Earth is a planet of amazing beauty, conquering with its incredible beauty of landscapes. But if you look into the depths of space, using powerful telescopes, you understand: there is something to admire in space too. And photographs taken by NASA satellites, therefore confirmation.
1. Galaxy Sunflower
The Sunflower Galaxy is one of the most beautiful cosmic structures known to man in the universe. Its sweeping spiral arms are made up of new blue-white giant stars.
2. Carina Nebula
Although many consider this image to be photoshopped, it is actually a real shot of the Carina Nebula. Giant accumulations of gas and dust spread over more than 300 light years. This region of active star formation is located at a distance of 6,500 - 10,000 light years from Earth.
3. Clouds in the atmosphere of Jupiter
This infrared image of Jupiter shows the clouds in the planet's atmosphere colored differently depending on their height. Because the a large number of methane in the atmosphere limits the penetration of sunlight, yellow areas are clouds at the highest level, red areas are at an average level, and blue areas are the lowest clouds.
What's really amazing about this image is that it shows the shadows of all three of Jupiter's largest moons - Io, Ganymede and Callisto. An event like this happens about once every ten years.
4. Galaxy I Zwicky 18
The image of the galaxy I Zwicky 18 looks more like a scene from Doctor Who, which gives a special cosmic beauty to this image. The dwarf irregular galaxy puzzles scientists because some of its star formation processes are typical of galaxy formation in the earliest days of the universe. Despite this, the galaxy is relatively young: its age is only about a billion years.
5. Saturn
The dimmest planet that can be seen from Earth with the naked eye, Saturn is generally considered the favorite planet for all aspiring astronomers. Its remarkable ring structure is the most famous in our universe. The image was taken in infrared to show the subtle hues of Saturn's gaseous atmosphere.
6 Nebula NGC 604
More than 200 very hot stars make up the NGC 604 nebula. The Hubble Space Telescope was able to capture the nebula's impressive fluorescence caused by ionized hydrogen.
7 Crab Nebula
Compiled from 24 individual images, this photograph of the Crab Nebula shows a supernova remnant in the constellation Taurus.
8. Star V838 Mon
The red ball in the center of this image is the star V838 Mon, surrounded by many dust clouds. This incredible photo was taken after the star's outburst caused a so-called "light echo" that pushed dust further away from the star and into space.
9. Westerlund 2 clusters
The image of the Westerlund 2 cluster was taken in infrared and visible light. It was published in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope in Earth's orbit.
10. Hourglass
One of the creepy images (in fact, the only one of its kind) that NASA has taken is of the Hourglass Nebula. It was named so because of an unusually shaped gas cloud, which was formed under the influence of a stellar wind. It all looks like a terrible eye that looks from the depths of space at the Earth.
11. Witch's broom
All the colors of the rainbow can be found in this image of part of the Veil Nebula, which is 2,100 light-years from Earth. Due to its elongated and thin shape, this nebula is often referred to as the Witch's Broom.
12. Constellation of Orion
In the constellation of Orion, you can see a real giant lightsaber. It is, in fact, a jet of gas under enormous pressure, which creates a shock wave upon contact with the surrounding dust.
13. Explosion of a supermassive star
This image shows the explosion of a supermassive star that looks more like a birthday cake than a supernova. Two loops of star remnants extend unevenly, while a ring in the center surrounds the dying star. Scientists are still looking for a neutron star or black hole at the center of a former giant star.
14. Whirlpool Galaxy
Although the Whirlpool Galaxy looks great, it hides a dark secret (literally) - the galaxy is full of predatory black holes. On the left, the Whirlpool is shown in visible light (i.e., its stars), and on the right, in infrared light (its dust cloud structures).
15. Orion Nebula
In this image, the Orion Nebula looks like the open mouth of a Phoenix bird. The picture was taken in infrared, ultraviolet and visible light to create an incredibly colorful and detailed image. The bright spot in place of the bird's heart is four giant stars, about 100,000 times brighter than the Sun.
