NASA - Astronomy Picture of the Day - January 07, 2016 High Energy Andromeda - A mere 2.5 million light-years away, the Andromeda Galaxy, also known as M31, really is just next door as large galaxies go. In this (inset) scan, image data from NASA's Nuclear Spectrosopic Telescope Array has yielded the best high-energy X-ray view yet of our large neighboring spiral, revealing some 40 extreme sources of X-rays, X-ray binary star systems that contain a black hole or neutron star orbiting a more normal stellar companion. In fact, larger Andromeda and our own Milky Way are the most massive members of the local galaxy group. Andromeda is close enough that NuSTAR can examine its population of X-ray binaries in detail, comparing them to our own. The background image of Andromeda was taken by NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer in energetic ultraviolet light. via NASA http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap160107.html #nasa #space #iss #isro #mars #marsorbiter #outerspace #lightyears #milkyway #universe #galaxy #stars #sun #moon #saturn #jupiter #stumble #stumblespace

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Who would you go to another planet with?🚀 😍 image : © @shainblumphotography - January 08, 2016 at 09:30AM Source: https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xaf1/t51.2885-15/e35/12534383_1733678193530379_593182681_n.jpg #nasa #space #iss #isro #mars #marsorbiter #outerspace #lightyears #milkyway #universe #galaxy #stars #sun #moon #saturn #jupiter #stumble #stumblespace

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I'm sure all of us can agree that most, if not all, images taken of the universe are stunning. Some images, however, are not only stunning, they also offer us a new perspective on the universe and ourselves. One such image is the Hubble Deep Field. In 1995, astronomers performed an experiment in which they pointed the Hubble telescopes gaze at what appeared to be an empty region of the sky located in the constellation of Ursa Major for a total of ten days. With no bright stars or galaxies in the way, Hubble's sensitive instruments were able to capture light from some of the most distant objects in the cosmos over a total of 342 separate exposures. What astronomers found in Hubble's images was absolutely astonishing. What appeared to be an empty and dark region of the cosmos turned out to be filled with some of the most distant galaxies. The image was called the Hubble Deep Field. The image itself covers a region in the sky just 1/24th of a degree across, which is an extremely tiny region in the sky, yet there are over 3,000 individual galaxies in the image, some containing as many as 100 billion stars. Some of these galaxies are the oldest and farthest objects known, the earliest of which formed less than a billion years after the big bang. To date, the Hubble Deep Field is considered to be one of Hubble's most iconic images ever taken. Some of these galaxies formed long before the sun and the solar system were born. When you view this image you're looking billions of years into the past, long before there was any humans, life, and even Earth. Image credit: NASA/ESA #astronomy #astronomer #astrophysics #space #cosmos #science #physics #universe #stars #planet #astronaut #constellation #interstellar #spacetravel #outerspace #instaspace #instalike #instafollow #astrobiology #Nasa #Hubble #telescope #galaxy #stargazing #starstuff #astrophysics_ - January 08, 2016 at 08:22AM Source: https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xpf1/t51.2885-15/e35/1173011_1704552253113205_289417679_n.jpg #nasa #space #iss #isro #mars #marsorbiter #outerspace #lightyears #milkyway #universe #galaxy #stars #sun #moon #saturn #jupiter #stumble #stumblespace

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Behold the most massive young galaxy cluster found in the early universe! Astronomers have used data from three of our Great Observatories to make the most detailed study yet of an extremely massive young galaxy cluster. This rare cluster, which is located 10 billion light years from Earth, weighs as much as 500 trillion suns. This object has important implications for understanding how these megastructures formed and evolved early in the universe. This cluster is so far away that the light detected is from when the universe was roughly a quarter of its current age. It is the most massive galaxy cluster detected at such an early age. Credits: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ of Missouri/M.Brodwin et al; Optical: NASA/STScI; Infrared: JPL/CalTech #nasa #chandra #hubble #hst #spitzer #space #galaxy #astronomy #nasabeyond #science - January 08, 2016 at 05:35AM Source: https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xpt1/t51.2885-15/sh0.08/e35/12534561_1641561849439922_801516943_n.jpg #nasa #space #iss #isro #mars #marsorbiter #outerspace #lightyears #milkyway #universe #galaxy #stars #sun #moon #saturn #jupiter #stumble #stumblespace

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Earthrise from 1968, when the Apollo 8 astronauts orbited the moon for the first time ever. 🚀 image : © NASA 📷- Bill Anders - January 08, 2016 at 01:43AM Source: https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xta1/t51.2885-15/e35/12479332_958019070942992_643771682_n.jpg #nasa #space #iss #isro #mars #marsorbiter #outerspace #lightyears #milkyway #universe #galaxy #stars #sun #moon #saturn #jupiter #stumble #stumblespace

