photo by NASA, ESA, and C. Robert O'Dell, Vanderbilt University):
21. Galaxy NGC 5256 in the constellation Ursa Major. (Photo by ESA | Hubble, NASA):
22. Open cluster 6791 in the constellation Lyra. Among the faintest stars in the cluster are a group of white dwarfs that are 6 billion years old and another group that is 4 billion years old. The ages of these groups stand out from the typical age of 8 billion years for the cluster as a whole. (Photo by NASA, ESA):
23. The famous Pillars of Creation. These are clusters (“elephant trunks”) of interstellar gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula, about 7,000 light-years from Earth. The Pillars of Creation - the remnants of the central part of the gas-dust Eagle Nebula in the constellation Serpens, consist, like the entire nebula, mainly of cold molecular hydrogen and dust. Under the influence of gravity, condensations are formed in the gas and dust cloud, from which stars can be born. The uniqueness of this object is that the first four massive stars (NGC 6611) (these stars are not visible in the photograph itself), which appeared in the center of the nebula about two million years ago, scattered its central part and the area on the Earth’s side. (Photo by NASA, ESA | Hubble and the Hubble Heritage Team):
24. The Bubble Nebula in the constellation Cassiopeia. The "bubble" was formed as a result of stellar wind from a hot, massive star. The nebula itself is part of a giant molecular cloud located at a distance of 7,100 - 11,000 light years from the Sun. (Photo by NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team):
Published: January 27, 2015 at 05:19
1. Abell 68's gravitational field surrounding this large group of galaxies serves as a natural cosmic lens that makes light coming from very distant galaxies behind the field brighter and larger. Reminiscent of a “distorted mirror” effect, the lens creates a fantastic landscape of arcing patterns and mirror reflections of rear galaxies. The closest group of galaxies is two billion light years away, and the images reflected through the lens come from galaxies that are even further away. In this photo above left, the image of the spiral galaxy has been stretched and mirrored. A second, less distorted image of the same galaxy is to the left of a large, bright elliptical galaxy. In the upper right corner of the photo is another amazing detail that is not related to the effect of gravitational lenses. What appears to be crimson liquid dripping from the galaxy is, in fact, a phenomenon called "tidal stripping." When a galaxy passes through a field of dense intergalactic gas, the gas that accumulates inside the galaxy rises and heats up. (NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage/ESA-Hubble Collaboration)
2. A clump of interstellar gas and dust, located at a distance of one light year, resembles a huge caterpillar. Towards the right edge of the photograph are obstacles - these are 65 of the brightest and hottest O-class stars known to us, located at a distance of fifteen light years from the clump. These stars, as well as another 500 less luminous but still bright class B stars, form the so-called “Association of Class OB2 Cygnus Stars.” The caterpillar-like clump, called IRAS 20324+4057, is a protostar in its earliest stages of development. It is still in the process of collecting material from the gas enveloping it. However, the radiation emanating from Cygnus OB2 destroys this shell. Protostars in this region will eventually become young stars with a final mass of about one to ten times the mass of our Sun, but if destructive radiation from nearby bright stars destroys the gas shell before the protostars gain the required mass, their final masses will be reduced. (NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team - STScI/AURA, and IPHAS)
3. This pair of interacting galaxies is collectively called Arp 142. These include the star-forming spiral galaxy NGC 2936 and the elliptical galaxy NGC 2937. The orbits of the stars in NGC 2936 were once part of a flat spiral disk, but due to gravitational connections with another galaxy has fallen into disarray. This disorder distorts the orderly spiral of the galaxy; interstellar gas swells into giant tails. Gas and dust from the interior of the galaxy NGC 2936 are compressed when colliding with another galaxy, which triggers the process of star formation. Elliptical galaxy NGC 2937 resembles a dandelion of stars with some gas and dust remaining. The stars inside the galaxy are mostly old, as evidenced by their reddish color. There are no blue stars there, which would prove the process of their recent formation. Arp 142 is located 326 million light years away in the southern hemisphere constellation Hydra. (NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team - STScI/AURA)
4. Star forming region Carina Nebula. What appears to be a cloud-shrouded mountain peak is actually a column of gas and dust three light years high, gradually being eaten away by light from nearby bright stars. The pillar, located about 7,500 light years away, is also collapsing from the inside as young stars growing inside it release gas vapors. (NASA, ESA, and M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team, STScI)
