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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) keeps sharing images of celestial bodies, planets, nebulae, the moon, star clusters, interacting galaxies, etc. from space. Most of these images are taken by NASA’s James Webb Telescope, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, and NASA’s Chandra Space Observatory.
Here are some pictures taken by NASA from space, shared to give you a glimpse of a world full of mysteries and hidden secrets.
5 NASA images
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This NASA image shows debris from the Large Magellanic Cloud called SNR 0519. Scientists use explosions like these to measure the distance to galaxies billions of light-years away.
The combined image shows a translucent cherry-red spot floating in a dark sky filled with glowing white and gold stars. Inside the supernova remnant, there is a thin ring of grayish clouds with green, blue and purple hues.
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The complex nebula, N44, is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, about 170,000 light-years from Earth. It is filled with glowing hydrogen gas, dark bands of dust, and countless stars of varying ages.
However, one of its most distinctive features is the dark, starry “superbubble” visible near the top of this image taken by the NASA Hubble Space Telescope. This nebula is filled with distant stars of varying colors and sizes.
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The cosmic fireworks image taken by the NASA space agency shows a protostar in the Taurus constellation, 460 light-years from Earth. A protostar is a collection of interstellar gas and dust whose gravitational pull causes it to collapse in on itself and form a star.
This protostar is growing into the neck of the bell-shaped disk, and is accreting material from a thin protoplanetary disk, which can be seen here as a dark line along the edge.
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Image taken by NASA of 30 Doradus, a star-forming region also known as the Tarantula Nebula. As the name suggests, the 30 Doradus Nebula can be seen with its long, intricate filaments of dust. It is the largest and brightest region near the Milky Way galaxy – and it is home to some of the hottest, most massive stars we have ever seen.
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The stunning image of the Caldwell 20 Nebula, captured in visible and infrared light by the Digitized Sky Survey and NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, shows a cloud of ionized gases that emit energy at wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum, causing it to glow in vibrant colors.
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Published: July 31, 2024, 01:17 PM IST
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