Scientists used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to examine star-forming regions in the Extreme Outer Galaxy, including Digel Cloud 2S, revealing young stars, their jets, and a backdrop of galaxies and red nebulous structures. Webb’s MIRI and NIRCam filters assigned red, green, and blue colors to various wavelengths for this image. Astronomers have utilized […]
Category: Cosmos
NGC 5033: Unbarred Spiral Galaxy in Canes Venatici
In 2018, A image from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals the striking beauty of NGC 5033, an unbarred spiral galaxy located approximately 40 million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici. With a diameter of over 100,000 light-years, NGC 5033 is comparable in size to our Milky Way galaxy. The galaxy’s spiral arms are […]
Hubble Space Telescope Captures Stunning Image of Seyfert Galaxy NGC 5033.
In 2018, A image from the Hubble Space Telescope reveals the striking beauty of NGC 5033, an unbarred spiral galaxy located approximately 40 million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici. With a diameter of over 100,000 light-years, NGC 5033 is comparable in size to our Milky Way galaxy. The galaxy’s spiral arms are […]
NGC 261 Shines Brightly in the Small Magellanic Cloud: Hubble’s Insight into Star Formation.
NGC 261 is situated within the Small Magellanic Cloud, one of the Milky Way’s nearest galactic companions. NGC 261 shines with a brilliant ruby red in this new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, set against a backdrop of countless stars. Discovered on September 5, 1826, by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop, this nebula resides in […]
Juno Spacecraft Captures Stunning View of Jupiter’s Turbulent Northern Hemisphere.
During its 61st close flyby of Jupiter on May 12, 2024, NASA’s Juno spacecraft delivered a mesmerizing snapshot of the gas giant’s northern hemisphere. The image, enhanced to highlight colors, reveals a tumultuous scene of swirling clouds and cyclonic storms within what scientists term a “folded filamentary region.” Here, the orderly bands typically seen […]
James Webb Space Telescope Directly Images Cold Exoplanet 12 Light-Years Away.
This image of exoplanet Epsilon Indi Ab was captured by the MIRI coronagraph on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. Epsilon Indi A’s starlight was blocked, resulting in a dark circle marked by a dashed white line. Epsilon Indi Ab, one of the coldest directly imaged exoplanets, appears as a point source. Blue represents light […]
Hubble discovers intermediate-mass black hole in the Omega Centauri cluster.
Omega Centauri stands out among its counterparts in the realm of globular clusters due to its extraordinary mass, which surpasses that of other large clusters by approximately tenfold. Comprising a staggering assembly of approximately 10 million stars held together by gravitational forces, Omega Centauri rivals even small galaxies in scale and complexity within the […]
NASA’s James Webb Telescope Captures Cosmic Fireworks of Star Birth.
L1527, captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s MIRI, is a molecular cloud housing a protostar located 460 light-years away in Taurus. Organic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) contribute to the diffuse blue light and filamentary structures, while the red highlights an energized layer of gases and dust enveloping the protostar. In between, a white […]
James Webb Space Telescope Unlocks New Insights into the Crab Nebula.
This image by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) and MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) shows different structural details of the Crab Nebula. The supernova remnant comprises several components, including doubly ionized sulfur (green), warm dust (magenta), and synchrotron emission (blue). Yellow-white mottled filaments within the Crab’s interior represent areas where dust and doubly […]
The Sun Emitted Two Strong Solar Flares on June 1, 2024.
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory captured images of two solar flares—seen as bright flashes near the center—on June 1. These images show extreme ultraviolet light, highlighting the hot material in flares, colorized in blue and gold. On Saturday, June 1, 2024, the Sun unleashed two powerful solar flares, peaking at 4:48 a.m. and 2:36 p.m. […]
