Starstruck Image of Irregular Galaxy Arp 263 | Hubble

Starstruck Image of Irregular Galaxy Arp 263 | Hubble

The irregular galaxy Arp 263 lurks in the background of this image from the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope, but the view is dominated by a stellar photobomber; the bright star BD+17 2217. Arp 263—also known as NGC 3239—is a patchy, irregular galaxy studded with regions of recent star formation, and astronomers believe that its ragged appearance is due to its having formed from the merger of two galaxies. It lies around 25 million light-years away in the constellation Leo.

Image Description: An irregular galaxy that appears like a triangle-shaped patch of tiny stars. It is densest in the center and along one edge, growing faint out to the opposite corner. Several bright pink patches mark areas of star formation, and the galaxy’s brightest stars are around these. A large, bright star, with two sets of long spikes, stands between the viewer and the galaxy.

The interloping foreground star, BD+17 2217, is adorned with two sets of criss-crossing diffraction spikes. The interaction of light with Hubble’s internal structure means that concentrated bright objects such as stars are surrounded by four prominent spikes. Since this image of BD+17 2217 was created using two sets of Hubble data, the spikes from both images surround this stellar photobomber. The spikes are at different angles because Hubble was at different orientations when it collected the two datasets.

Two different Hubble investigations into Arp 263, using two of Hubble’s third-generation instruments, contributed data to this image. The first investigation was part of an effort to observe the sites of recent supernovae, such as the supernova SN 2012A that was detected just over a decade ago in Arp 263. Astronomers used Hubble’s powerful Wide Field Camera 3 to search for lingering remnants of the colossal stellar explosion. The second investigation is part of a campaign using Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys to image all the previously unobserved peculiar galaxies in the Arp catalogue, including Arp 263, in order to find promising subjects for further study using the James Webb Space Telescope.

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)/Hubble & NASA, J. Dalcanton, A. Filippenko 

Release Date: July 17, 2023

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The Cocoon Nebula IC 5146 Close-up

The Cocoon Nebula IC 5146 Close-up

The Cocoon Nebula (designated IC 5146 or Sh2-125) is a reflection/emission nebula of about 15 light-years across that surrounds the young, open star cluster Collinder 470. It lies some 4,000 light-years away in the northern constellation of Cygnus (the Swan).

This stellar nursery combines an emission nebula of red, glowing, hydrogen gas and a reflection nebula, seen as blue, dust-reflected starlight at the edge of an otherwise invisible molecular cloud, cut by long, dark, dusty filaments where stars are forming.

The open cluster it surrounds is made up of mostly young, hot stars which clear out a cavity in the molecular cloud’s star forming dust and gas. One of them, the bright star near the center of this nebula has a surface temperature of 30,000 to 35,000 degrees and is primarily responsible for lighting up the nebula. This star is likely only a few hundred thousand years old, while the two or three hundred other stars in the area have a range of ages averaging a million or so years, suggesting that several episodes of star formation took place in the region, continuing to the present day.

This view of the Cocoon Nebula traces remarkably subtle features within and surrounding the dusty stellar nursery. Surrounding the bright nebula is the end of a dark (absorption) nebula, Barnard 168, which separates the emission nebula from the surrounding starry background.

 

Image Credit: Adam Block

Image Date: Phillips 24-inch RCOS Telescope, Camera: SBIG STL11000

Location: Mount Lemmon Skycenter, University of Arizona

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Expedition 69 Crew Photos: June-July 2023 | International Space Station

Expedition 69 Crew Photos: June-July 2023 | International Space Station

The seven-member Expedition 69 crew poses for a portrait during dinner time inside the International Space Station's Unity module. From left are, Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev (Russia); NASA astronauts Frank Rubio and Stephen Bowen; Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev (Russia); United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Alneyadi; Roscosmos cosmonaut Dmitri Petelin (Russia); and NASA astronaut Woody Hoburg. June 10, 2023

NASA astronaut and Expedition 69 Flight Engineer Frank Rubio poses for a photo as he inspects blankets and blanket covers in crew quarters for future replacements. July 13, 2023

United Arab Emirates Flight Engineer Sultan Alneyadi poses for a selfie while taking photos of Earth. July 11, 2023

United Arab Emirates astronaut and Expedition 69 Flight Engineer Sultan Alneyadi peers into the International Space Station while working inside the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft. June 23, 2023

United Arab Emirates astronaut and Expedition 69 Flight Engineer Sultan Alneyadi is pictured in between a pair of spacesuits while working on hardware maintenance inside the Quest airlock. July 6, 2023

