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Our planet Earth is part of the solar system located in the Milky Way galaxy. Many other galaxies are located millions of light years away from our home. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has shared several pictures of our neighboring galaxies and galaxies located far beyond our reach.
Take a look at some of the one billion galaxies in our universe through these images taken by NASA.
Pictures of galaxies by NASA
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This image of the nearby galaxy Messier 81 was taken by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. This galaxy is located in the northern constellation of Ursa Major (which includes the Big Dipper). Skywatchers who want to enjoy the view of this galaxy can look at this neighbor with the help of binoculars or a small telescope.
M81 is located 12 million light-years away. It was one of the first datasets released publicly, shortly after Spitzer’s launch in August 2003.
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This image was created with the help of data collected by the European Southern Observatory and the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment. The thousands of lines shown in the image are magnetic fields observed by NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA).
These magnetic fields are shown as stream lines on an image of the galaxy taken at visible and submillimeter wavelengths by the European Southern Observatory and the Atacama Pathfinder experiment (orange).
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The spectacular image of the Cartwheel Galaxy is the result of intricate details captured by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. The image shows star formation and the galaxy’s central black hole.
Webb’s powerful infrared vision produced this detailed image of the Cartwheel and two smaller companion galaxies against a background of many other galaxies.
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This NASA image shows a stunning view of the neighboring spiral galaxy Andromeda, also known as M31, in ultraviolet light. Scientists created the image from an input of 330 images from Swift’s ultraviolet/optical telescope. Nearly 20,000 ultraviolet sources are visible in the image, including M32, a smaller galaxy in orbit around M31.
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The photo shows a view of several galaxies, which appear as blue dots. This region of galaxies is known as the Cosmos region. Most of these galaxies host supermassive black holes that emit high-energy X-rays. The black holes were detected by NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Array, or NuSTAR, which observed 32 such black holes in this region and has observed hundreds across the sky so far. Apart from the blue dots, the other colored dots are galaxies that host low-energy X-ray emitting black holes.
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Published: July 07, 2024, 02:50 PM IST
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