16. Ring Nebula
As a result of the explosion of a star similar to our Sun, the Ring Nebula was formed - beautiful hot layers of gas and the remnants of the atmosphere. All that's left of the star is a small white dot in the center of the picture.
17. Milky Way
If someone needs to describe what hell looks like, they can use this infrared image of the core of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Hot, ionized gas swirls at its center in a giant whirlpool, and massive stars are born in various places.
18. Nebula Cat's eye
The stunning Cat's Eye Nebula is made up of eleven rings of gas that predated the formation of the nebula itself. The irregular internal structure is believed to be the result of a fast-moving stellar wind that has "teared" the bubble shell at both ends.
19. Omega Centauri
Over 100,000 stars clustered together in the globular cluster Omega Centauri. The yellow dots are middle-aged stars, like our Sun. The orange dots are older stars, and the large red dots are stars in the red giant phase. After these stars shed their outer layer of hydrogen gas, they turn bright blue.
20. Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula
One of NASA's most popular photographs of all time is the Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula. These giant formations of gas and dust were captured in the visible light range. The pillars change over time as they are "weathered" by stellar winds from nearby stars.
21. Stephen's Quintet
Five galaxies, known as "Stefan's Quintet" are constantly "fighting" with each other. Although the blue galaxy in the left upper corner much closer to Earth than the others, the other four are constantly "stretching" each other apart, distorting their shapes and tearing their sleeves.
22. Nebula Butterfly
Informally known as the Butterfly Nebula, NGC 6302 is actually the remains of a dying star. Its ultraviolet radiation causes the gases ejected by the star to glow brightly. Butterfly wings span more than two light years, that is, half the distance from the Sun to the nearest star.
23. Quasar SDSS J1106
Quasars are the result of supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies. The quasar SDSS J1106 is the most energetic quasar ever found. About 1,000 light-years from Earth, SDSS J1106 emits about 2 trillion suns, or 100 times the entire Milky Way.
24. Nebula "War and Peace"
The nebula NGC 6357 is one of the most dramatic pieces in the sky and it's no surprise that it has been unofficially dubbed "War and Peace". Its dense network of gas forms a bubble around the bright Pismis 24 star cluster, then uses its ultraviolet radiation to heat the gas and push it out into the universe.
25. Carina Nebula
One of the most breathtaking images of space is the Carina Nebula. The interstellar cloud, consisting of dust and ionized gases, is one of the largest nebulae visible in the earth's sky. The nebula consists of countless star clusters and even the brightest star in the Milky Way galaxy.
Fifteen years ago, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory was launched into space aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia. Since July 23, 1999, this telescope has helped revolutionize our understanding of the universe through its images.
Chandra, one of NASA's "great observatories" along with the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, is specifically designed to detect X-rays from hot and energetic regions of the universe.
Thanks to its high resolution and sensitivity, Chandra observes various objects from the nearest planets and comets to the most distant known quasars. The telescope displays traces of exploded stars and supernova remnants, observes the region near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, and detects other black holes in the universe.
Chandra contributed to the study of the nature of dark energy, made it possible to take a step forward on the path to its study, traces the separation of dark matter from normal matter in collisions between clusters of galaxies.
The telescope rotates in an orbit remote from the Earth's surface up to 139,000 km. This height allows you to avoid the shadow of the Earth during observations. When Chandra was launched into space, it was the largest of all the satellites previously launched using the shuttle.
In honor of the 15th anniversary of the space observatory, we publish a selection of the 15 best photos taken by the Chandra telescope.
1. Galactic pyrotechnic show
This spiral galaxy in the constellation Canis Hounds is about 23 million light-years distant from us. It is known as NGC 4258 or M106.
2. At the center of the Flame Nebula
A cluster of stars in an optical image from the Digitized Sky Survey of the center of the Flame Nebula, or NGC 2024. The images from the Chandra and Spitzer telescopes are juxtaposed and shown as an overlay, demonstrating how powerful X-ray and infrared images help in studying star-forming regions.
3. Inside the Flame Nebula or Torch Nebula
Centaurus A is the fifth brightest galaxy in the sky, so it often attracts the attention of amateur astronomers. It is located only 12 million light years from Earth.
