New pictures of the hubble. The best pictures of the Hubble telescope in recent years

03.12.2020

For 24 years now, the Hubble Space Telescope has been in orbit of the Earth, thanks to which scientists have made many discoveries and helped us to better understand the Universe. However, Hubble telescope photography is not only a tool for scientific researchers, but also a pleasure for lovers of space and its secrets. It must be admitted that the universe looks amazing in telescope images. See the most recent photos from the Hubble Telescope.

12 PHOTOS

1. Galaxy NGC 4526.

Behind the soulless name NGC 4526 is a small galaxy located in the so-called Virgo Cluster of Galaxies. This refers to the constellation Virgo. “The black dust belt, combined with the clear glow of the galaxy, creates the effect of the so-called halo in the dark void of space,” this image was described on the website of the European Space Agency (ESA). The picture was taken on October 20, 2014. (Photo: ESA).

2. Large Magellanic Cloud.

The image shows only part of the Large Magellanic Cloud - one of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way. It is visible from Earth, but unfortunately does not look as impressive as in the photographs of the Hubble Telescope, which "showed people delightful rotating clouds of gas and shining stars," - writes ESA. The picture was taken on October 13. (Photo: ESA).

3. Galaxy NGC 4206.

Another galaxy from the constellation Virgo. Do you see many small blue dots in the image around the central part of the galaxy? Stars are born. Amazing, right? The picture was taken on October 6. (Photo: ESA).

4. Star AG Carina.

This star in the constellation Carina is at the final stage of the evolution of absolute brightness. It is millions of times brighter than the sun. The Hubble Space Telescope photographed her on September 29. (Photo: ESA).

5. Galaxy NGC 7793.

NGC 7793 is spiral galaxy in the constellation Sculptor, which is 13 million light-years from Earth. The picture was taken on September 22. (Photo: ESA).

6. Galaxy NGC 6872.

NGC 6872 is located in the constellation Peacock, which lies at the edge of the Milky Way. Its unusual shape is caused by the impact on it of a smaller galaxy - IC 4970, which is visible in the image directly above it. These galaxies are 300 million light-years from Earth. Hubble photographed them on September 15th. (Photo: ESA).

7. Galactic anomaly IC 55.

This image, taken on September 8, shows a very unusual galaxy IC 55 with anomalies: bright blue "bursts" of stars and an irregular shape. It resembles a delicate cloud, but in fact it consists of gas and dust, from which new stars are born. (Photo: ESA).

8. Galaxy PGC 54493.

This beautiful spiral galaxy is located in the constellation Serpent. It has been studied by astronomers as an example of weak gravitational lensing, a physical phenomenon associated with the deflection of light rays in a gravity field. Photo taken on September 1st. (Photo: ESA).

9. Object SSTC2D J033038.2 + 303212.

To give such a name to an object is certainly something. Behind the incomprehensible and long numerical name is the so-called "young stellar object" or, in a simple way, a nascent star. Stunningly, this nascent star is surrounded by a luminous spiral cloud containing the material from which it will be built. Photo taken on August 25. (Photo: ESA).

10. Several colorful galaxies of different colors and shapes. The Hubble Space Telescope photographed them on August 11. (Photo: ESA).

11. Globular star cluster IC 4499.

Globular clusters are made up of gravity-bound old stars that move around their main galaxy. Such clusters usually consist of a large number of stars: from one hundred thousand to a million. Photo taken on 4 August. (Photo: ESA).

12. Galaxy NGC 3501.

This thin, luminous, accelerating galaxy is racing towards another galaxy - NGC 3507. Photo taken on July 21st. (Photo: ESA).

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Mysterious nebulae, millions of light-years away, the birth of new stars and the collision of galaxies. A selection of the best photos from the Hubble Space Telescope in recent times.

1. Dark nebulae in a cluster of young stars. Shown here is a patch of star cluster in the Eagle Nebula that formed about 5.5 million years ago and lies 6500 light-years from Earth. (ESA Photo | Hubble & NASA):

2. The giant galaxy NGC 7049, located at a distance of 100 million light-years from Earth, in the Indian constellation. (Photo by NASA, ESA and W. Harris - McMaster University, Ontario, Canada):

3. The Sh2-106 emission nebula is located two thousand light-years from Earth. It is a compact star-forming region. In its center is the star S106 IR, which is surrounded by dust and hydrogen - in the photograph it is painted in a conditional blue color. (Photo by NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team, STScI | AURA, and NAOJ):

4. Abell 2744, also known as the Pandora Cluster, is a giant cluster of galaxies, the result of a simultaneous collision of at least four separate small galaxy clusters that took place over 350 million years. The galaxies in the cluster make up less than five percent of its mass, the gas (about 20%) is so hot that it glows only in the X-ray range. Mysterious dark matter makes up about 75% of the mass of the cluster. (Photo by NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz, M. Mountain, A. Koekemoer, & the HFF Team):

5. "Caterpillar" and emission nebula Carina (region of ionized hydrogen) in the constellation Carina. (Photo by NASA, ESA, N. Smith, University of California, Berkeley, and The Hubble Heritage Team. STScI | AURA):

6. Barred spiral galaxy NGC 1566 (SBbc) in the constellation Dorado. It is located 40 million light years from us. (Photo by ESA | Hubble & NASA, Flickr user Det58):

7. IRAS 14568-6304 is a young star located 2500 light-years from Earth. This dark region is the molecular cloud Circinus, which has 250,000 solar masses and is filled with gas, dust and young stars. (ESA Photo | Hubble & NASA Acknowledgments: R. Sahai | JPL, Serge Meunier):

8. Portrait of a star kindergarten. Hundreds of brilliant blue stars covered in warm, glowing clouds are R136, a compact star cluster that sits at the center of the Tarantula Nebula.

