A team of NASA-funded scientists recently detected aurora-like radio bursts roughly 25,000 miles (40,000 km) above a sunspot. This region is relatively cool, dark, and magnetically active.
With just over 2-years of service under its belt, the James Webb Space Telescope continues to dazzle, and its latest image of NGC 604 is no exception. This star-forming region is located in the Triangulum galaxy (M33), roughly 2.73 million light-years away from Earth.
NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured Magellanic spiral galaxy LEDA 42160 located 52 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo. This galaxy is forcing its way through the comparatively dense gas in the Virgo cluster, and the forces exerted are also known as ram pressure.
NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope observes spiral galaxy NGC 4423, located 55 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo, with an oddly deceiving tubular shape. This is due to not viewing the galaxy from a face-on perspective, which would then curving arms sweeping out from a bright center.
NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a cluster of young, ultra-bright stars in the stellar nursery known as N81 located 200,000 light-years from Earth in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). The latter is a small irregular satellite galaxy of our Milky Way and one of the most distant objects visible to the naked eye.
NASA has just released three new sonifications that let you hear what the infamous cosmic hand and other galaxies sound like. Put simply, this refers to the process of translating data into sounds, and in the case of telescopes, scientific data is collected from space as digital signals that are commonly turned into visual imagery.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope recently captured an image of barred spiral galaxy, classified as NGC 1559, that some may consider a galactic treasury. It’s located 35 million light-years from Earth in the southern constellation Reticulum (The Reticule).
NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of a densely populated globular cluster known as NGC 1841, located 162,000 light-years from Earth within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). On a related note, the Milky Way galaxy is actually orbited by tens of known satellite galaxies that are far closer than Andromeda, the largest and brightest of which is the LMC.