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Expedition 69 Crew (July 2023)

Station Commander: Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (Russia)

Roscosmos (Russia): Flight Engineers Dmitri Petelin & Andrey FedyaevSpaceX Dragon cargo vehicle approaches International Space Station

Flight Engineer Sultan Alneyadi of the United Arab Emirates (UAE)

NASA: Flight Engineers Frank Rubio, Stephen Bowen, Warren Hoburg

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Image Dates: June 10-July 13, 2023

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Expedition 69: New Earth & Station Views | International Space Station

Expedition 69: New Earth & Station Views | International Space Station

The Soyuz MS-23 crew ship and Prichal and Nauka modules

From top to bottom, the Soyuz MS-23 crew ship is docked to the Prichal docking module, which is attached to the Nauka multipurpose laboratory module. Other elements pictured, include the European robotic arm extending out from Nauka and an experiment airlock attached to a port on Nauka. July 7, 2023 

Clouds painted pink off the coast of Guatemala

Clouds are painted pink and white at orbital sunrise as the International Space Station orbited 259 miles above the coast of Guatemala. The Soyuz MS 23 spacecraft docked to the station s Prichal module can be seen to the right of the image. July 11, 2023

Laguna Verde, Chile's high-altitude lake in the Andes mountains

Laguna Verde, a high-altitude lake in the Andes mountains of Chile near the world's highest volcano Ojos del Salado, is pictured from the International Space Station as it orbited 264 miles above. July 7, 2023

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Expedition 69 Crew (July 2023)

Station Commander: Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (Russia)

Roscosmos (Russia): Flight Engineers Dmitri Petelin & Andrey Fedyaev

Flight Engineer Sultan Alneyadi of the United Arab Emirates (UAE)

NASA: Flight Engineers Frank Rubio, Stephen Bowen, Warren Hoburg

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

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Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Image Dates: July 7-11, 2023

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The Cocoon Nebula IC 5146: Three Views

The Cocoon Nebula IC 5146: Three Views

IC 5146, commonly known as the Cocoon Nebula, glows red due to hydrogen gas being illuminated by the young interior stars. It is about 4,000 light years away and about 15 light years across. Informally known as the 'little Trifid Nebula' and the 'Cocoon Nebula', Sh2-82 is a relatively small emission nebula (seen as red) surrounded by a blue reflection nebula. A long dust lane runs diagonally through the image, blocking the light of most of the stars behind it.

Image 1 Credit: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Adam Block

Image 1 Info: This image was taken as part of Advanced Observing Program (AOP) program at Kitt Peak Visitor Center in 2014.

Release Date: June 7, 2014

Image 2 Credit: T.A. Rector (University of Alaska Anchorage) and H. Schweiker (WIYN and NOIRLab/NSF/AURA)

Image 2 Info: This image was obtained with the wide-field view of the Mosaic camera on the Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. The image was generated with observations in B (blue), V (green), I (orange) and Hydrogen-Alpha (red) filters. In this image, North is right, East is up.

Release Date: June 30, 2020

Image 3 Credit: Uwe Kamin

Image 3 Info: Montage HaR VO3B, 70 R V et B de 3 minutes, 65 Ha et, 35 O3 de 5 minutes

Exposition totale: 18H50

Lunette Askar FRA 600

Réducteur 0.79

Focale 420mm à F3.9

Imageur ZWO ASI2600MM Pro

Roue à Filtre ZWO 7*36MM

Filtre Baader L, R, V, B ,S2, Ha et O3

Monture EQ6 Pro

Guidescope UltraGuide MKII 60mm ARTESKY

Camera Guidage ASI ZWO 224MC

Sky Quality 19.95

Magnitude CLASS 5 Bortle

Image Date: July 16, 2023

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The Dolphin Head Nebula: Sh2-308

The Dolphin Head Nebula: Sh2-308

Sh2-308, also designated as Sharpless 308, RCW 11, or LBN 1052, and commonly known as the Dolphin-Head Nebula, is an H II region located near the center of the constellation Canis Major, composed of ionized hydrogen. It is about 8 degrees south of Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky. The nebula is bubble-like and surrounds a Wolf–Rayet star named EZ Canis Majoris. This star is in the brief, pre-supernova phase of its stellar evolution. 