5. Galaxy Fireworks
The Fireworks Galaxy or NGC 6946 is a medium-sized spiral galaxy about 22 million light-years from Earth. In the last century, an explosion of eight supernovae was observed within its limits, because of the brightness it was called Fireworks.
6 Glowing gas in the Milky Way
A region of glowing gas in the Sagittarius arm of the Milky Way galaxy is NGC 3576, a nebula about 9,000 light-years from Earth.
7. A beautiful end to the life of a star
Stars like the Sun can become amazingly photogenic in the twilight of life. A good example is the Eskimo planetary nebula NGC 2392, which lies about 4,200 light-years from Earth.
8 Supernova Remnant W49B
The remnants of supernova W49B, about a thousand years old, lie about 26,000 light-years away. Supernova explosions that destroy massive stars tend to be symmetrical, with a more or less even distribution of stellar material in all directions. In W49B we see an exception.
9. Nebula Cat's eye
When radiative winds from massive young stars impact clouds of cold gas, they can form new stellar generations. Perhaps just this process is captured in the Elephant Trunk Nebula (official name IC 1396A).
12. Galaxy NGC 4945
Image of the central region of the galaxy, outwardly resembling the Milky Way. But it contains a much more active supermassive black hole in the white region. The distance between the galaxy NGC 4945 and the Earth is about 13 million light years.
For 24 years now, the Hubble Space Telescope has been orbiting the Earth, thanks to which scientists have made many discoveries and helped us better understand the Universe. However, the photographs of the Hubble telescope are not only a help for scientific researchers, but also a pleasure for lovers of space and its mysteries. It must be admitted that the Universe looks amazing in the pictures of the telescope. See the latest photos from the Hubble telescope.
12 PHOTOS
1. Galaxy NGC 4526.
Behind the soulless name NGC 4526 is a small galaxy located in the so-called Virgo Cluster of Galaxies. This refers to the constellation Virgo. “The black dust belt, combined with the clear glow of the galaxy, creates the effect of the so-called halo in the dark void of space,” the image was described on the website of the European Space Agency (ESA). The picture was taken on October 20, 2014. (Photo: ESA).
2. Large Magellanic Cloud. The image shows only part of the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way. It is visible from Earth, but unfortunately does not look as impressive as in the photographs of the Hubble telescope, which "showed people amazing swirling clouds of gas and shining stars," writes the ESA. The picture was taken on October 13th. (Photo: ESA).
3. Galaxy NGC 4206. Another galaxy from the constellation Virgo. Do you see a lot of small blue dots around the central part of the galaxy in the picture? This is how stars are born. Amazing, right? The picture was taken on October 6th. (Photo: ESA).
4. Star AG Carina. This star in the constellation Carina is at the final stage of evolution of absolute brightness. It is millions of times brighter than the Sun. The Hubble Space Telescope photographed it on September 29. (Photo: ESA).
5. Galaxy NGC 7793. NGC 7793 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Sculptor, about 13 million light-years from Earth. The picture was taken on September 22nd. (Photo: ESA).
6. Galaxy NGC 6872. NGC 6872 is located in the constellation Pavo, which is located on the edge of the Milky Way. Its unusual shape is caused by the impact on it of a smaller galaxy - IC 4970, which is visible in the picture directly above it. These galaxies are located at a distance of 300 million light years from Earth. Hubble photographed them on September 15th. (Photo: ESA).
7. Galactic anomaly IC 55. This image, taken on September 8, shows a very unusual galaxy IC 55 with anomalies: bright blue "bursts" of stars and an irregular shape. It resembles a delicate cloud, but is actually made up of gas and dust from which new stars are born. (Photo: ESA).
8. Galaxy PGC 54493. This beautiful spiral galaxy is located in the constellation Serpens. It has been studied by astronomers as an example of weak gravitational lensing, a physical phenomenon associated with the deflection of light rays in a gravitational field. The photo was taken on September 1st. (Photo: ESA).