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Astronomers have used data from three of NASA's Great Observatories to make the most detailed study yet of an extremely massive young galaxy cluster. This rare cluster, which is located 10 billion light years from Earth, weighs as much as 500 trillion Suns. This object has important implications for understanding how these megastructures formed and evolved early in the Universe. The galaxy cluster called IDCS J1426.5+3508 (IDCS 1426 for short), is so far away that the light detected is from when the universe was roughly a quarter of its current age. It is the most massive galaxy cluster detected at such an early age. First discovered by the Spitzer Space Telescope in 2012, IDCS 1426 was observed using the Hubble Space Telescope and the Keck Observatory to determine its distance. Observations from the Combined Array for Millimeter Wave Astronomy indicated it was extremely massive. New data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory confirm the galaxy cluster mass and show that about 90% of the mass of the cluster is in the form of dark matter, a mysterious substance detected so far only through its gravitational pull on normal matter composed of atoms. “We are really pushing the boundaries with this discovery,” said Mark Brodwin of the University of Missouri at Kansas City, who led the study. “As one of the earliest massive structures to form in the Universe, this cluster sets a high bar for theories that attempt to explain how clusters and galaxies evolve. #NASA #chandra - January 08, 2016 at 01:04AM Source: https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xpf1/t51.2885-15/sh0.08/e35/11267382_1723324997900784_1791889298_n.jpg #nasa #space #iss #isro #mars #marsorbiter #outerspace #lightyears #milkyway #universe #galaxy #stars #sun #moon #saturn #jupiter #stumble #stumblespace

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NASA - Image of the day - January 07, 2016 Galaxy Cluster IDCS 1426 - Astronomers have made the most detailed study yet of an extremely massive young galaxy cluster using three of NASA’s Great Observatories. via NASA http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/images/galaxy-cluster-idcs-1426.html #nasa #space #iss #isro #mars #marsorbiter #outerspace #lightyears #milkyway #universe #galaxy #stars #sun #moon #saturn #jupiter #stumble #stumblespace

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NASA - Astronomy Picture of the Day - January 06, 2016 Comets and Bright Star - This timely, telescopic, two panel mosaic spans about 10 full moons across planet Earth's predawn skies. Recorded as the year began from Tenerife, Canary Islands, near the top of the frame are the faint coma and tail of Comet Borrelly (P/19). A comet with a seven year orbital period, Borrelly's nucleus was visited by the ion propelled spacecraft Deep Space 1 near the beginning of the 21st century. Anchoring the scene at the bottom is brilliant star Arcturus (Alpha Bootes) and Comet Catalina (C/2013 US10) a first time visitor from the Oort Cloud. Catalina's yellowish dust tail extends below and right. Buffeted by winds and storms from the Sun, the comet's complex ion tail sweeps up and toward the right, across most of the field of view. Remarkably, one of the composition's 30 second exposure subframes also caught the trail of a bright meteor, slashing toward the left between comets and bright star. via NASA http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap160106.html #nasa #space #iss #isro #mars #marsorbiter #outerspace #lightyears #milkyway #universe #galaxy #stars #sun #moon #saturn #jupiter #stumble #stumblespace

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Who do you want to see this with 😍 image : © @nicholasbuer - January 07, 2016 at 09:55AM Source: https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xpa1/t51.2885-15/e35/1170153_484708915065253_432095361_n.jpg #nasa #space #iss #isro #mars #marsorbiter #outerspace #lightyears #milkyway #universe #galaxy #stars #sun #moon #saturn #jupiter #stumble #stumblespace

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#earthart from Astronaut Scott Kelly. He wrote "Earth looks alive down there!" and we have to agree. His #YearInSpace is eye opening for sure! Enjoy! #NASA - January 07, 2016 at 02:35AM Source: https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xaf1/t51.2885-15/e35/12407380_171075119915554_1480157785_n.jpg #nasa #space #iss #isro #mars #marsorbiter #outerspace #lightyears #milkyway #universe #galaxy #stars #sun #moon #saturn #jupiter #stumble #stumblespace

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Geminid meteor shower this year😳 Tag Friends That Should Follow 🚀 image : © @briannguyen - January 07, 2016 at 01:52AM Source: https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xfa1/t51.2885-15/e35/1169176_1705642033055610_1774962301_n.jpg #nasa #space #iss #isro #mars #marsorbiter #outerspace #lightyears #milkyway #universe #galaxy #stars #sun #moon #saturn #jupiter #stumble #stumblespace

