#Galaxy Lenses Galaxy from #Webb
#Astronomy #Picture of the Day
#Galaxy Lenses Galaxy from #Webb
#Astronomy #Picture of the Day
Galaxy Lenses Galaxy from Webb
Is this one galaxy or two? Although it looks like one, the answer is two. One path to this happening is when a small galaxy collides with a larger galaxy and ends up in the center. But in the featured image, something more rare is going on. Here, the central light-colored elliptical galaxy is much closer than the blue and red-colored spiral galaxy that surrounds it.
Image of Arp 122, also known as NGC 6040 and LEDA 59642, from the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies by Halton Arp (1966).
In the original catalog, it was in the category: Elliptical galaxies - Close to and perturbing spiral galaxies. This pair of galaxies NGC 6040, the tilted, warped spiral galaxy and LEDA 59642, the round, face-on spiral are in the midst of a collision.
Composite image of Arp 26, also known as M101 or the Pinwheel Galaxy.
X-ray observations from NuSTAR (green) show a supernova four days after the explosion. The data are overlaid on a visible light (NOIRLab/KPNO, yellows and reds) and far-UV (GALEX, blue) image.
Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, NOIRLab, NSF, AURA, B. Grefenstette, R. Hurt
Source: https://www.nustar.caltech.edu/image/nustar240125a
#Messier 91 is a barred spiral #galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices, located about 60 million light-years from Earth, and reaches its annual culmination at astronomical midnight and is best observed around March 22nd.
Detailed Information: https://astrocamp.eu/m91
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Hubble Space Telescope image of Arp 4.
This image contains two galaxies, a larger irregular galaxy, Arp 4, and a small spiral galaxy PGC 6629.
Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, Julianne Dalcanton, Meli thev, Wikimedia Commons
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arp_4_Hubble.jpg
APOD from 2025-04-17
Virgo Cluster Galaxies
This telescopic view captures the Virgo Cluster, 50 million light-years away, featuring bright elliptical galaxies M87, M86, and M84. M87 dominates with its supermassive black hole, first imaged by #Earth's Event Horizon #Telescope. Markarian's Chain is visible, including the interacting galaxies NGC 4438 and NGC 4435.
HD image at https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250417.html#space #astronomy #galaxy #planet
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Merging star clusters: For the first time, researchers have observed the fusion of star clusters in dwarf galaxies — a discovery made by chance through observations from the #Hubble space telescope.
Read more in our news article or check out the original study in #Nature:
https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/newsroom/2025/celestial-spectacle-witnessed/
Planetary Nebula NGC 1514 from Webb
* Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, M. E. Ressler (JPL) et al.; Processing: Judy Schmidt
https://science.nasa.gov/people-of-nasa/meet-a-citizen-scientist-judy-schmidt/
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https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/
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Explanation:
What happens when a star runs out of nuclear fuel? For stars like our Sun, the center condenses into a white dwarf while the outer atmosphere is expelled into space to appear as a planetary nebula. The expelled outer atmosphere of planetary nebula NGC 1514 appears to be a jumble of bubbles -- when seen in visible light. But the view from the James Webb Space Telescope in infrared, as featured here, confirms a different story: in this light the nebula shows a distinct hourglass shape, which is interpreted as a cylinder seen along a diagonal. If you look closely at the center of the nebula, you can also see a bright central star that is part of a binary system. More observations might better reveal how this nebula is evolving and how the central stars are working together to produce the interesting cylinder and bubbles observed.
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APOD from 2025-04-14
The Galactic Center in Radio from MeerKAT
MeerKAT's radio image reveals the Milky Way's center, including Sgr A with its supermassive black hole. The vast 2-degree view details many celestial features, while JWST's inset probes star formation and magnetic fields. Optical telescopes can't see this due to dust.
HD image at https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250414.html#space #astronomy #galaxy #moon #infrared #webb #telescope
The Galactic Center in Radio from MeerKAT
* Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, SARAO, S. Crowe (UVA), J. Bally (CU), R. Fedriani (IAA-CSIC), I. Heywood (Oxford)
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https://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/
https://www.esa.int/
https://www.nasa.gov/
Explanation:
What's happening at the center of our galaxy? It's hard to tell with optical telescopes since visible light is blocked by intervening interstellar dust. In other bands of light, though, such as radio, the galactic center can be imaged and shows itself to be quite an interesting and active place. The featured picture shows an image of our Milky Way's center by the MeerKAT array of 64 radio dishes in South Africa. Spanning four times the angular size of the Moon (2 degrees), the image is impressively vast, deep, and detailed. Many known sources are shown in clear detail, including many with a prefix of Sgr, since the galactic center is in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius. In our galaxy's center lies Sgr A, found here in the image center, which houses the Milky Way's central supermassive black hole. Other sources in the image are not as well understood, including the Arc, just to the left of Sgr A, and numerous filamentary threads. The inset image shows a small patch recently imaged in infrared light with the James Webb Space Telescope to investigate the effects of magnetic fields on star formation.
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Hubble and Legacy Survey image of Arp 282, also known as NGC 169 and NGC 169A.
NGC 169 (bottom) and NGC 169A (top) are interacting, creating delicate streams of stars, gas and dust that visibly link the pair.
In this image, the luminosity comes from Hubble ACS/WFC observations, and color comes from the Legacy Survey.
Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, J. Dalcanton, Judy Schmidt, Legacy Surveys, D. Lang, NERSC
Source: https://www.flickr.com/photos/geckzilla/51591641345/in/album-72157706827406804
There is big then there is BIG! USAF C-5M Galaxy 86-0016 taking the option at Travis AFB at 1000 feet does not fit in this uncropped frame at 400mm #C5M #TravisAFB #C5 #galaxy #Cargo #airlifter #travisafb #aviationphotography #planespotting #photography #aircraft #Nikon #aviationphotography #big
NASA proves its electric moon dust shield works on the lunar surface
Hubble Space Telescope image of Arp 147, also known as IC 298.
The clumpy, blue ring in the galaxy on the right likely formed when the companion galaxy to the left crashed through its center. This sent a pressure wave outward, like a ripple in a pond, compressing the right galaxy's gas and triggering the formation of new stars.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Livio (STScI)
Source: https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2008/37/2422-Image.html?news=true
The same dirt that clings to astronauts' boots may one day keep their lights on. In a study published in Device, researchers created solar cells made out of simulated moon dust. The cells convert sunlight ...
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-solar-cells-moon-power-future.amp
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Was sind eure Tipps und Erfahrungen?
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