Blown by fast winds from a hot, massive star, this cosmic bubble is huge. Sharpless 2-308 lies some 5,000 light-years away and covers slightly more of the sky than a Full Moon. This corresponds to a diameter of 60 light-years at its estimated distance. The massive star that created the bubble, a Wolf-Rayet star, is the bright one near the center of the nebula. Wolf-Rayet stars have over 20 times the mass of the Sun and are thought to be in a brief, pre-supernova phase of massive star evolution. Fast winds from this Wolf-Rayet star create the bubble-shaped nebula as they sweep up slower moving material from an earlier phase of evolution. The windblown nebula has an age of about 70,000 years. Relatively faint emission captured by narrowband filters in the deep image is dominated by the glow of ionized oxygen atoms mapped to a blue hue.

Image Credit & Copyright: Nik Szymanek

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Release Date: October 21, 2021

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Astronauta latino Frank Rubio conversa con el Caucus hispano del Congreso

Astronauta latino Frank Rubio conversa con el Caucus hispano del Congreso

El astronauta de la NASA conversó con el Caucus hispano del congreso de Estados Unidos mediante una conexión en vivo desde la Estación Espacial Internacional el 13 de julio de 2023. 

Exploration en Español | NASA

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Expedition 69 Crew (July 2023)

Station Commander: Sergey Prokopyev of Roscosmos (Russia)

Roscosmos (Russia): Flight Engineers Dmitri Petelin & Andrey Fedyaev

Flight Engineer Sultan Alneyadi of the United Arab Emirates (UAE)

NASA: Flight Engineers Frank Rubio, Stephen Bowen, Warren Hoburg

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Duration: 19 minutes

Release Date: July 14, 2023

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Nebula LHA 120-N150: A Massive Laboratory of Star Formation | Hubble

Nebula LHA 120-N150: A Massive Laboratory of Star Formation | Hubble

This image shows a region of space called LHA 120-N150. It is a substructure of the gigantic Tarantula Nebula. The latter is the largest known stellar nursery in the local Universe. The nebula is situated more than 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighboring dwarf irregular galaxy that orbits our Milky Way.

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)/Hubble, NASA, I. Stephens

Release Date: March 18, 2020

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Stellar Nursery LHA 120-N 159 in the Large Magellanic Cloud | Hubble

Stellar Nursery LHA 120-N 159 in the Large Magellanic Cloud | Hubble

This shot from the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope shows a maelstrom of glowing gas and dark dust within one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).

This stormy scene shows a stellar nursery known as N159, an HII region over 150 light-years across. N159 contains many hot young stars. These stars are emitting intense ultraviolet light, which causes nearby hydrogen gas to glow, and torrential stellar winds, which are carving out ridges, arcs, and filaments from the surrounding material.

N159 is located over 160,000 light-years away. It resides just south of the Tarantula Nebula, another massive star-forming complex within the LMC.

Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)/Hubble & NASA

Release Date: Sept. 5, 2016

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A Starry Superbubble Sh 2-305 | ESO

A Starry Superbubble Sh 2-305 | ESO

This gently glowing area of sky is actually a hot bubble of hydrogen gas—named Sh 2-305—that has been bombarded by intense radiation from nearby stars. Such gas clouds are known as emission nebulae, or HII regions (pronounced “H-two”). The radiation in question is in the ultraviolet part of the spectrum and is thought to emanate from at least two O-type stars, and likely several others. This stellar class is the brightest and hottest that we know of—such stars can be up to 90 times as massive as the Sun, and an incredible one million times as bright.

Together with five neighboring bubbles, Sh 2-305 belongs to a giant complex of dense clouds of dust and gas and, on a larger scale, an enormous ring called the GS234-02 star-forming supershell (located in the Perseus arm of the Milky Way, in the constellation of Puppis). 

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Release Date: March 29, 2021

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Wide-field View: Star-forming Region LHA 120–N 44 | ESO

Wide-field View: Star-forming Region LHA 120–N 44 | ESO

This visible-light wide-field image of the area around the star-forming region LHA 120–N 44 surrounding the star cluster NGC 1929, was created from photographs taken through red and blue filters and forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2. The superbubble appears close to the center and several other star formation regions are visible in the surrounding sky. The field of view is approximately three degrees across.

Lying within the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way, this region of star formation features a colossal superbubble of material expanding outwards due to the influence of the cluster of young stars at its heart that sculpts the interstellar landscape and drives forward the nebula’s evolution.