9. Object SSTC2D J033038.2 + 303212. To give such a name to an object is, of course, something. Behind the incomprehensible and long numerical name is the so-called "young stellar object" or, in simple terms, a star being born. Amazingly, this nascent star is surrounded by a luminous spiral cloud containing the material from which it will be built. The picture was taken on August 25th. (Photo: ESA).
10. Several colorful galaxies of various colors and shapes. The Hubble Space Telescope photographed them on August 11. (Photo: ESA). 
11. Globular star cluster IC 4499. Globular clusters are made up of old stars, bound together by gravity, that move around their host galaxy. Such clusters usually consist of a large number of stars: from a hundred thousand to a million. The picture was taken on August 4th. (Photo: ESA).
12. Galaxy NGC 3501. This thin, luminous, accelerating galaxy is rushing towards another galaxy - NGC 3507. The photo was taken on July 21. (Photo: ESA).
Amazing photos taken by the Hubble Space Telescope can be found at Spacetelescope.org.
Today, on Cosmonautics Day, we will enjoy pictures of the Hubble orbital telescope, which has been in orbit of our planet for more than twenty years and continues to reveal to us the secrets of space to this day.
NGC 5194
Known as NGC 5194, this large galaxy with a well-developed spiral structure may have been the first spiral nebula to be discovered. It is clearly seen that its spiral arms and dust lanes pass in front of its companion galaxy, NGC 5195 (left). This pair is about 31 million light-years away and officially belongs to the small constellation Canes Venatici.
Spiral galaxy M33 is a medium-sized galaxy from the Local Group. M33 is also called the Triangulum galaxy after the constellation in which it resides. About 4 times smaller (in radius) than our Milky Way Galaxy and the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), M33 is much larger than many dwarf galaxies. Due to its proximity to M31, M33 is thought by some to be a satellite of this more massive galaxy. M33 is not far from the Milky Way, its angular dimensions are more than twice the dimensions of the full moon, i.e. it is perfectly visible with good binoculars.
Stephen's Quintet
Group of galaxies - Stephen's quintet. However, only four of the group of galaxies, located 300 million light-years away from us, participate in the cosmic dance, now approaching, then moving away from each other. It's pretty easy to find one. Four interacting galaxies - NGC 7319, NGC 7318A, NGC 7318B and NGC 7317 - have a yellowish color and curved loops and tails, the shape of which is due to the influence of destructive tidal gravitational forces. The bluish galaxy NGC 7320, above left, is much closer than the others, only 40 million light-years away.
Andromeda Galaxy is the closest giant galaxy to our Milky Way. Most likely our galaxy looks about the same as the Andromeda galaxy. These two galaxies dominate the Local Group of galaxies. The hundreds of billions of stars that make up the Andromeda galaxy together give a visible diffuse glow. The individual stars in the image are actually stars in our galaxy, much closer than the distant object. The Andromeda Galaxy is often referred to as M31, as it is the 31st object in Charles Messier's catalog of diffuse celestial objects.
Nebula Lagoon
The bright Lagoon Nebula contains many different astronomical objects. Objects of particular interest include a bright open star cluster and several active star forming regions. In visual observation, the light from the cluster is lost against the background of a general red glow caused by the emission of hydrogen, while dark filaments arise from the absorption of light by dense layers of dust.
The Cat's Eye Nebula (NGC 6543) is one of the most famous planetary nebulae in the sky. Its hauntingly symmetrical shapes are visible in the center of this spectacular false-color image, specially manipulated to show a huge but very faint halo of gaseous matter, about three light-years in diameter, that surrounds a bright, familiar planetary nebula.
The small constellation Chameleon is located near the south pole of the World. The picture reveals the amazing features of the humble constellation, which is full of dusty nebulae and colorful stars. Blue reflection nebulae are scattered across the field.
Cosmic dust clouds faintly glowing with reflected starlight. Far from our familiar places on planet Earth, they hide on the edge of the Cepheus Halo molecular cloud complex, 1200 light-years away from us. Nebula Sh2-136, located near the center of the field, is brighter than other ghostly visions. Its size is more than two light years, and it is visible even in infrared light.
