Space Pics v.3

[Capt.Kangaroo]

Awesome pic asft...

[ilan]

Briefly in March of 2016, a long coronal hole looked on Earth. These features emerge when the solar magnetic field reaches up and out into the cosmos. The effect — solar winds carrying solar material mix with Earth's magnetic field creating a geomagnetic storm. Results of this storm include satellite exposure to radiation (causing communications interference) as well as possible gorgeous auroral displays. Credit: NASA/GSFC/Solar Dynamics Observatory

[ilan]

Explanation: Newborn stars are forming in the Eagle Nebula. This image, taken with the Hubble Space Telescope in 1995, shows evaporating gaseous globules (EGGs) emerging from pillars of molecular hydrogen gas and dust. The giant pillars are light years in length and are so dense that interior gas contracts gravitationally to form stars. At each pillars' end, the intense radiation of bright young stars causes low density material to boil away, leaving stellar nurseries of dense EGGs exposed. The Eagle Nebula, associated with the open star cluster M16, lies about 7000 light years away. The pillars of creation were imaged again in 2007 by the orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope in infrared light, leading to the conjecture that the pillars may already have been destroyed by a local supernova, but light from that event has yet to reach the Earth.

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Ilan: I would give it the name "The Dog begging Nebula"...

[Capt.Kangaroo]

thanks ilan...

[Kimbo]

Very nice......

[Capt.Kangaroo]

A Dust Angel Nebula

The combined light of stars along the Milky Way are reflected by these cosmic dust clouds that soar some 300 light-years or so above the plane of our galaxy. Dubbed the Angel Nebula, the faint apparition is part of an expansive complex of dim and relatively unexplored, diffuse molecular clouds. Commonly found at high galactic latitudes, the dusty galactic cirrus can be traced over large regions toward the North and South Galactic poles. Along with the refection of starlight, studies indicate the dust clouds produce a faint reddish luminescence, as interstellar dust grains convert invisible ultraviolet radiation to visible red light. Also capturing nearby Milky Way stars and an array of distant background galaxies, the deep, wide-field 3x5 degree image spans about 10 Full Moons across planet Earth's sky toward the constellation Ursa Major.

Image Credit & Copyright: Rogelio Bernal Andreo (Deep Sky Colors)

[Marley]

i like thanks

[Marley]

Candy-Colored BubbleThe Bubble Nebula, also known as NGC 7653, is an emission nebula located 8,000 light-years away. This stunning new image, released on Thursday, was captured to celebrate Hubble’s 26th year in space.

[Marley]

Cosmic OpalThis bubble is a planetary nebula called NGC 6818, also known as the Little Gem Nebula. It sits roughly 6,000 light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius and is just over half a light-year wide.

[ilan]

Carina Nebula
This huge picture of the Carina Nebula, one of the most dynamic, complex places we know of in the Milky Way, was created by stitching together 32 Hubble images and linking them with data from the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. Hubble's view of the nebula shows star birth in a new level of detail. The fantasy-like landscape of the nebula is sculpted by the action of outflowing winds and scorching ultraviolet radiation from the monster stars that inhabit this inferno. (From Hubblesite.org)