5. The beautiful petal-shaped steps of the galaxy PGC 6240 are captured in photographs taken by the Hubble Telescope. They are set against a sky full of distant galaxies. PGC 6240 is an elliptical galaxy located 350 million years away in the southern hemisphere constellation Hydra. In its orbit there are a large number of globular star clusters, consisting of both young and old stars. Scientists believe this is the result of a recent galactic merger. (ESA/Hubble and NASA)
6. Photo illustration of the brilliant spiral galaxy M106. This image of M106 only contains the internal structure around the ring and core. (NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team - STScI/AURA, and R. Gendler for the Hubble Heritage Team)
7. The globular star cluster Messier 15 is located about 35,000 light years away in the constellation Pegasus. It is one of the oldest clusters, about 12 billion years old. The photograph shows both very hot blue stars and cooler yellow stars swirling together, clustering most tightly around the cluster's bright center. Messier 15 is one of the densest globular star clusters. It was the first known cluster to reveal a planetary nebula with a rare type of black hole at its center. This photograph is compiled from Hubble telescope images in the ultraviolet, infrared and optical parts of the spectrum. (NASA, ESA)
8. The legendary Horsehead Nebula has been mentioned in astronomy books for over a century. In this panorama, the nebula appears in a new light, in the infrared. The nebula, unclear in optical light, now appears transparent and ethereal, but with a clear shadow. The illuminated rays around the upper dome are illuminated by the constellation Orion, a young five-star system visible near the edge of the photo. Powerful ultraviolet light from one of these bright stars is slowly dissipating the Nebula. Two forming stars emerge from their birthplace near the upper ridge of the Nebula. (NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team - STScI/AURA)
9. A snapshot of the young planetary nebula MyCn18 shows that the object has an hourglass shape with a pattern on the walls. A planetary nebula is the glowing remnant of a dying star like the Sun. These photos are very interesting because... they help to understand the hitherto unknown details of the ejection of stellar matter that accompanies the slow destruction of stars. (Raghvendra Sahai and John Trauger, JPL, the WFPC2 science team, and NASA)
10. The Stephen's Quintet galaxy group is located in the constellation Pegasus at a distance of 290 million light years. Four of the five galaxies are very close to each other. The brightest galaxy, NGC 7320, at the bottom left, appears to be part of the group, but in fact, it is 250 million light-years closer than the others. (NASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team)
11. The Hubble telescope captured Ganymede, a satellite of Jupiter, before it disappeared behind the huge planet. Ganymede orbits Jupiter in seven days. Ganymede, made of rock and ice, is the most... large satellite in our solar system; even more than the planet Mercury. But compared to Jupiter, the largest planet, Ganymede looks like a dirty snowball. Jupiter is so large that only part of its southern hemisphere fits in this photo. The Hubble image is so clear that astronomers can see features on Ganymede's surface, most notably the white Tros impact crater, and a system of rays, bright streams of material, shooting out from the crater. (NASA, ESA, and E. Karkoschka, University of Arizona)
12. Comet ISON circling the Sun before its destruction. In this photo, ISON appears to be flying around a huge number of galaxies behind and a small number of stars ahead. Discovered in 2013, the small lump of ice and rock (2 km in diameter) was hurtling toward the Sun to pass at a distance of about 1 million kilometers from the Sun. The gravitational forces were too strong for the comet, and it disintegrated. (NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team, STScI/AURA)
13. Light echo of the star V838 Monoceros. Shown here is a spectacular illumination of the surrounding dust cloud, called a light echo, that brightened for several years after the star suddenly shone for a few weeks in 2002. Illumination of the interstellar dust comes from the red supergiant star in the middle of the image, which suddenly erupted in light three years ago, like a light bulb turning on in a dark room. The dust surrounding V838 Monoceros may have been ejected from the star during a similar previous outburst in 2002. (NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team, STScI/AURA)