Cluster R136 is composed of young stars, giants and supergiants, which are estimated to be approximately 2 million years old. (Photo by NASA, ESA, and F. Paresce, INAF-IASF, Bologna, R. O "Connell, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, and the Wide Field Camera 3 Science Oversight Committee):

9. Spiral galaxy NGC 7714 in the constellation Pisces. It is located at a distance of 100 million light years from Earth. (Photo ESA, NASA, A. Gal-Yam, Weizmann Institute of Science):

10. The image taken by the Hubble Orbiting Telescope shows the warm planetary Red Spider Nebula, also known as NGC 6537.

This unusual undulating structure is located about 3000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius. The planetary nebula is an astronomical object consisting of an ionized shell of gas and a central star, a white dwarf. They are formed during the ejection of the outer layers of red giants and supergiants with masses up to 1.4 solar masses at the final stage of their evolution. (Photo ESA & Garrelt Mellema, Leiden University, the Netherlands):

11. The Horsehead Nebula is a dark nebula in the constellation Orion. One of the most famous nebulae. It is visible as a dark spot in the shape of a horse's head against a red glow. This glow is attributed to the ionization of hydrogen clouds behind the nebula under the influence of radiation from the nearest bright star (ζ Orion). (Photo by NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team, AURA | STScI):

12. This image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows the nearest spiral galaxy NGC 1433 in the constellation Clock. It is located at a distance of 32 million light years from us, and belongs to the type of very active galaxies / (Photo by Space Scoop | ESA | Hubble & NASA, D. Calzetti, UMass and the LEGU.S. Team):

13. Rare cosmic phenomenon - Einstein's ring, resulting from the fact that the gravity of a massive body bends electromagnetic radiation going towards the Earth from a more distant object.

Einstein's general theory of relativity states that the gravity of such large cosmic objects as galaxies bends the space around it and deflects rays of light. This creates a distorted image of another galaxy - a light source. The galaxy that bends space is called a gravitational lens. (ESA Photo | Hubble & NASA):

14. Nebula NGC 3372 in the constellation Carina. A large, bright nebula that has several open star clusters within its borders. (Photo by NASA, ESA, M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team, STScI):

15. Abell 370 is a cluster of galaxies at a distance of about 4 billion light years in the constellation Cetus. The cluster core consists of several hundred galaxies. It is the most distant cluster. These galaxies are about 5 billion light years away. (Photo by NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz and the HFF Team, STScI):

16. Galaxy NGC 4696 in the constellation Centaurus. Located 145 million light years from Earth. It is the brightest galaxy in the Centauri Cluster. The galaxy is surrounded by many dwarf elliptical galaxies. (Photo by NASA, ESA | Hubble, A. Fabian):

17. Located within the Perseus-Pisces cluster of galaxies, the galaxy UGC 12591 attracts the attention of astronomers with its unusual shape - it is neither lenticular nor spiral, that is, it exhibits features inherent in both classes.

The star cluster UGC 12591 is relatively massive - its mass, as scientists have been able to calculate, is about four times that of our Milky Way.

At the same time, the galaxy of a unique shape also very quickly changes its spatial position, while simultaneously rotating around its axis at an abnormally high speed. Scientists have yet to figure out the reasons for such a high speed of rotation of UGC 12591 around its axis. (ESA Photo | Hubble & NASA):

18. How many stars! This is the center of our Milky Way, 26,000 light-years away. (ESA Photo | A. Calamida and K. Sahu, STScI and the SWEEPS Science Team | NASA):

Mysterious nebulae, millions of light years away, the birth of new stars and the collision of galaxies.

A selection of the best photos from the Hubble Space Telescope in recent times.

2. Giant galaxy NGC 7049, located at a distance of 100 million light years from Earth, in the Indian constellation. (Photo by NASA, ESA and W. Harris - McMaster University, Ontario, Canada):

4. Abell 2744, also known as the Pandora Cluster, is a giant cluster of galaxies, the result of a simultaneous collision of at least four separate small galaxy clusters that took place over 350 million years. The galaxies in the cluster make up less than five percent of its mass, the gas (about 20%) is so hot that it glows only in the X-ray range. Mysterious dark matter makes up about 75% of the cluster's mass. (Photo by NASA, ESA, and J. Lotz, M. Mountain, A. Koekemoer, & the HFF Team):

6. Barred spiral galaxy NGC 1566 (SBbc) in the constellation Dorado. It is located 40 million light years from us. (Photo by ESA | Hubble & NASA, Flickr user Det58):

8. Portrait of a star kindergarten. Hundreds of brilliant blue stars covered in warm, glowing clouds are R136, a compact star cluster that sits at the center of the Tarantula Nebula.