The dark dusty Horsehead Nebula and the glowing Orion Nebula contrast in the sky. They are located at a distance of 1500 light years from us in the direction of the most recognizable celestial constellation. And in today's wonderful composite photo, the nebulae occupy opposite corners. The familiar Horsehead Nebula is a small dark cloud in the shape of a horse's head looming against the background of red glowing gas in the lower left corner of the picture.
crab nebula
This confusion remained after the explosion of the star. The Crab Nebula is the result of a supernova explosion that was observed in 1054 AD. The supernova remnant is filled with mysterious filaments. The filaments are not just complicated to look at. The Crab Nebula is ten light-years across. At the very center of the nebula is a pulsar - a neutron star with a mass equal to the mass of the Sun, which fits in an area the size of a small town.
This is a mirage from a gravitational lens. The bright red galaxy (LRG) pictured here has its gravity warped light from a more distant blue galaxy. Most often, such a distortion of light leads to the appearance of two images of a distant galaxy, but in the case of a very precise superposition of the galaxy and the gravitational lens, the images merge into a horseshoe - an almost closed ring. This effect was predicted by Albert Einstein 70 years ago.
Star V838 Mon
For unknown reasons, in January 2002, the outer envelope of the star V838 Mon suddenly expanded, making it the brightest star in the entire Milky Way. Then she became weak again, also suddenly. Astronomers have never seen a stellar flare like this before.
The birth of the planets
How are planets formed? To try and figure this out, the Hubble Space Telescope was tasked with taking a close look at one of the most interesting of all the nebulae in the sky, the Great Nebula of Orion. The Orion Nebula can be seen with the naked eye near the belt of the constellation Orion. The insets in this photo show numerous proplyds, many of which are stellar nurseries that likely host planetary systems in formation.
Star cluster R136
At the center of the star-forming region of 30 Doradus is a gigantic cluster of the largest, hottest, and most massive stars known to us. These stars form the R136 cluster in this visible-light image from the upgraded Hubble Space Telescope.
The brilliant NGC 253 is one of the brightest spiral galaxies we see, and at the same time one of the dustiest. Some call it the "Silver Dollar Galaxy" because in a small telescope it has the appropriate shape. Others simply call it "The Sculptor Galaxy" because it lies within the southern constellation Sculptor. This dusty galaxy is 10 million light-years away.
Galaxy M83
M83 is one of the closest spiral galaxies to us. From a distance that separates us from 15 million light years, it looks completely ordinary. However, if we look closer at the center of M83 with the largest telescopes, this area appears to us as a turbulent and noisy place.
Nebula Ring
It really looks like a ring in the sky. Therefore, hundreds of years ago, astronomers named this nebula according to its unusual shape. The Ring Nebula also has the designations M57 and NGC 6720. The Ring Nebula is classified as a planetary nebula, these are gas clouds that stars similar to the Sun throw out at the end of their lives. Its size exceeds the diameter. This is one of the earliest images of Hubble.
Pillar and jets in the Carina Nebula
This cosmic column of gas and dust is two light years wide. The structure is located in one of the largest star-forming regions in our Galaxy, the Carina Nebula, which is visible in the southern sky and is 7500 light-years away from us.
Center of the globular cluster Omega Centauri
In the center of the globular cluster Omega Centauri, the stars are packed ten thousand times denser than the stars in the vicinity of the Sun. The image shows many faint yellow-white stars, smaller than our Sun, several orange red giants, as well as occasional blue stars. If suddenly two stars collide, then one more massive star can form, or they form a new binary system.
Giant cluster distorts and splits the image of the galaxy
Many of them are images of a single unusual, bead-like blue ring galaxy, which by chance was located behind a giant cluster of galaxies. According to recent research, in total, at least 330 images of individual distant galaxies can be found in the picture. This stunning photograph of the galaxy cluster CL0024+1654 was taken by the Space Telescope. Hubble in November 2004.