14. Abell 2261. The giant elliptical galaxy at the center is the brightest and most massive part of the galaxy cluster Abell 2261. Located at a distance of just over one million light years, the diameter of the galaxy is about 10 times the diameter of the Milky Way galaxy. The bloated galaxy is representative unusual looking galaxies with a diffuse core filled with a thick haze of starlight. Typically, astronomers assume that light is concentrated around a black hole at the center. Hubble observations show that the galaxy's swollen core, estimated at about 10,000 light-years across, is the largest ever seen. The gravitational influence on the light coming from galaxies located behind can make the image of photographs stretched or blurred, creating the so-called “gravitational lensing effect.” (NASA, ESA, M. Postman, STScI, T. Lauer, NOAO, and the CLASH team)
15. Antenna galaxies. Known as NGC 4038 and NGC 4039, these two galaxies are locked in a tight embrace. Once ordinary, quiet spiral galaxies like the Milky Way, the pair have spent the last few million years in such a violent collision that the stars torn out in the process have formed an arc between them. Bright pink and red clouds of gas surround bright flares from blue star-forming regions, some of which are partially obscured by dark streaks of dust. The frequency of star formation is so high that Antennae Galaxies are called places of constant star formation - in which all the gas inside the galaxies goes to create stars. (ESA/Hubble, NASA)
16. IRAS 23166+1655 is an unusual pre-planetary nebula, a celestial spiral around the star LL Pegasus. The spiral shape means that the nebula is formed in the usual way. The substance forming the spiral moves outward at a speed of 50,000 kilometers per hour; According to astronomers, its stages will separate from each other in 800 years. There is a hypothesis that the spiral will be reborn, because LL Pegasus is dual system, in which the star losing matter and a neighboring star begin to orbit each other. (ESA/NASA, R. Sahai)
17. Spiral galaxy NGC 634 was discovered in the 19th century by French astronomer Edouard Jean-Marie Stéphane. It is approximately 120,000 light years in size and lies in the constellation Triangulum at a distance of 250 million light years. Other, more distant galaxies can be seen in the background. (ESA/Hubble, NASA)
18. A small part of the Carina Nebula, a star-forming region located in the southern hemisphere constellation Carina at a distance of 7,500 light years from Earth. Young stars glow so brightly that the emitted radiation disrupts the surrounding gas, creating bizarre shapes. The dust clusters towards the top right corner of the photo, resembling a drop of ink in milk. It has been suggested that the forms of this dust are nothing more than cocoons for the formation of new stars. The brightest stars in the photo, those closest to us, are not parts of the Carina Nebula. (ESA/Hubble, NASA)
19. The bright Red Galaxy at the center has an unusually large mass, 10 times the mass of the Milky Way. The blue horseshoe shape is a distant galaxy that has been enlarged and distorted into an almost closed ring by the strong gravitational pull of the larger galaxy. This "Cosmic Horseshoe" is one of best examples Einstein rings - a "gravitational lens" effect with an ideal placement to bend light from distant galaxies into a ring shape around large nearby galaxies. The distant blue galaxy is approximately 10 billion light years away. (ESA/Hubble, NASA)
20. Planetary nebula NGC 6302, also known as the Butterfly Nebula, consists of seething pockets of gas heated to temperatures of 20,000 degrees Celsius. At the center is a dying star that was five times the mass of the Sun. She threw out her cloud of gases and is now emitting ultraviolet radiation, from which the ejected substance glows. Located 3,800 light-years away, the central star is hidden under a ring of dust. (NASA, ESA and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team)
21. Disk galaxy NGC 5866 is located at a distance of about 50 million light years from Earth. The dust disk runs along the edge of the galaxy, revealing its structure behind it: a faint reddish bulge surrounding a bright core; blue star disk and transparent outer ring. Galaxies that are even millions of light years away are also visible through the ring. (NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team)
22. In February 1997, Hubble separated from the Discovery shuttle, completing its work in orbit. This telescope, measuring 13.2 m and weighing 11 tons, had by that time spent about 24 years in low-Earth orbit, taking thousands of priceless photographs. (NASA)
23. The Hubble Ultra Deep Field. Almost none of the objects in this photo are within our Milky Way galaxy. Almost every stroke, dot or spiral is an entire galaxy consisting of billions of stars. In late 2003, scientists pointed the Hubble telescope at a relatively dim patch of sky and simply opened the shutter for about one million seconds (about 11 days). The result is called the Ultra Deep Field - a snapshot of more than 10,000 previously unknown galaxies visible in our small sky. No other photograph before has demonstrated the unimaginable vastness of our universe. (NASA, ESA, S. Beckwith, STScI and the HUDF Team)
Images taken at extremely long distances using the Hubble Space Telescope, which left Earth exactly 25 years ago. The deadline is no joke. In the first photo, the Horsehead Nebula has graced astronomy books since its discovery nearly a century ago. 
