Posts Tagged ‘galaxy’

Cosmic Horseshoe

Credit: NASA/ESA Hubble

A blue cos­mic horse­shoe rings a mas­sive galaxy in this image from the NASA/ESA Hub­ble Space Telescope.

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Gravity’s Sculpture

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA

Grav­ity sculpts time and space into an arc in this NASA/ESA Hub­ble Space Tele­scope image of a deep view of the universe.

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Spectacular dust

Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hub­ble Her­itage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Col­lab­o­ra­tion. Acknowl­edg­ment: R. O’Connell (Uni­ver­sity of Vir­ginia) and the WFC3 Sci­en­tific Over­sight Committee

With a wide swath of thick dust hid­ing its mid­dle, Cen­tau­rus A dazzles.

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A spinning beauty

Credit: NASA, ESA/Hub­ble

Mil­lions of stars dance slowly to pro­duce the spin­ning beauty known as IC 391.

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Galactic Zoo

Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hub­ble Her­itage Team (STScI/AURA)

Far away in the dark lies this diverse galac­tic zoo.

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Welcome

The ancient peo­ples saw pic­tures in the sky. From those pat­terns in the heav­ens, ancient sto­ry­tellers cre­ated leg­ends about heroes, maid­ens, drag­ons, bears, cen­taurs, dogs and myth­i­cal crea­tures…
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