Official Space is Awesome Thread

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A Little Fireworks

 


 

Image: Alan Friedman

 

Full: [https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--ETR7Tijk--/c_fit,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/mqqjwytmmrcrtbmb9ytw.jpg](https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--ETR7Tijk--/c_fit,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/mqqjwytmmrcrtbmb9ytw.jpg "https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--ETR7Tijk--/c_fit,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_636/mqqjwytmmrcrtbmb9ytw.jpg")

 

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Statue of Liberty Nebula

 


 

Image: Ignacio Bobillo

 

Full: [https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--NJ3ly7br--/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_1600/efk162wsrze4fliuperr.jpg](https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--NJ3ly7br--/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_1600/efk162wsrze4fliuperr.jpg "https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--NJ3ly7br--/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_1600/efk162wsrze4fliuperr.jpg")

 

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Stellar Flower (Rosetta Nebula)

 


 

Image: Davy van der Hoeven

 

Full: [https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--xh-L5kIH--/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_1600/fzoivb3cwdftvdjlhow0.jpg](https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--xh-L5kIH--/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_1600/fzoivb3cwdftvdjlhow0.jpg "https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--xh-L5kIH--/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_1600/fzoivb3cwdftvdjlhow0.jpg")

 

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Saturn taken by Hubble

 


 

Image: NASA, ESA, A. Simon, and M.H. Wong

 

Full: [https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/CezGDwWwaU3R5woZEHyVf7.jpg](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/CezGDwWwaU3R5woZEHyVf7.jpg "https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/CezGDwWwaU3R5woZEHyVf7.jpg")

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These are still awesome. Thanks for posting!

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NGC 2275, a spiral galaxy located 67 million light years away in the constellation of Cancer.

Image: NASA/ESA (Hubble)

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A wonderful photo of Andromeda. The thing almost looks like CGI. Click on the image for full size.

 

 

Image: Nicolas Lefaudeux

 

 

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The northern lights in Norway. Click on the image for full size.

 

 

Image: Nicholas Roemmelt

 

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An incredible view of the surface of the Sun. Each convection cell is ~600 miles wide. Click on the image for full size.

 

 

Image: Alexandra Hart

 

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The Moon and Jupiter

 

 

Image: Lukasz Sujka

 

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NGC 1499, the California Nebula

 

 

Image: Bence Toth

 

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NGC 3628 with a 300,000 light-year long tail

 

 

Image: Mark Hanson

 

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The galaxy cluster Abell 2744 includes superheated gas that glows brightly in X-rays. The X-rays are seen in Chandra X-ray observatory data as blue clouds.

 

 

Image credit: NASA/CXC; Optical: NASA/STScI

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Supernova 1987A, an explosion that occurred on Feb. 24, 1987. The leading edge of the shockwave is roughly 4 light-years in diameter.

 

Image: Radio: ALMA/ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/P. Cigan/R. Indebetouw/NRAO/AUI/NSF/B. Saxton; X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/PSU/K. Frank et al.; Optical: NASA/STScI
 

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Eta Carinae is a potential supernova location in the future, as it hosts two massive stars orbiting one another and interacting chaotically through gravity and material.

 

Image: NASA/CXC; Ultraviolet/Optical: NASA/STScI; Combined Image: NASA/ESA/N. Smith (University of Arizona)/J. Morse (BoldlyGo Institute)/A. Pagan

 

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The Helix Nebula. A glimpse into the future of our Sun. In about 5 billion years, the Sun will run out of fuel to burn and its outer layers will peel off, leaving behind a core known as a white dwarf. 

 

Image: X-ray: NASA/CXC; Ultraviolet: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSC; Optical: NASA/STScI(M. Meixner)/ESA/NRAO(T.A. Rector); Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech/K. Su
 

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Jupiter as seen by Hubble

 

 

Image: NASA, ESA, STScI, A. Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center), M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley), and the OPAL team

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The Cartwheel Galaxy.

 

 

Image: X-ray: NASA/CXC; Optical: NASA/STScI

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The Crab Nebula, 6500 light-years from Earth. The supernova explosion was first seen in 1054. At it's center is a neutron star spinning once every 33 milliseconds. Imagine an object the size of Manhattan spinning ~30 times a second. This composite image combines data from five different telescopes: The VLA (radio) in red; Spitzer Space Telescope (infrared) in yellow; Hubble Space Telescope (visible) in green; XMM-Newton (ultraviolet) in blue; and Chandra X-ray Observatory (X-ray) in purple.

 

 

 

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The spiral galaxy NGC 2835 

 

Image: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Lee, and the PHANGS-HST Team Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt (Geckzilla)

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This streak of light is a small section of the Cygnus supernova blast wave, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. The blast came from a supernova explosion of a dying star with ~20 times more mass than our Sun.

 

Image: ESA/Hubble & NASA, W. Blair; CC BY 4.0; Acknowledgement: Leo Shatz
 

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NGC 2442, the Meathook Galaxy

 

 

Image: NGC 2442, nicknamed the Meathook Galaxy
 

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Globular star cluster 47 Tucanae. There are ~35,000 stars near the cluster's center. 

 

 

Image: NASA and Ron Gilliland (Space Telescope Science Institute)
 

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My oddest hobby is watching satellites fly by. I shared a website here earlier so one can find out when they'll pass. I'll share that again here later. I just love it....I'll be outside at night taking care of something around the house. And, if it's a clear night I'll look up and within minute or two I'll usually see a satellite pass by. One night I saw seven of them in a row, pass about a minute between each of them, on the same path. That must have been some sort of strange military space installation... 

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Another Hubble beauty

 

 

Image: NASA, ESA, A. Simon (GSFC), M.H. Wong (University of California, Berkeley) and the OPAL Team

 

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Spiral galaxy NGC 2275 is located 67 million light-years away in the constellation of Cancer.

 

 

Image: ESA/Hubble & NASA, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST Team; Acknowledgment: Judy Schmidt (Geckzilla)

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The Butterfly Nebula (NGC 6302) is located ~3,800 light-years away in the constellation of Scorpius. The nebula is ~2 light-years across.

 

 

Image: NASA, EDA and J. Kastner (RIT); CC BY 4.0

 

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Moonrise from the International Space Station

 

 

Image: NASA
 

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Two spiral galaxies, NGC 5426 and NGC 5427, are in the process of merging. It will take millions of years for the two to become one.

 

 

Image: ESO
 

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Another recent photo taken by Hubble. The two galaxies, NGC 2799 and NGC 2798, have formed a "waterspout" showing one galaxy pulling stars from the other.

 

 

Image: NASA/ESA