Since ancient times, man has sought to understand the unknown, letting his gaze up at the night sky, where literally millions of stars scattered. Scientists have always paid serious attention to the study of space and now they have the opportunity, with the help of powerful scientific equipment not only treat it, but also to make unique pictures. I invite you to enjoy the amazing pictures of space that have been made by them recently and found some interesting facts.
Separate Nebula Beautiful triple nebula NGC 6514 in the constellation Sagittarius. Title nebula suggested by William Herschel, and means "divided into three lobes." The exact distance to it is unknown, but estimates range from 2 to 9,000 light years away. NGC 6514 is at once of the three main types of nebulae - emission (pink color), reflective (blue) and absorption (black).
Space Elephant Trunk Nebula elephant's trunk winds through the emission nebula and young star cluster complex IC 1396 in the constellation Cepheus. Cosmic elephant's trunk is over 20 light-years. These dark clouds, similar to the whiskers contain material for the formation of new stars and hide protostars - the stars in the final stages of its formation - behind layers of cosmic dust.
World-ring Hoag's Object - a strange ring-shaped galaxy in the constellation Serpens, named in honor of otkryvatelya.Rasstoyanie to Earth is about 600 million light years away. In the center of the galaxy cluster is relatively old stars yellow. It is surrounded by a ring of little help younger stars with a blue tint. The diameter of the galaxy - about 100 thousand light years. Among the hypotheses on the origin of the collisions of galaxies, which occurred several billion years ago.
Moon over the Andromeda spiral galaxy large Andromeda galaxy, is only 2.5 million light-years away and is the closest to our own Milky Way spiral galaxy. It can be seen with the naked eye as a fuzzy little speck in the sky. This composite picture compares the angular size of the Andromeda Galaxy and the Moon.
The ever-changing surface of Io Jupiter's moon Io - the most volcanically active object in the solar system. Its surface is constantly changing because of the new lava flows. This photo is part of the satellite Io, turned to Jupiter, it is made up of pictures taken in 1996 by NASA spacecraft Galileo. The lack of impact craters due to the fact that all of Io's surface is covered by a layer of volcanic deposits much faster than the craters appear. The probable cause of the volcanic activity is changing gravitational tides caused immense Jupiter.
Cone Nebula near the Cone Nebula can be seen strange formations. They arise from the interaction of interstellar dust and gas, with the light coming from the young stars. The blue glow around the star S Mon - is a reflection of the radiation surrounding the bright star stardust. Star S Mon is in the open star cluster NGC 2264, located at a distance of 2,500 light-years from Earth.
Spiral Galaxy NGC 3370 Spiral Galaxy NGC 3370 lies about 100 million light-years away in the constellation of Leo. In size and structure, it is close to our own Milky Way.
Spiral Galaxy M74 This spiral galaxy is one of the photogenic. It consists of about 100 billion stars and is located about 32 million light-years away from us. Presumably in this galaxy is an intermediate-mass black hole (which is significantly more than stellar mass, but smaller black holes in the centers of galaxies)
The Lagoon Nebula is a giant interstellar cloud and H II region in the constellation Sagittarius. Located at a distance of 5,200 light years, the Lagoon Nebula is one of two zvezdoformiruyuschih nebulae faintly visible to the naked eye in the middle latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere. Near the center of the Lagoon is a bright area "hourglass" - the result of the interaction of turbulent stellar winds and intense radiation.
Band appears in the Pelican Nebula is well visible in the sky, the band appears to IC 5067 is part of the large emission nebula Pelican with a characteristic form. Strip length - about 10 light-years, it outlines the head and neck space pelican. Located at a distance of about 2,000 light-years away from us.
Thundercloud This beautiful photo was taken in the south of the province of Alberta in Canada. This removes the rain cloud, at the proximal edge of the projections showed unusual characteristic vymeobraznyh clouds, and from the far edge of the rain clouds. Also read the article "Rare clouds."
Three bright nebula in Sagittarius Lagoon Nebula M8 to the left of the image center, M20 - colored nebula on the right. The third nebula, NGC 6559, is located just above the M8 and separated from it by a dark stripe stardust. All of them are at a distance of about 5,000 light-years away from us.
Galaxy NGC 5195: a question mark Dwarf galaxy NGC 5195 in the constellation Canes Dogs are well known as a small companion spiral galaxy M51 - The Whirlpool Galaxy. Together they look like a cosmic question mark, which is the point of NGC 5195. Lies about 30 million light-years from Earth.
Amazing expanding crab This Crab Nebula, located away from us 6,500 light-years away in the constellation Taurus - supernova remnant, the expanding cloud of matter remaining after the explosion of a huge star. The current size of the nebula - about 10 light-years, and it is expanding at a rate of about 1000 km / s
Variable star RS Pup is - one of the most important stars in the sky. One of the reasons, she happened to be surrounded by the dazzling reflection nebula. The brightest star in the center - a throbbing RS Puppis. It is almost 10 times more massive than the Sun is 200 times larger, and its brightness on average 15,000 times more solar, and changes the brightness of RS Pup is almost five times every 41.4 days. RS Pup is located at a distance of about a quarter of the way between the Sun and the center of the Milky Way, at a distance of 6500 St.. years from Earth.
Ocean Planet Gliese 1214b exoplanet (sverhzemlya) in the constellation Ophiuchus. First discovered planet ocean, it revolves around a dim red dwarf star GJ 1214. The planet is close enough to Earth (13 parsecs or approximately 40 light-years), and as the transits across the disk of the star, its atmosphere can be studied in detail using current technologies. One year on the planet lasts for 36 hours. planet's atmosphere is composed of dense steam with small amounts of helium and hydrogen. However, given the high temperature on the surface of the planet (about 200 degrees Celsius), scientists believe that the water on the planet is in such exotic states as "hot ice" and "superfluid water", which are not found on Earth. Age of the planetary system is estimated at several billion years. The planet's mass is about 6.55 Earth masses, while at the same time exceeds the diameter of the planet earth more than 2.5 times. This picture shows how the artist imagines sverhzemli Gliese 1214b passing across the disk of its parent star.
Stardust in South Corona Here visible clouds of cosmic dust that are on the star field near the border of the constellations of Southern Crown. They are less than 500 light-years away and block the light from the more distant stars of the Milky Way. In the center of the image is located a few reflection nebulae.
Abell 1689 cluster of galaxies Abell 1689 - a cluster of galaxies in the constellation Virgo. This is one of the biggest and most massive clusters of galaxies known, is a gravitational lens, distorting the light of galaxies that are behind it. Needless cluster located at a distance of 2.2 billion light-years (670 Mpc) from the Earth.
Pleiades Open Cluster in the constellation Taurus, is sometimes referred to as the "Seven Sisters", one of the closest and one of the most visible to the naked eye star clusters. Perhaps the best known star cluster in the sky. Pleiades star cluster is about 12 light-years in diameter and contains about 1,000 stars. The total mass of stars in the cluster is estimated to be about 800 mass of our Sun.
Shrimp Nebula In south of Antares, in the wake of the nebula rich constellation Scorpio, is an emission nebula IC 4628. Hot massive stars, whose age is only a few million years, illuminate the nebula invisible ultraviolet light. Astronomers call this cosmic cloud nebula shrimp.
