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https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/S_240214.jpg Rosette Deep Field Explanation: Can you find the Rosette Nebula? The large, red , and flowery-looking nebula on the upper left may seem the obvious choice, but that is actually just diffuse hydrogen emission surrounding the Cone and Fox Fur Nebulas ....

"Note how beautifully regular UGC 11105 really is, and note how little star formation there is in the arms. These two factors go hand in hand. A lot of star formation will, frankly, mess up the shape of the arms." Ann ThanX Ann 4 your comment! That's an interesting theory. Where active st...

03.02.2024 I UGC 5189A - This Galaxy Hosted One of the Most Powerful Supernovae Ever Seen universe today | Original release 2024 Jan 23 https://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/UGC-5189A-supernova-hubble.jpg In 2010, an exceptionally luminous supernova exploded in a small galaxy abo...

02.02.2024 I UGC 11105 - Hubble Pictures of the Week NASA/ESA | Original release 2024 Jan 29 https://cdn.esahubble.org/archives/images/screen/potw2405a.jpg This image of the spiral galaxy UGC 11105 is not as bright and vivid as some other Hubble Pictures of the Week. This softly luminous galaxy — l...

01.02.2024 I HST: Hubble captures a suspected galaxy encounter phys.org | Original release 2024 Feb 01 https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2024/hubble-captures-a-susp.jpg UGC 3912 is classified as a spiral galaxy, but you wouldn't know it from this detailed NASA HST image. UGC 3912's distorted sha...

Team of astronomers discovers galaxy that shouldn't exist phys.org | 2024 feb 02 https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2024/team-of-astronomers-le.jpg "A team of astronomers, led by Arizona State University Assistant Research Scientist Tim Carleton, has discovered a dwarf galaxy that appeared i...

31.01.2024 I Arp 300: Hubble Observes an Askew Galaxy Coaxing Star Formation from its Partner NASA/ESA | Original release 2024 Jan 23 https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/hubble-arp300-1-flat-cont-final.jpg?w=4096&format=webp Arp 300 consists of two interacting galaxies, UGC 0502...

31.01.2024 I Arp 300: Hubble Observes an Askew Galaxy Coaxing Star Formation from its Partner NASA/ESA | Original release 2024 Jan 23 https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/hubble-arp300-1-flat-cont-final.jpg?w=4096&format=webp Arp 300 consists of two interacting galaxies, UGC 0502...

"NGC 1365's prominent bar plays a crucial role" .. Sorry, but where is the "bar" ? I zoomed and zoomed.. maybe I am challenged to see shapes OR people who think there's a bar are falling to brain's "looking for shapes and patterns" bias/tendency ? APOD 1 February 2024 ...

Supernova remnant SS 433 - NASA's IXPE Helps Researchers Maximize 'Microquasar' Findings NASA / ESA | 2024 Jan 17 https://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2024/ss433/ss433_rollover_525.jpg ABSTRACT This composite image of the Manatee Nebula captures the jet emanating from SS 433, a black hole pulling mate...

29.01.2024 I Hubble captures Arp 295 NASA/ESA | Original release 2024 Jan 26 https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2024/image-hubble-captures.jpg One of the galaxies from a galactic group known as Arp 295 is visible in this new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image, along with part of the faint 250,000-...

M87*'s Event Horizon Image. One Year Later universe today | 2024 Jan 19 "In the new image, however, the brightest part of a ring surrounding the black hole has shifted counterclockwise by about 30°. That could be because of random churning in the disk of material that swirls around the black h...

MACS J0138.0-2155 Go Webb! flickr | Release Date 2023 Dez 06 ... Congratulation - Great processing! "...James Webb took some images of the galaxy cluster MACS J0138.0-2155. This cluster is so massive that it distorts the light coming from behind it so strongly, we see it as a smudged stain. A ...

WEBB depicts staggering structure in 19 nearby spiral galaxies phys.org | 2024 Jan 29 https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2024/nasas-webb-depicts-sta.jpg A new treasure trove of Webb images has arrived. Near- and mid-infrared images show off every facet of these face-on spiral galaxies. ... These ...

30.01.2024 I Image: Hubble spies side-by-side galaxies Arp 140 NASA/ESA | Original release 2024 Jan 25 https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2024/image-hubble-spies-sid.jpg A barred spiral galaxy and a lenticular galaxy come together to create this interacting pair known as Arp 140. The lenticular g...

29.01.2024 I Hubble captures Arp 295 NASA/ESA | Original release 2024 Jan 26 https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2024/image-hubble-captures.jpg One of the galaxies from a galactic group known as Arp 295 is visible in this new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image, along with part of the faint 250,000-...

29.01.2024 I Hubble captures Arp 295 NASA/ESA | Original release 2024 Jan 26 https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800a/2024/image-hubble-captures.jpg One of the galaxies from a galactic group known as Arp 295 is visible in this new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image, along with part of the faint 250,000-...

28.01.2024 I Hubble: IC 438 - Luminous in Lepus NASA/ESA | Original release 2024 Jan 22 https://cdn.esahubble.org/archives/images/screen/potw2404a.jpg This image shows the spiral galaxy IC 438, which lies about 130 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Lepus (the Hare). Lepus lies jus...

... Could you please provide a link to the Chandra images of either the Hercules Cluster or of IC 1182 itself? I have been unable to find anything. To my knowledge, the only galaxy in Hercules that has been paid any special attention by either X-ray or radio-detecting telescopes is the radio galaxy...

... Could you please provide a link to the Chandra images of either the Hercules Cluster or of IC 1182 itself? I have been unable to find anything. To my knowledge, the only galaxy in Hercules that has been paid any special attention by either X-ray or radio-detecting telescopes is the radio galaxy...

Hubble captures a monster merger PHYS.ORG | 2024 Jan 15 I thought I recognized this galaxy pair, Jac! They belong to the beautiful Hercules Cluster of Galaxies! :D The Hercules Cluster of Galaxies annotated Rafael Bustamente.png The Hercules Cluster of Galaxies. Credit: Rafael Bustamente NGC 6050 i...

28.01.2024 I Hubble: IC 438 - Luminous in Lepus NASA/ESA | Original release 2024 Jan 22 https://cdn.esahubble.org/archives/images/screen/potw2404a.jpg This image shows the spiral galaxy IC 438, which lies about 130 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Lepus (the Hare). Lepus lies jus...

The SARAO MeerKAT 1.3 GHz Galactic Plane Survey S. Goedhart, et. al. ARXIV | Preprint 2023 Dez 13 https://d3i71xaburhd42.cloudfront.net/c5e70c71c70ad1d36048f94680e4f877a78d5a6a/5-Figure2-1.png ABSTRACT We present the SARAO MeerKAT Galactic Plane Survey (SMGPS), a 1.3 GHz continuum survey of almost ...

M87*'s Event Horizon Image. One Year Later universe today | 2024 Jan 19 https://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/2018-1024x656.jpg ... One interesting difference easily seen in the images is that the bright region of the ring has shifted counterclockwise by about 30 degrees. This is...

Hubble captures a monster merger PHYS.ORG | 2024 Jan 15 https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/2024/hubble-captures-a-mons.jpg This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features Arp 122, a peculiar galaxy that in fact comprises two galaxies—NGC 6040, the tilted, warped spiral galaxy and LEDA 59642 , the ...