Jupiter's moon Ganymede is shown as it begins to disappear behind the giant planet. Consisting of rock and ice, the satellite is the largest in solar system, even larger than the planet Mercury.
Resembling a butterfly and appropriately called the Butterfly Nebula, it consists of hot gas with a temperature of about 20,000°C and moves through the universe at a speed of more than 950,000 km per hour. You can get from Earth to the Moon at this speed in 24 minutes.
The Cone Nebula, approximately 23 million high, travels around the Moon. The entire extent of the nebula is about 7 light years. It is believed to be an incubator for new stars.
The Eagle Nebula is a mixture of cooled gas and dust from which stars are born. The height is 9.5 light years or 57 trillion miles, twice as long as the distance from the Sun to the nearest star.
The bright southern hemisphere of the star RS Puppis is surrounded by a reflective cloud of dust, hued like a lampshade. This star has 10 times the mass of the Sun and is 200 times larger.
The pillars of creation are located in the Eagle Nebula. They are made of stellar gas and dust and are located 7,000 light years from Earth.
This is the first time such a clear image has been taken from a wide-angle lens of the M82 galaxy. This galaxy is notable for its bright blue disk, network of scattered clouds, and fiery hydrogen jets emanating from its center.
Hubble captured a rare moment of two spiral galaxies positioned on the same line: the first, small one, abuts the center of a larger one.
The Crab Nebula is a trace of a supernova, which was recorded by Chinese astronomers back in 1054. Thus, this nebula is the first astronomical object associated with a historical supernova explosion.
This beauty is the spiral galaxy M83, located 15 million light years from the nearest constellation, Hydra.
Sombrero Galaxy: stars located on the surface of the “pancake” and clustered in the center of the disk.
A pair of interacting galaxies called the Antennae. As the two galaxies collide, new stars are born, mostly in groups and star clusters.
The light echo of V838 Monoceros, a variable star in the constellation Monoceros, located about 20,000 light years away. In 2002, she survived an explosion, the cause of which is still unknown.
The massive star Eta Carinae, located in our native Milky Way. Many scientists believe it will soon explode to become a supernova.
A giant star-bearing nebula with massive star clusters.
The four moons of Saturn, taken by surprise as they pass by their "parent".
Two interacting galaxies: on the right is the large spiral NGC 5754, on the left is its younger companion.
The luminous remains of a star that went out thousands of years ago.
Butterfly Nebula: walls of compressed gas, stretched filaments, bubbling flows. Night, street, lantern.
Galaxy Black Eye. It is named so because of the black ring with seething inside that was formed as a result of an ancient explosion.
An unusual planetary nebula, NGC 6751. Glowing like an eye in the constellation Aquila, this nebula formed several thousand years ago from a hot star (visible at the very center).
Boomerang Nebula. The light-reflecting cloud of dust and gas has two symmetrical “wings” radiating from the central star.