Trifid Nebula
The beautiful multicolored Trifid Nebula allows you to explore cosmic contrasts. Also known as M20, it lies some 5,000 light-years away in the nebula-rich constellation of Sagittarius. The size of the nebula is about 40 light years.
Centaurus A
A fantastic bunch of young blue star clusters, giant glowing gas clouds and dark dust lanes surround the central region of the active galaxy Centaurus A. Centaurus A is close to Earth, at a distance of 10 million light years
Butterfly Nebula
Bright clusters and nebulae in planet Earth's night sky are often named after flowers or insects, and NGC 6302 is no exception. The central star of this planetary nebula is exceptionally hot, with a surface temperature of around 250,000 degrees Celsius.
An image of a supernova that exploded in 1994 on the outskirts of a spiral galaxy.
This remarkable cosmic portrait shows two colliding galaxies with merging spiral arms. Above and to the left of the large spiral galaxy of the NGC 6050 pair, a third galaxy can be seen, which is also likely to be involved in the interaction. All of these galaxies are about 450 million light-years away in the Hercules cluster of galaxies. At this distance, the image spans over 150,000 light-years. And although this view seems quite unusual, scientists now know that collisions and subsequent mergers of galaxies are not uncommon.
Spiral galaxy NGC 3521 lies just 35 million light-years away towards the constellation Leo. The galaxy, which spans 50,000 light-years, has features such as ragged, irregular spiral arms adorned with dust, pinkish star-forming regions, and clusters of young, bluish stars.
Although this unusual outlier was first seen in the early twentieth century, its origin is still a matter of debate. The picture above, taken in 1998 by the Hubble Space Telescope, clearly shows details of the jet's structure. The most popular hypothesis suggests that the source of the ejection was heated gas orbiting a massive black hole at the center of the galaxy.
Sombrero Galaxy
The appearance of the M104 galaxy resembles a hat, which is why it was called the Sombrero galaxy. The image shows distinct dark dust lanes and a bright halo of stars and globular clusters. The reasons why the Sombrero Galaxy looks like a hat are an unusually large central stellar bulge and dense dark lanes of dust located in the disk of the galaxy, which we can see almost edge-on.
M17 close-up view
Shaped by stellar winds and radiation, these fantastic wave-like formations are found in the M17 Nebula (Omega Nebula) and are part of a star forming region. The Omega Nebula lies in the nebula-rich constellation of Sagittarius and is 5,500 light-years away. Ragged clumps of dense and cold gas and dust are illuminated by the radiation of the stars in the image at the top right, in the future they can become sites of star formation.
What illuminates the nebula IRAS 05437+2502? So far, there is no definitive answer. Particularly puzzling is the bright, inverted V-shaped arc that marks the top edge of mountain-like interstellar dust clouds near the center of the image. All in all, this ghostly nebula contains a small star-forming region filled with dark dust. It was first seen in infrared images taken by the IRAS satellite in 1983. Shown here is a wonderful, recently published image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. Although it shows a lot of new details, the reason for the appearance of a bright, clear arc could not be established.
We present the most interesting and amazing photos of space for February 2013.
(21 photos of space + film in the depths of the milky way)
Most stars exist in the form of star clusters that have the same origin and age. Clusters of young stars glow bright blue.
A photograph of two star clusters M35 and NGC 2158 clearly demonstrates the visual differences between stellar communities in terms of age and degree of remoteness: a group of large stars twinkling with blue radiance is a young (150 million years) star cluster M35, located relatively close to our planet (about 2800 light years); NGC 2158 - the yellowish crowding at the bottom right of the image - is much older (1500 million years) and is located at four times the distance from Earth. 
On the crimson field of the constellation Scorpio, the silhouette of a falling tower appears with ominous dark contours. It is clouds of cosmic dust that sometimes take such bizarre shapes.
Against the background of the magnificent landscape of the constellation, the red supergiant Antares stands out, which is 700 times larger and 9 thousand times brighter than our star - the Sun.
Located in the very "heart" of the constellation Scorpio, Antares with its bright red glow reminds earthlings of Mars. 
