NASA celebrates the Cosmos

NASA celebrates the reboot of COSMOS by releasing incredible space images: This Hubble photo (above) is of a small portion of one of the largest seen star-birth regions in the galaxy, the Carina Nebula. Towers of cool hydrogen laced with dust rise from the wall of the nebula. Picture: NASA/ Flickr

Enter the Vortex … in Psychedelic Colour. Picture: NASA/ Flickr

Magnificent CME Erupts on the Sun with Earth to Scale. Picture: NASA/ Flickr

A Dying Star Shrouded by a Blanket of Hailstones Forms the Bug Nebula.The Bug Nebula, is one of the brightest and most extreme planetary nebulae known. The fiery, dying star at its center is shrouded by a blanket of icy hailstones. Picture: NASA/ Flickr

Pipsqueak Star Unleashes Monster Flare. Picture: NASA/ Flickr

The Crab Nebula is a supernova remnant, all that remains of a tremendous stellar explosion. Observers in China and Japan recorded the supernova nearly 1,000 years ago, in 1054. Picture: NASA/ Flickr

The incredible Horsehead Nebula looks like a cosmic cloud. Picture: NASA/Flickr

Hubble Views Stellar Genesis in the Southern Pinwheel: JANUARY 9, 2014: The vibrant magentas and blues in this Hubble image of the barred spiral galaxy M83 reveal that the galaxy is ablaze with star formation. The galactic panorama unveils a tapestry of the drama of stellar birth and death. The galaxy, also known as the Southern Pinwheel, lies 15 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra. Picture: NASA/ Flickr

The eerie blue false colour view of Mercury, This colorful view of Mercury was produced by using images from the color base map imaging campaign during MESSENGER’s primary mission. These colors are not what Mercury would look like to the human eye, but rather the colors enhance the chemical, mineralogical, and physical differences between the rocks that make up Mercury’s surface. Picture: NASA/ Flickr

Preview of a Forthcoming Supernova: The larger of the two stars in the Eta Carinae system is a huge and unstable star that is nearing the end of its life, and the event that the 19th century astronomers observed was a stellar near-death experience. Scientists call these outbursts supernova impostor events, because they appear similar to supernovae but stop just short of destroying their star.. Picture: NASA/ Flickr

Young Stellar Grouping in Cygnus X, The combined outflows and ultraviolet radiation from the region’s numerous massive stars have heated and pushed gas away from the clusters, producing cavities of hot, lower-density gas. . Picture: NASA/ Flickr

A Star-Formation Laboratory: The dwarf galaxy NGC 4214 is ablaze with young stars and gas clouds. Located around 10 million light-years away in the constellation of Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs), the galaxy’s close proximity, combined with the wide variety of evolutionary stages among the stars, make it an ideal laboratory to research the triggers of star formation and evolution. Picture: NASA/ Flickr

Hubble mages Searchlight Beams from a Preplanetary Nebula: This Hubble image of the Egg Nebula shows one of the best views to date of this brief but dramatic phase in a star’s life. Picture: NASA/ Flickr

Aurora Over Whitehorse, Yukon. Swirls of green and red appear in an aurora over Whitehorse, Yukon on the night of September 3, 2012. The aurora was due to a coronal mass ejection from the sun, which erupted on August 31. Picture: NASA/Flickr

Europa’s Hidden Ice Chemistry: The icy surface of Europa is shown strewn with cracks, ridges and “chaotic terrain,” where the surface has been disrupted and ice blocks have moved around. New laboratory experiments show that water ice and frozen sulfur dioxide react even at the frigid temperatures of Europa. Because the reaction occurs without the aid of radiation, it could take place throughout the moon’s thick ice layer—an outcome that would revamp current thinking about the chemistry and geology of this moon and perhaps others. Picture: NASA/ Flickr

NASA’s Hubble Sees A Majestic Disk of Stars: A bright cusp of starlight marks the galaxy’s center. Spiraling outward are dust lanes that are silhouetted against the population of whitish middle-aged stars. Much younger blue stars trace the spiral arms. Picture: NASA/ Flickr

The Cat’s Eye Nebula, one of the first planetary nebulae discovered, also has one of the most complex forms known to this kind of nebula. Eleven rings, or shells, of gas make up the Cat’s Eye. Picture: NASA/ Flickr

Hubble reveals the Ring Nebula’s true shape: In this composite image, visible-light observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope are combined with infrared data from the ground-based Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona to assemble a dramatic view of the well-known Ring Nebula. Picture: NASA/ Flickr

Black Hole Caught Red-Handed in a Stellar Homicide: This computer-simulated image shows gas from a tidally shredded star falling into a black hole. Some of the gas also is being ejected at high speeds into space. Picture: NASA/ Flickr

Hubble Catches Jupiter’s Largest Moon Going to the ‘Dark Side’. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has caught Jupiter’s moon Ganymede playing a game of “peek-a-boo.” In this crisp Hubble image, Ganymede is shown just before it ducks behind the giant planet. Picture: NASA/ Flickr

A night time view of Australia and Asia, titled Earth as a Black Marble – Asia and Australia. Picture: NASA/ Flickr

 

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