Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series A beautiful space photograph featuring the 7500 light year distant Carina Nebula. This Hubble image shows rich, interstellar gas clouds feeding the formation of new stars. As a proto star forms, the gas clouds get dragged to its surface and some gets emitted as tight jets of material travelling at hundreds of miles per second. These in turn help sculpt the gas clouds into weird and grotesque shapes, some looking like strange worms, swimming through space.more items with this imagemore items in the Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae seriesimage code: cnbigcImage credit: NASA, the Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI) and ESA #monogram #initials #star #galaxies #deep #space #astronomy #star #forming #activity #stellar #winds #young #hot #stars #carina #nebula #hubble #space #photography #outer #space #sculpture #hrbstslr #cnbigc #star #nurseries #gas #clouds
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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series Messier 106 (also known as NGC 4258) is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1781. M106 is at a distance of about 22 to 25 million light-years away from Earth. It is also a Seyfert II galaxy, which means that due to x-rays and unusual emission lines detected, it is suspected that part of the galaxy is falling into a supermassive black hole in the center.more items with this imagemore items in the Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae seriesimage code: m106cvImage credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), and R. Gendler (for the Hubble Heritage Team), J. GaBany #star #galaxies #outer #space #picture #deep #space #astronomy #hubble #galaxy #photography #supermassive #black #hole #spiral #arms #seyfert #ii #galaxy #constellation #canes #venatici #hunting #dog #stars #hrbstslr #m106cv #messier #106
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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series A gorgeous picture from the deep universe featuring the bubbling, seething mass of gas and dust that is the Orion Nebula, 1500 light years away and the closest star-forming region to us. The nebula is a star nursery in which there are birthing, new-born, young and adult stars. Look carefully in the brightest central region and you'll see the Trapezium, four of the most massive stars in Orion. more items with this imagemore items in the Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae seriesimage code: ornebcsfrImage credit: NASA, ESA, M. Robberto (Space Telescope Science Institute/ESA) and the Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team #new #born #stars #star #nursery #orion #nebula #emission #nebula #trapezium #stars #astronomy #images #outer #space #star #galaxies #deep #space #dust #clouds #hrbstslr #ornebcsfr #hot #young #stars
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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series A witch appears to be screaming out into space in this image from NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The infrared portrait shows the Witch Head nebula, named after its resemblance to the profile of a wicked witch. Astronomers say the billowy clouds of the nebula, where baby stars are brewing, are being lit up by massive stars. Dust in the cloud is being hit with starlight, causing it to glow with infrared light, which was picked up by WISE's detectors.The Witch Head nebula is estimated to be hundreds of light-years away in the Orion constellation, just off the famous hunter's knee.WISE was recently "awakened" to hunt for asteroids in a program called NEOWISE. The reactivation came after the spacecraft was put into hibernation in 2011, when it completed two full scans of the sky, as planned.more items with this imagemore items in the Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae seriesimage code: wtchnebImage credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech #monogram #initials #star #galaxies #outer #space #picture #deep #space #astronomy #wtchneb #witch #head #nebula #cursing #witch #nasa #space #photograph #faces #in #space #witches #curse #screaming #witch
