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10 Amazing Space Pictures
Here are 10 of my favorite space shots.
These are my my picks of 10 great space pictures. These are things like nebula’s and dying stars. Most of these have been captured by the Hubble telescope, a satellite orbiting earth. The thing that fascinates me most about the pictures is that these amazing things happened billions of years ago, it has taken that long for his image to travel to us.
The fox-fur nebula
It is a formation of gas and dust located in the constellation of Monoceros. This is only a small part of the cloud; the cone nebula is also part of it. It is caused by Hydrogen gas that emits its own light by the radiation coming from the blue stars of the cluster.
The spiral galaxy m74
There are many spiral galaxies out there including the m82 but this is my favourite one. It is located 32 million lights years away and is slightly smaller than our galaxy, the Milky Way.
V838 monocerotis
I picked this because its looks awesome and beautiful. The star experienced a major outburst in 2002.Some people think it is a typical NOVA eruption, but some think it is completely different.
The crab nebula
Properly the most well known nebula. Located about 6,500 light years from earth, this amazing nebula is a supernova explosion.
Mira-a real shooting star
Mira is a giant red star that leaves a trail of material as it travels though space. Layers of Hydrogen gas is left behind causing its tail to glow. Its tail is 13 light years long!
Messier 83
This picture was taken by NASA’s Galaxy evolution explorer. It is the closest and brightest spiral galaxy and is visible though binoculars
The Sombrero Galaxy
This Galaxy is easily seen and is one of the most photographed galaxies. It has a dust lane around the central black hole.
NGC 604
It is an H ii region (a cloud of glowing gas and plasma), located in the Triangulum Galaxy. It is roughly 2.7 million light years away from Earth
Arp 87
It is a pair of interacting galaxies NGC 3808A and NGC 3808B, located 300 million light years from earth in the Leo constellation.
The Ant nebula
It is a cloud of dust and gas which lies only 3,000-6,000 light years away from earth in our galaxy.
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Great Pictures.
Actually M31 (the Andromeda Galaxy), not M83, is the nearest spiral galaxy, and it too is visible through binoculars (in fact it’s just visible to a good naked eye in a dark sky). I suppose it is the brightest too, but I’d have to check the Starry Night planetarium program’s data base. But M83 (as I recall) is one of the brightest in terms of “surface brightness” — more bright stars are shining in less area than usual.
Small point: these objects are thousands or at most millions, not billions, of light-years away. We still are seeing events that happened long ago, unless there’s something fundamentally wrong (as some have suggested) about our current understanding of space-time.
P.S.: Are you sure that the photo under NGC 604 isn’t rather the magnificent Tarantula Nebula in the Great Magellenic Cloud? That’s what it reminds me of. I don’t think any telescope we yet have can photograph a nebula with such clarity in the much more distant Triangulum Galaxy. You should be able to compare photos on Space.com, on NASA’s Hubble site, etc.