A bright star, immersed in picturesque puffs of smoke, is a play of light waves and interstellar hydrogen. Thanks to the illusion of a raging fire, both the star and the nebula around it were named "Burning". 
NGC 7424 is rolling its luminous arms in the constellation of the Crane. The size of this galaxy is almost the same as the diameter of our Milky Way. The bright bluish lights of clusters of young stars emphasize the bewitchingly clear structure of the galaxy. Even the youngest and most massive stars will never get out of the tenacious "sleeves" of NGC 7424 - here they light up, here they are destined to go out. 
This superb image captures in all its cosmic beauty the usually faint, barely perceptible Medusa Nebula, floating in the depths of the cosmic ocean at a distance of about 5 thousand light-years from planet Earth. This nebula originated from the remnants of supernova IC 443. 
Surrounded by swirling cosmic dust and colored jets of gas, the NGC 602 nebula, captured in this beautiful photograph, lies at the very edge of the Small Magellanic Cloud. Its age is considered young - about 5 million years. Spirals of galaxies are visible in this frame, located several hundred million light-years from this nebula. 
This fantastic shot of reflecting nebula NGC 2170 in the equatorial constellation Monoceros looks like a surreal still life painted with bright strokes of cosmic dust. 
Another interesting photo of a beautiful spiral galaxy 100 million light years away from our Earth. Blue clusters of young stars and cosmic dust tails spiral around a yellowish core, a cluster of old stars. NGC 1309 is located on the outskirts of the constellation Eridanus. In diameter, NGC 1309 is three times smaller than the Milky Way. 
This magnificent cosmic picture gives a complete picture of the grandeur and beauty of the universe. The Orion (Barnard) Loop owes its appearance in space to supernova explosions and cosmic winds. A surprisingly bright inner glow is emitted by hydrogen atoms. The distance to the globe is approximately 1.5 thousand light years. 
Spiral NGC 4945 is not so far from planet Earth - only 13 million light years. NGC 4945 differs from our galaxy by having a core containing a black hole. 
William Herschel was able to discern in the constellation Sagittarius a nebula resembling a flower, "divided into three petals." The age of the Triple Nebula is considered young - only 300 thousand years. 
Against the motley starry background of the image, the Dark Thing nebula stretches like a long dark cloud, which can also be seen through powerful binoculars in the region of the constellation Mukha. The distance to this nebula is only 700 light years. The band is 30 light years long. The globular cluster of stars NGC 4372 is visible in the photo, at the bottom left. 
The image shows our closest cosmic "neighbor" - the Andromeda Nebula - in the form of a clear spiral disk. Only 2.5 million light years separate us from it. Andromeda is twice the size of our Milky Way. 
Another unusual cosmic picture in the Orion Nebula: through the clubs of cosmic clouds, taking on the most fantastic forms, lights peep through, and only the star LL Orion shines openly and boldly. 
M106 is 23.5 million light years away from us. The core of M106 holds approximately 36 million solar masses. 
This scenic portrait of the Large Magellanic Cloud at the top right captures the largest and most beautiful star forming region of N11, where new stars continue to be born among old stars and clouds of cosmic dust. 
A distance of only 1350 light-years makes it possible to see the Orion Nebula as a blurry spot and without the help of any complex optical devices. All astronomers of northern latitudes like to study this nebula in winter. 
The Mars rover Curiosity took its own portrait in the Martian region of Yellowknife Bay. He had just received a soil sample through the hole seen in the photo at the "feet" of the robot. 
February 15, 2013 , comparable in scale to the famous Tunguska meteorite that fell to earth in 1908.
Having flown over the outskirts of Chelyabinsk at an altitude of 20-30 km, the celestial body exploded (explosion power - about 500 kt), blinding a vast territory with a bright flash. The estimated mass of the Chelyabinsk meteorite is about 10 thousand tons. 
A giant spiral funnel in the constellation Canis Hounds was discovered in 1773 by Charles Messier. The galaxy NGC 5194 has two branches, at the end of one of them is a small satellite galaxy NGC 5195. 
Film Deep in the Milky Way (BBC)