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"Twins" of Superstar Eta Carinae in Other Galaxies: Eta Carinae, the most luminous and massive stellar system within 10,000 light-years, is best known for an enormous eruption seen in the mid-19th century that hurled at least 10 times the sun's mass into space. This expanding veil of gas and dust, which still shrouds Eta Carinae, makes it the only object of its kind known in our galaxy. Now a study using archival data from our Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes has found five objects with similar properties in other galaxies for the first time. Credits: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team #nasa #space #galaxy #spitzer #hubble #hst #supernova #nasabeyond #science - January 07, 2016 at 01:42AM Source: https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xaf1/t51.2885-15/sh0.08/e35/12424539_1671676316412787_2065222793_n.jpg #nasa #space #iss #isro #mars #marsorbiter #outerspace #lightyears #milkyway #universe #galaxy #stars #sun #moon #saturn #jupiter #stumble #stumblespace

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NASA - Image of the day - January 06, 2016 Space Station Flyover of British Columbia's Coast Mountains - ESA astronaut Tim Peake (@astro_timpeake) took this photograph over the west coast of Canada from the International Space Station on Dec. 31, 2015, and shared it with his Twitter followers on Jan. 5, writing, "I was lucky enough to fly a helicopter in these Rocky Mountains once – I’m a bit higher this time! #Principia" via NASA http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/space-station-flyover-of-british-columbias-coast-mountains #nasa #space #iss #isro #mars #marsorbiter #outerspace #lightyears #milkyway #universe #galaxy #stars #sun #moon #saturn #jupiter #stumble #stumblespace

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Dream Bigger 🚀 😍 What time is it where you are ? 🕓 image : © @jordansteranka 🌎 Washington - January 06, 2016 at 11:38AM Source: https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xpf1/t51.2885-15/e35/1172587_1036269539767906_158656777_n.jpg #nasa #space #iss #isro #mars #marsorbiter #outerspace #lightyears #milkyway #universe #galaxy #stars #sun #moon #saturn #jupiter #stumble #stumblespace

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NASA - Astronomy Picture of the Day - January 05, 2016 The Lagoon Nebula in Hydrogen Sulfur and Oxygen - The majestic Lagoon Nebula is filled with hot gas and the home for many young stars. Spanning 100 light years across while lying only about 5000 light years distant, the Lagoon Nebula is so big and bright that it can be seen without a telescope toward the constellation of the Archer (Sagittarius). Many bright stars are visible from NGC 6530, an open cluster that formed in the nebula only several million years ago. The greater nebula, also known as M8 and NGC 6523, is named "Lagoon" for the band of dust seen to the right of the open cluster's center. The featured image was taken in the light emitted by Hydrogen (shown in brown), Sulfur (red), and Oxygen (blue) and displayed in enhanced color. The featured picture is a newly processed panorama of M8, capturing twice the diameter of the Full Moon. Star formation continues in the Lagoon Nebula as witnessed by the many globules that exist there. via NASA http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap160105.html #nasa #space #iss #isro #mars #marsorbiter #outerspace #lightyears #milkyway #universe #galaxy #stars #sun #moon #saturn #jupiter #stumble #stumblespace

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Image: The Mice Galaxies are an example of interacting and merging galaxies. Credit: NASA/ESA Across the universe we see a countless number of galaxies. From spirals, ellipticals, and strangely shaped galaxies, the universe contains a wide variety of different shapes and sizes of galaxies. Sometimes galaxies interact, collide, and even merge together to form larger galaxies. This happens quite frequently across the universe and is important to the evolution of galaxies. Galaxies that pass close to one another will interact with each other through their gravity. The gravity of each galaxy pulls on the other, which can distort the galaxies shape. When two spiral galaxies interact, the gravity of these galaxies can even 'unwind' the galaxies spiral arms, stretching them out across space. This is how astronomers believe most, if not all, irregular galaxies form. As galaxies interact, they not only distort the shape of either galaxy, they also cause a phase of intense star formation, the effect of which is either one or both galaxies will become starburst galaxies. As two or more galaxies gravitationally interact with each other, tidal forces cause gas within both galaxies to clump together, leading to a phase of intense star formation. If two or more galaxies happen to collide, it's very unlikely that any stars will actually collide. However, it's very likely, perhaps even inevitable, that nebulae within both galaxies will collide. This colliding of nebulae will result in gas clumping together and gravitationally collapsing, leading to a phase of accelerated star formation. Because of this starburst phase, nearly all of the star forming material will be used up by the time the collision is done, and no new stars will be born within the galaxy. (Second comment below with more information 👇👇👇) - January 06, 2016 at 09:53AM Source: https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xfa1/t51.2885-15/e35/1208359_567858896696995_1669157668_n.jpg #nasa #space #iss #isro #mars #marsorbiter #outerspace #lightyears #milkyway #universe #galaxy #stars #sun #moon #saturn #jupiter #stumble #stumblespace

