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Space is not only mysterious but also holds secrets of many new objects and astronomical phenomena, which amaze science lovers. High-definition cameras and telescopes mounted in satellites sent by various space stations help us discover new mysteries from time to time.
Be it the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Indian Space Research Organization, the European Space Agency or anyone else, they spend billions of dollars sending satellites into space and discovering new things for us to see.
Check out these five spectacular space photos posted on NASA’s Instagram handle, which keeps us updated with all the happenings in space.
NASA clicked the inner rings of Saturn on the night side of the planet through its Cassini spacecraft. The southern hemisphere appears illuminated by sunlight reflected from the rings, while the northern half shines more dimly in the faint light scattered across the upper half of the planet as filtered by the rings.
In this image, the planet is overhead on the left, while its rings glow in shades of gold on the right. The rings closest to the planet appear faint, gradually becoming thicker near the center of the rings and fading back to faint at the outer edges.
Newborn star – a protostar:
The image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows a light-year-long clump of interstellar gas and dust that resembles a caterpillar—a newborn star—a protostar.
Looking deeper, one can see that stars form in large clouds of gas and dust called molecular clouds, which are cool and clustered together. Eventually, gravity causes some of these clusters to collapse. When this happens, friction causes the material to heat up, eventually forming a protostar. In the image, there is a tall, bright blue cloud of gas and dust with a bright core in the center.
In the third, NASA, with the help of the Hubble Space Telescope, clicked an image of the eerie glow of a dead star that had exploded into a supernova long ago. The sinister-looking object still has a pulse and at the center is the heart of the star, beating with rhythmic precision.
Known as a neutron star, it has a mass similar to that of the Sun, but is confined to an ultra-dense region just a few miles across. The small powerhouse is the bright star-like object in the center of the image.
The fourth image has been clicked by the Hubble Space Telescope which has studied a bright pair of galactic “eyes” – which are actually two colliding galaxies known as Arp 107. According to estimates, Arp 107 is located approximately 465 million light years away and the merger of the pair will take approximately hundreds of millions of years to complete.
The final image in the series is of the iconic Hubble Ultra Deep Field, taken by NASA and ESA. The image shows the black background of space, dotted with thousands of galaxies of all shapes and sizes. The larger galaxy is spiral shaped, while the other is spindle shaped as the galaxy appears edge-on. The small galaxy has a line pointing to the words “Supermassive Black Hole” that connects to a bright white spot in the middle of it.
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