Distance: 170,000 light years

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO) and Digitized Sky Survey 2

Release Date: July 20, 2011

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Zooming in on a Superbubble in the Large Magellanic Cloud | ESO

Zooming in on a Superbubble in the Large Magellanic Cloud | ESO

This video sequence starts with a wide-field view of the southern Milky Way and the two Magellanic Clouds. As we zoom in, we can see many of the clusters and star formation regions within the Large Magellanic Cloud. In the final sequence we close in on one region, around the star cluster NGC 1929, which features a huge superbubble. This detailed view was captured by the FORS instrument on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile.

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/Digitized Sky Survey 2/R Gendler/S. Brunier

Duration: 1 minute

Release Date: Nov. 27, 2015

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Superbubble Complex N44 in the Large Magellanic Cloud | Gemini Observatory

Superbubble Complex N44 in the Large Magellanic Cloud | Gemini Observatory

Known as the N44 superbubble complex, this cloudy tempest is dominated by a vast bubble about 325 by 250 light-years across. A cluster of massive stars inside the cavern has cleared away gas to form a distinctive mouth-shaped hollow shell. While astronomers do not agree on exactly how this bubble has evolved, for as long as 10 million years, they do know that the central cluster of massive stars is responsible for the cloud’s unusual appearance. It is likely that the explosive death of one or more of the cluster’s most massive and short-lived stars played a key role in the formation of the large bubble. 

This image provides one of the most detailed views ever obtained of this relatively large region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to the Milky Way, located some 150,000 light-years away and visible from the Southern Hemisphere. The image captures light of specific colors that reveal the compression of material and the presence of gases (primarily excited hydrogen gas and lesser amounts of oxygen and “shocked” sulfur) in the cloud. Multiple smaller bubbles appear in the image as bulbous growths clinging to the central superbubble. 

Most of these regions were probably formed as part of the same process that shaped the central cluster. Their formation could also have been “sparked” by compression as the central stars pushed the surrounding gas outward. Our view into this cavern is believed to be like looking through an elongated tube, which gives the object its monstrous mouth-like appearance.

Credit: International Gemini Observatory

Release Date: Jan. 4, 2006

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Superbubble LHA 120-N 44 in the Large Magellanic Cloud | ESO

Superbubble LHA 120-N 44 in the Large Magellanic Cloud | ESO

The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) has been used to obtain this view of the nebula LHA 120-N 44 surrounding the star cluster. Lying within the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way, this region of star formation features a colossal superbubble of material expanding outwards due to the influence of the cluster of young stars at its heart that sculpts the interstellar landscape and drives forward the nebula’s evolution.

Distance: 170,000 light years

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/Manu Mejias

Release Date: July 20, 2011

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Red Bloom of The Gum Nebula above Cerro Tololo Observatory in Chile

Red Bloom of The Gum Nebula above Cerro Tololo Observatory in Chile

Below the southern skies, the telescopes of Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO), a Program of the National Science Foundation’s NOIRLab, bask in the starlight of the brilliant Milky Way. Speckled with multi-colored stars, our home galaxy in this image stretches down into the city-lit horizon, just grazing past the 4-meter Víctor M. Blanco Telescope (left) and the 1.5-meter SMARTS Telescope (right). 

The Small and Large Magellanic Clouds that accompany our home galaxy are seen to the left of the Blanco telescope. In between the telescopes blooms a deep shade of red that permeates through the tendrils of the Milky Way. This is the Gum Nebula, an emission nebula that blazes with the light of gas ionized by its host stars about 1,400 light years from Earth. From our perspective it holds a bountiful number of cosmic objects, from globular clusters, to the Vela Pulsar, and even to an 11,000-year-old supernova remnant.

Credit: CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA)/T. Slovinský

Image Date: June 14, 2023

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Comet C/2023 E1 ATLAS

Comet C/2023 E1 ATLAS

Comet C/2023 E1 (ATLAS) was just spotted in March 2023, another comet found by the NASA funded Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS). On July 1, 2023, this Comet ATLAS reached perihelion, its closest approach to the Sun. Days later the telescopic comet was captured in this frame sporting a pretty greenish coma and faint, narrow ion tail against a background of stars in the far northern constellation Ursa Minor. This comet's closest approach to Earth is still to come though. On August 18 this visitor to the inner Solar System will be a mere 3 light-minutes or so from our fair planet. Based on its inclination to the ecliptic plane and orbital period of about 85 years C/2023 E1 (ATLAS) is considered a Halley-type comet.

Image Credit & Copyright: Dan Bartlett

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https://www.astrobin.com/users/h2ologg/

Image Date: July 1, 2023

Release Date: July 14, 2023

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