Robert McNeesNov 20, 2022
Former spiral galaxies NGC 4038 and NGC 4039 –– the Antennae Galaxies –– are a few hundred million years into a merger that will result in a single, elliptical galaxy.
ImageL: ESA/Hubble & NASA
Show threadRobert McNeesNov 20, 2022
The globular cluster NGC 1866 in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
Image: ESA/Hubble & NASA
https://esahubble.org/images/potw1847a/
Different generations

Different generations

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Show threadRobert McNeesNov 23, 2022
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field is a patient stare into a tiny patch of sky in the constellation Fornax. Over 11 days of exposure revealed 10,000 galaxies, including some of the oldest known.

Almost every dot, smudge, and whorl of light in the image is a galaxy. (There are a few stars in there – you can spot them by their diffraction spikes.) The deepest red ones are galaxies that probably formed when the Universe was less than a billion years old.

Image: NASA, ESA, S. Beckwith (STScI), HUDF Team
Show threadRobert McNeesNov 27, 2022

The Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of the Lagoon Nebula for its 28th anniversary in 2018. The image shows a region about 4 light years across; the entire nebula is roughly 55 light years high by 20 light years wide.

The Lagoon Nebula is a bit over 4000 light years away. The light in this image left the nebula around the same time the Middle Kingdom period in Egypt was getting underway.

Image: NASA, ESA, STScI
https://esahubble.org/images/heic1808a/

Hubble's 28th birthday picture: The Lagoon Nebula

Hubble's 28th birthday picture: The Lagoon Nebula

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Show threadRobert McNeesNov 27, 2022
Hubble, the Spitzer Space Telescope, and the Chandra X-ray Observatory all contributed to this multi-wavelength image of our galactic center, made for the International Year of Astronomy back in 2009.
Image: NASA, ESA, SSC, CXC and STScI
Show threadRobert McNeesNov 28, 2022

This time-lapse of Hubble images taken between 1994 and 2016 shows the shockwave from Supernova 1987a slamming into and superheating a ring of material ejected 20,000 years earlier.

Credits: NASA, ESA, R. Kirshner (HSCfA, Gordon and Betty Moore Fnd), P. Challis (HSCfA)

Show threadRobert McNeesNov 28, 2022
NBD, just a shockwave from a supernova catching up with material ejected around 20,000 years before the explosion, heating it so intensely that it glows in X-ray.
Show threadRobert McNeesNov 29, 2022
The Orion Nebula (M42) was the first deep sky object I found with my telescope when I was a kid.
Image: NASA, ESA, M. Robberto ( Space Telescope Science Institute/ESA), Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team
Show threadRobert McNeesNov 30, 2022

Caldwell 30 (also known as NGC 7331) is a handsome spiral galaxy about 45 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. It's mass and dimensions are very similar to our Milky Way.

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA / D. Milisavljevic (Purdue University)

Show threadRobert McNeesNov 30, 2022

The globular cluster Terzan 4, about 26,000 light years away in the constellation Scorpius. It’s about 12 billion years old, home to around a million mostly old and metal-poor stars.

Image credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Cohen

Show threadRobert McNeesDec 1, 2022
A towering pillar of cold gas in the Eagle Nebula (M16), about 10 light years high. It's being boiled away by intense UV radiation from a cluster of new stars just off the top edge of the image. Stars are likely forming within.
Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Show threadRobert McNeesDec 3, 2022
The star-forming region S106 in the constellation Cygnus, practically next door at only 3,300 light years. Just hanging out forming stars and whatnot!
Image: NASA & ESA
Show threadRobert McNeesDec 4, 2022

A region in NGC 1569, a little galaxy about 11 million light years away in Draco. Gas in the galaxy is compressed by gravitational interactions with the larger IC 342 galaxy group, driving rapid star formation.

Galaxies like this one are said to be in "starburst," experiencing rates of star formation more than a hundred times greater than a typical galaxy. It's a very poetic term!

Image: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Aloisi, Ford
Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt (@spacegeck)

Show threadRobert McNeesDec 14, 2022
The Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635), an emission nebula about 8,000 light years from Earth in the constellation Cassiopeia.
Image: NASA, ESA, Hubble Heritage Team
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@mcnees I will never cease to be amazed at images such as this 💫
Dec 14, 2022 at 2:11amWeb