The US space agency, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), has released stunning images of different nebulas, star clusters and more.
These images were captured by NASA and the Hubble Heritage team. Launched in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope changed fundamental understanding of the universe, from determining the atmospheric composition of planets around other stars to the discovery of dark energy.
Westerlund 2, a giant cluster of 3,000 stars, lies in a raucous stellar breeding ground known as Gum 29. Hubble Space Telescope The telescope pierced the veil of dust shrouding the stellar nursery by observing near-infrared light, giving astronomers a clear view of the nebula and the dense concentration of stars in the central cluster. The cluster measures between 6 and 13 light-years across.
This image of Caldwell 69 includes ultraviolet, visible, and infrared observations taken in 2019 and 2020 by Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3. The Butterfly Nebula is a stunning bipolar planetary nebula. nebula Located in the constellation of Scorpio, it gets its name from its resemblance to a butterfly, with “wings” that extend over three light years.
Eye in the Sky This Hubble Space Telescope image shows NGC 4826, a spiral galaxy located 17 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. This galaxy is often referred to as the “Black Eye” or “Evil Eye” galaxy because of the dark band of dust that runs along one side of its bright core.
Like a fireworks display, a bright young collection of stars looks like an air explosion. The huge, hot star cluster called NGC 3603 is surrounded by clouds of interstellar gas and dust, the raw material for the formation of new stars. This environment is not as peaceful as it seems.
Ultraviolet radiation and violent stellar winds have created a huge cavity in the gas and dust surrounding the cluster, allowing an unobstructed view of the cluster. Most of the stars in the cluster were born at roughly the same time, but they differ in size, mass, temperature and colour.
The composite image is a seamless blend of ultra-sharp Hubble Space Telescope images combined with the wide view from the Mosaic Camera on the National Science Foundation’s 0.9-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona. Astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute assembled these images into a mosaic. The mosaic was then merged with a wider photograph taken by the Mosaic Camera.
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