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HUBBLE
@HUBBLE_space24 Apr 2020
1/6 Here it is! The anniversary image of #Hubble30 features the giant nebula NGC 2014 and its neighbour NGC 2020, part of a vast star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Credit: @NASA / @ESA and @stsci spacetelescope.org/news/heic…
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Happy #Saturday everyone. Hope everyone is keeping safe and well. This is planetary nebula CVMP 1, located 6,500 lightyears away in the southern constellation of Circinus, the Compass. skyatnightmagazine.com/news/…
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Maxime Duprez@maximaxoo24 Mar 2020
#Space: M64, the Black Eye #galaxy, #Sauron's eye on the #Cosmos! hubblesite.org/gallery/album… via @HubbleTelescope
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Jason Major@JPMajor23 Mar 2020
Here's a view of some of the interacting galaxies in HCG 92, aka Stephan's Quintet, made from Hubble observations from Oct. 2011 (PI Sarah Gallagher). The galaxies at the bottom (NGC 7318A and NGC 7318B, on left) and NGC 7319 (right) are ~290 million light-years away from us.
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HUBBLE
@HUBBLE_space18 Mar 2020
This cloud of gas and dust, near the outskirts of the famous Tarantula Nebula, as well as the many young and massive stars surrounding it, is the perfect laboratory to study the origin of massive stars. Credit: @NASA / @ESA socsi.in/cl882
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Happy #Saturday! This is spiral galaxy NGC 5468, located 130 million lightyears away, known to host numerous exploding stars known as supernovae. skyatnightmagazine.com/news/…
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Happy #Saturday! This is the Cat's Paw Nebula, located about 5,500 lightyears away. Also known as NGC 6334, the nebula got its nickname due to its supposed resemblance to a feline foot. What do you think? Credit: ESO/R. Gendler & R.M. Hannahoe
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Happy #Saturday! This is spiral galaxy NGC 2008, located about 425 million lightyears from Earth. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Bellini
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NASA
@NASA22 Feb 2020
How metal are you? If you’re the Sombrero Galaxy, @NASAHubble says you’re pretty metal, but in unusual ways, and you’re raising some cosmic questions: go.nasa.gov/39QMdnR
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Happy #Saturday! Not all galaxies are the same, as seen in this new image captured by the VLT of spiral NGC 470 and elliptical NGC 474. skyatnightmagazine.com/space…
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Happy #Saturday! This image shows a black hole within a host galaxy (the pink spot near the centre) around 9.9 billion lightyears away. Hot gas swirling around the black hole generates large amounts of X-rays, seen in red. skyatnightmagazine.com/space…
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HUBBLE
@HUBBLE_space3 Feb 2020
This eye-catching galaxy is known as NGC 5364. Unmistakably a spiral, NGC 5364 is also "a grand design spiral galaxy" — a name deserved by only one-tenth of spirals. Credit: @ESA / @Hubble_Space / @NASA , L. Ho socsi.in/WSEnK
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Happy #Saturday! This is galaxy NGC 5468; a glorious vision of a spiral galaxy perfectly positioned for the Hubble Space Telescope to capture a face-on view. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, A. Riess et al. Acknowledgements: Judy Schmidt (Geckzilla)
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A #supermoon is approaching! Pete Lawrence reveals the science behind the perigee: skyatnightmagazine.com/advic…
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NASA
@NASA29 Jan 2020
The Tarantula Nebula was one of the first targets studied by @NASAspitzer after its launch in 2003. Now that the infrared observatory is set to be retired on Jan. 30, scientists have generated a new view of the nebula from Spitzer data. 🕷️go.nasa.gov/36whWbL
This image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Tarantula Nebula in two wavelengths of infrared light. The red regions indicate the presence of particularly hot gas, while the blue regions are interstellar dust that is similar in composition to ash from coal or wood-burning fires on Earth.

ALT This image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Tarantula Nebula in two wavelengths of infrared light. The red regions indicate the presence of particularly hot gas, while the blue regions are interstellar dust that is similar in composition to ash from coal or wood-burning fires on Earth.

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Happy #Saturday! The Perseus Molecular Cloud is a 500 lightyear-wide region containing over 10,000 solar masses of gas and dust. #SpitzerSpaceTelescope's infrared vision peers through the dense mass to view stellar objects within. #SpitzerFinalVoyage skyatnightmagazine.com/space…
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HUBBLE
@HUBBLE_space14 Jan 2020
ESA/Hubble #Flashback: Located about one billion light-years away in the constellation of Eridanus, this striking galaxy — known as LO95 0313-192 — has a spiral shape similar to that of the Milky Way. Credit: @ESA / @Hubble_Space / @NASA socsi.in/osCCX
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HUBBLE
@HUBBLE_space6 Jan 2020
This Picture of the Week shows a close-up view of a galaxy named NGC 2770. NGC 2770 is intriguing, as over time it has hosted four different observed supernovae (not visible here). Credit: @ESA / @Hubble_Space / @NASA , A. Filippenko socsi.in/JPC0k
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NASA
@NASA1 Jan 2020
Like a #NewYearsEve firework, a galaxy 23 million-light years away is burning itself out in a pyrotechnic display 🎆 involving a giant black hole, shock waves and invisible arms of hot gas. Take a closer look from @chandraxray's front row view: go.nasa.gov/2SHF3Nu
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HUBBLE
@HUBBLE_space29 Dec 2019
This smattering of celestial sequins is a spiral galaxy named NGC 4455, located in the northern constellation of Coma Berenices (Berenice's Hair). Credit: @ESA / @Hubble_Space / @NASA , I. Karachentsev et al. socsi.in/Xxmvs
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