Video: Uncharted galaxies and mysterious nebulae: unique images from the Hubble telescope
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Edwin Hubble is an outstanding American astronomer, thanks to whom the world learned that the Universe stretches further than our Milky Way galaxy. During his scientific career, the scientist made many discoveries in the field of astronomy, and also designed an automatic observatory, which was launched into Earth's orbit in 1990. Telescope got the name Hubble in honor of its creator. For several years, every year on the eve of Christmas, a series of photographs has appeared on the network, which capture the most important astronomical discoveries.
This year's Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar includes images of many space phenomena. One of them is a snapshot showing a pair of overlapping galaxies. In fact, they are tens of millions of light-years apart, roughly ten times the distance between our Milky Way and the neighboring Andromeda galaxy. The image shows that galaxies behave relatively calmly and have different trajectories.
Another picture shows the so-called "red rectangle". This cosmic phenomenon is known as the protoplanetary nebula. The star located in the center resembles the Sun, but already at the end of its "life". The hot white dwarf causes the surrounding gases to glow. The unusual rectangle is located at a distance of 2300 light-years from Earth in the constellation of the Unicorn.
In the following photos, the telescope captured the process of the birth of a new star, accompanied by powerful explosions, as well as the giant planet Jupiter, along which the satellite planet Io passes. The black spot on Jupiter is a shadow cast by a satellite moving at a speed of about 17 km per second.
Similar to the cometary flares that we can observe from Earth, the new stars in the following photograph also have luminous "tails." These "tails" are nothing more than dense interstellar gas.
Another mesmerizing image taken with the Hubble telescope is the Cat's Eye Nebula in the constellation Draco. Thanks to the images, scientists were able to identify the internal structure of the nebula: a double star system inside, as well as concentric circles of gas, which, apparently, formed at intervals of several hundred years.
By the way, space images taken by the Hubble telescope inspired astrophysicist Alex Harrison Parker to create his own interpretation of Van Gogh's paintings.
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