The mysterious world of space has fascinated humans for centuries. As scientists continue to explore space, the quest to find answers to unsolved mysteries continues. To make common people aware of the wonders of space, the National Aeronautics of Space Administration (NASA) keeps sharing pictures of different celestial bodies and galaxies. Here are the top 5 pictures shared by NASA.
Top 10 photos shared by NASA
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In this NASA image of Jupiter, the giant planet can be seen drenched in aurora lights. The image was clicked in infrared light by the NASA Hubble Space Telescope. Auroras are formed when high-energy particles enter a planet’s atmosphere near its magnetic poles and collide with atoms
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This photo captures the Carina Nebula, a dynamic star formation region in space. Located about 7,600 light-years away, the region is nothing less than a star factory. This photo was captured using the NASA Hubble Space Telescope.
Nebulae are made of dust and gases, which can be pulled together into clumps by gravity. Eventually, a clump will grow so large that it will collapse from gravity, leaving the material at its center hotter. That hot core is the beginning of a star.
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This image captures a rare view of a cloud filled with bubbles of gas and dust. Each bubble is filled with hundreds to thousands of young, massive stars that inflate the dense clouds of gas and dust.
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NGC 604 is another star-forming region containing more than 200 of the hottest, most massive stars known. There are no regions like this in our own galaxy, making NGC 604 an ideal place for astronomers to study young, massive stars.
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This image captures a rare view of Herbig-Haro 46/47, a pair of actively forming stars. The telescope’s stunning images showing previously unseen corners of the universe were made possible thanks to its 21-foot segmented mirror, which had to unfold and assemble itself in space after launch.
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Cassiopeia A, a supernova remnant, is home to one of the most energetic particles—cosmic rays, which are composed primarily of protons moving at the speed of light. Young supernovae have strong magnetic fields and the highest-energy cosmic rays.
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The Sun emitted a moderate-sized solar flare that peaked on June 22, 2015. This image was taken by NASA’s Goddard Solar Dynamics Observatory, which continuously monitors the Sun.
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Most galaxies contain a black hole. The photo shows a tidal disruption event in the Centaurus A galaxy, when a star got too close to the black hole, causing gravitational tides to rip away the star’s gaseous material.
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V838 Monoceriotis is a distant star located at the outer edge of the Milky Way galaxy about 20,000 light-years from Earth. The extended light from the never-before-seen spirals of dust is called a light echo.
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The image of the supernova remnant was created using NASA Chandra X-ray data. The image shows the bright light emanating from 30 Doradus b (30 Dor b for short), which is part of a larger region of space where stars have been continuously forming for the past 8 to 10 million years.
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Published: July 01, 2024, 02:53 PM IST
