ASTRONOMY

2022-08-13 09:46:21 Welcome to a new Hubble view of a colorful cloudscape!

This HubbleFriday image captures a luminous region of the Orion Nebula. About 1,000 years away, this nebula is a dynamic region of dust and gas where thousands of stars are forming

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2022-08-13 09:44:21 Science into Sound
Each wavelength of light making up the Crab Nebula image is paired with instruments. X-rays from ChandraXray (blue and white) are brass, optical/visible from NASAHubble (purple) are strings, and infrared (pink) can be heard in the woodwinds.

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2022-08-06 11:50:31 Today Chandra is studying stars in Taurus. Nearby in the sky is IRAS 05437+2502, a reflection Nebula located about 400 light years from Earth. The bright crescent-shaped feature in the image was likely produced by a #star whizzing through the #nebula at 200,000 km/hour or more.

Optical/Infrared (Hubble): NASA, ESA

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2022-08-06 11:46:29 Today Chandra is studying massive #stars in Sagittarius. Nearby in the sky is the Little Gem Nebula — a star shedding its outer layers to form an eye-catching planetary nebula. Roughly half a light-year across, the #nebula is enormous compared to its itsy-bitsy central star.

Optical: NASA, ESA, Hubble

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2022-08-06 11:45:09 Pulsar IGR J11014 is zooming away from a #supernova remnant at over 4 million kilometers per hour — likely kicked to speed by a supernova explosion! The extraordinary jet trailing behind the #pulsar stretches for more than 37 light-years!

X-ray (Chandra & XMM-Newton): NASA/CXC/UC Berkeley/J.Tomsick et al & ESA/XMM-Newton,
Optical (Digitized Sky Survey): DSS;
IR (2MASS): UMass/IPAC-Caltech/NASA/NSF

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2022-08-03 18:13:23 Perhaps the best-known pulsar is the one that lies at the center of the beautiful Crab Nebula. It formed in a supernova whose light reached Earth in July 1054. The pulsar spins 30 times a second and is among the brightest in X-ray and radio wavelengths.

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2022-08-03 18:11:49 Here’s that galaxy again, as seen just through Webb’s MIRI instrument. While Webb’s NIRCam reveals previously unseen young stars, MIRI reveals regions rich in hydrocarbons and chemical compounds, such as silicate dust — similar to dust on Earth!

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2022-08-03 18:07:15 Ready for another #HubbleFriday?

Multiple galaxies shine in this Hubble view, including the lone galaxy in the upper right named LEDA 58109.

Learn more about this week’s image : https://go.nasa.gov/3JeexmO

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2022-08-03 18:03:37 Cartwheeling along…

Take a look at these Hubble & Webb views of the Cartwheel Galaxy! In Hubble’s view, the glittering blue regions indicate starbirth.

Thanks to NASAWebb’s infrared vision that cuts through clouds of gas & dust, previously unseen stars are unveiled!

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2022-07-28 23:49:01 Things with great mass, like galaxy clusters, can magnify & reveal light from smaller objects behind them, like planets, stars or individual galaxies. Listen to a sonification of gravitational lensing seen by NASAHubble.


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