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This stunning image shows the group of galaxies called Stephan's Quintet, located in the constellation of Pegasus. This group of galaxies appears to contain five galaxies, when in fact it contains four. The fifth galaxy, the bluish galaxy designated NGC 7320, is actually located much closer than the others. NGC 7320 lies around 40 million light years away, while the others are much farther, at a distance of 250 million light years. The four galaxies that are part of Stephan's Quintet consist of the elliptical galaxy NGC 7317, the barred spiral galaxy NGC 7319, and two colliding galaxies designated NGC 7318a and NGC 7318b. These two galaxies are currently merging together and will likely become a single galaxy sometime in the future. Both these galaxies show clear signs of a galactic collision, including lanes of dust and stars being thrown out of both galaxies, as well as a burst of star formation due to colliding dust. Image credit: NASA/ESA #astronomy #astronomer #astrophysics #space #cosmos #science #physics #universe #stars #planet #astronaut #constellation #interstellar #spacetravel #outerspace #instaspace #instalike #instafollow #astrobiology #Nasa #Hubble #telescope #galaxy #stargazing #starstuff #astrophysics_ - January 06, 2016 at 06:00AM Source: https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xpa1/t51.2885-15/e35/12407346_1049381015084075_2110658335_n.jpg #nasa #space #iss #isro #mars #marsorbiter #outerspace #lightyears #milkyway #universe #galaxy #stars #sun #moon #saturn #jupiter #stumble #stumblespace

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Don't forget we're spinning at 1,000 mph right now.. on a "rock", in this incredibly vast universe. And if the universe isn't infinite, then what's on the other side?😳🌎 💫 image : © @splitsecondsnapshot - January 06, 2016 at 02:11AM Source: https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xpf1/t51.2885-15/e35/1515470_1663294720594245_1570596345_n.jpg #nasa #space #iss #isro #mars #marsorbiter #outerspace #lightyears #milkyway #universe #galaxy #stars #sun #moon #saturn #jupiter #stumble #stumblespace

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A Supermassive Black Hole Found Burping Nearby: Astronomers have used our Chandra X-ray Observatory to discover one of the nearest supermassive black holes to Earth that is currently undergoing powerful outbursts. This galactic burping was found in the Messier 51 galaxy, which is located about 26 million light years from Earth and contains a large spiral galaxy NGC 5194 (also known by its nickname of the "Whirlpool"), merging with a smaller companion galaxy NGC 5195 Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ of Texas/E.Schlegel et al; Optical: NASA/STScI #nasa #space #chandra #galaxy #blackhole #nasabeyond #science - January 06, 2016 at 01:39AM Source: https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xft1/t51.2885-15/e35/1172942_206311196379809_817493687_n.jpg #nasa #space #iss #isro #mars #marsorbiter #outerspace #lightyears #milkyway #universe #galaxy #stars #sun #moon #saturn #jupiter #stumble #stumblespace

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This stunning image shows the Eagle Nebula, a star forming region located in the constellation Ophiuchus some 7,000 light years away. Since it was first photographed by Hubble in 1994, the Eagle Nebula has become one of the best known areas to study star formation. Deep within the heart of the Eagle Nebula lies magnificent pillar-like structures, such as the Pillars of Creation and the Stellar Spire. These structures can be very large. Some of these pillars are more than ten light years in height. These and other structures within the Eagle Nebula are regions in which star formation is currently taking place. Infrared images have revealed the existence of young protostars within the nebula. These baby stars will one day become real stars, perhaps with their own planets. A massive star located within the central star cluster M16 has recently gone supernova. The shockwave from this supernova will tear through the nebula, possibly even destroying the Pillars of Creation themselves. Newborn stars will be exposed and the shockwave will likely trigger a new wave of star formation. Image credit: NASA/ESA #astronomy #astronomer #astrophysics #space #cosmos #science #physics #universe #stars #planet #astronaut #constellation #interstellar #spacetravel #outerspace #instaspace #instalike #instafollow #astrobiology #Nasa #Hubble #telescope #galaxy #stargazing #starstuff #astrophysics_ - January 05, 2016 at 10:22PM Source: https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xat1/t51.2885-15/e35/12479176_643772282392769_888707532_n.jpg #nasa #space #iss #isro #mars #marsorbiter #outerspace #lightyears #milkyway #universe #galaxy #stars #sun #moon #saturn #jupiter #stumble #stumblespace

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