Spiral Galaxy "Whirlpool". Winding arcs in which newborn stars live. In the center, where the old stars are better and more impressive.
Mars. 11 hours before the planet reached its record close range from Earth (August 26, 2003).
Traces of a dying star in the Ant Nebula
A molecular cloud (or "star cradle"; astronomers are unfulfilled poets) called the Carina Nebula, located 7,500 light years from Earth. Somewhere in the south of the constellation Carina
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On December 26, 1994, NASA's largest space telescope, Hubble, spotted a huge white city floating in space. The photographs, located on the telescope's web server, became available to Internet users for a short time, but were then strictly classified.
After deciphering a series of images transmitted from the Hubble telescope, the films clearly showed a large white city floating in space.
NASA representatives did not have time to turn off free access to the telescope’s web server, where all the images received from Hubble go for study in various astronomical laboratories.
At first it was just a small foggy speck in one of the frames. But when University of Florida professor Ken Wilson decided to take a closer look at the photograph and, in addition to Hubble optics, armed himself with a hand-held magnifying glass, he discovered that the speck had a strange structure that could not be explained either by diffraction in the lens set of the telescope itself, or by interference in communication channel when transmitting the image to Earth.
After a short operational meeting it was decided to reshoot the area indicated by Professor Wilson starry sky with the maximum resolution for Hubble. The huge multi-meter lenses of the space telescope focused on the farthest corner of the Universe accessible to the telescope. There were several characteristic clicks of the camera shutter, which were voiced by the prankster operator who voiced the computer command to capture the image on the telescope. And the “spot” appeared before the amazed scientists on the multi-meter screen of the projection installation of the Hubble control laboratory as a shining structure, similar to a fantastic city, a kind of hybrid of Swift’s “flying island” of Laputa and science-fiction projects of cities of the future.
A huge structure, stretching across many billions of kilometers in the vastness of Space, shone with an unearthly light. The Floating City was unanimously recognized as the Abode of the Creator, the place where only the throne of the Lord God could be located. A NASA representative stated that the City could not be inhabited in in the usual sense This word most likely contains the souls of dead people.
However, another, no less fantastic version of the origin of the cosmic City has a right to exist. The fact is that in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, the very existence of which has not even been questioned for several decades, scientists are faced with a paradox. If we assume that the Universe is massively populated by many civilizations at very different levels of development, then among them there must inevitably be some supercivilizations that not only went into space, but actively populated vast spaces of the Universe. And the activities of these supercivilizations, including engineering - to change the natural habitat (in this case, outer space and objects in the zone of influence) - should be noticeable at a distance of many millions of light years.
However, until recently, astronomers had not noticed anything like this. And now - an obvious man-made object of galactic proportions. It is possible that the City discovered by Hubble on Catholic Christmas at the end of the 20th century turned out to be exactly what we were looking for engineering structure unknown and very powerful extraterrestrial civilization.
The size of the City is amazing. Not a single celestial object known to us can compete with this giant. Our Earth in this City would be just a grain of sand on the dusty side of the cosmic avenue.
Where is this giant moving - and is it moving at all? Computer analysis of a series of photographs obtained from Hubble showed that the movement of the City generally coincides with the movement of the surrounding galaxies. That is, regarding the Earth, everything happens within the framework of the Big Bang theory. Galaxies “scatter”, the red shift increases with increasing distance, no deviations from the general law are observed.
However, during three-dimensional modeling of the distant part of the Universe, a shocking fact emerged: it is not part of the Universe that is moving away from us, but we are moving away from it. Why was the starting point moved to the City? Because it was precisely this foggy spot in the photographs that turned out to be the “center of the Universe” in the computer model. The volumetric moving image clearly demonstrated that the galaxies are scattering, but precisely from the point of the Universe in which the City is located. In other words, all galaxies, including ours, once emerged from precisely this point in space, and it is around the City that the Universe rotates. Therefore, the first idea of the City as the Abode of God turned out to be extremely successful and close to the truth.