9. Spiral galaxy NGC 7714 in the constellation Pisces. It is located at a distance of 100 million light years from Earth. (Photo ESA, NASA, A. Gal-Yam, Weizmann Institute of Science):

10. The image taken by the Hubble Orbiting Telescope shows the warm planetary Red Spider Nebula, also known as NGC 6537.

The star cluster UGC 12591 is relatively massive - its mass, as scientists have been able to calculate, is about four times that of our Milky Way.

18. How many stars! This is the center of our Milky Way, 26,000 light-years away. (ESA Photo | A. Calamida and K. Sahu, STScI and the SWEEPS Science Team | NASA):

19. Minkowski Nebula 2-9 or simply PN M2-9. The characteristic petal shape of PN M2-9 is most likely due to the movement of these two stars around each other. It is believed that a white dwarf is orbiting in the system, which causes the expanding shell of a larger star to form the shape of wings or petals, instead of simply expanding like a uniform sphere. (Photo by ESA, Hubble & NASA, Acknowledgment: Judy Schmidt):

20. The planetary Ring Nebula is located in the constellation Lyra. It is one of the most famous and recognizable examples of planetary nebulae. The Ring Nebula looks like a slightly elongated ring around a central star. The nebula has a radius of about a third of a light year. If the nebula was continuously expanding, maintaining the current speed of 19 km / s, then its age is estimated from 6,000 to 8,000 years. (Photo by NASA, ESA, and C. Robert O'Dell, Vanderbilt University):

21. Galaxy NGC 5256 in the constellation Ursa Major. (ESA Photo | Hubble, NASA):

22. Open cluster 6791 in the constellation Lyra. Among the dimmest stars in the cluster, there is a group of white dwarfs that are 6 billion years old and another group that is 4 billion years old. The ages of these groups stand out from the typical age of the cluster as a whole, 8 billion years. (Photo by NASA, ESA).

1. The image, taken by the high-resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on the NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, shows a spring in the northern hemisphere with snow of carbon dioxide or dry ice covering the dunes. NASA / JPL / University of Arizona / REUTERS. 2. Composite image of the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant, compiled by combining data from five telescopes covering almost the entire width of the electromagnetic spectrum.
3. A mid-sized solar flare and coronal mass ejection erupting from a large active region of the Sun in July. The outbreak lasted for almost two hours. NASA / GSFC / Solar Dynamics Observatory.
4. The Kalabash Nebula shows the death of a star with a low mass, like the Sun. This image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows a star going through a transformation from a red giant to a planetary one. NASA / ESA.
5. A composite image of 21 separate photographs taken with one fixed camera shows a solar eclipse.
6. A photograph of an Expedition 52 crew member aboard the International Space Station shows one of 16 sunrises they see every day. NASAvia REUTERS.
7. On July 28, the Soyuz-MS-05 spacecraft with the crew of Paolo Nespoli, Sergei Ryazansky and Randy Bresnik goes to the International space station from the launch pad at the Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
8. Spaceship The Swan approaches the International Space Station. NASA / ESA / via REUTERS.
9. Composite image of colliding galaxy clusters Abell 3411 and Abell 3412. NASA / Chandra Observatory.
10. Composite image showing the western hemisphere at night.
11. Photo taken by the Hubble Space Telescope shows the galaxy NGC 2623 located at a distance of about 250 million light years in the constellation of Cancer. NGC 2623's unusual shape is the result of the collision and merger of two separate galaxies. NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
12. The star R Aquarii, located about 710 light years from Earth. It is not one star, but two: a small, dense white dwarf and a cool red giant star.
13. Rings of Saturn.
14. Surface of Mars with flow characteristics typically found at the base of slopes. It is speculated that these deposits are ice-rich, or may have been ice-rich in the past. NASA / JPL-Caltech.
15. Dwarf galaxy NGC 5949 captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. NASA / ESA / Hubble Space Telescope.
16. The young stellar supercluster known as Westerlund 1 is about 4.6 billion years old. NASA / ESA / Hubble Space Telescope.
17. The Soyuz-MS-06 spacecraft, in which the crew, represented by Joe Akaba and Mark Vande Hey from the United States and Alexander Misurkin from Russia, fly to the International Space Station from the launch pad at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
18. Spaceship Cassini over the northern hemisphere of Saturn.
19. Effect of the "Diamond Ring" before a total solar eclipse.

The Hubble Space Telescope was launched on April 24, 1990 and has since continuously documented every space event it can reach. His mind-blowing photographs are reminiscent of exquisite paintings by surrealist artists, but all of these are completely real, physical symbolic phenomena occurring around our planet.

But like the rest of us, the great telescope is getting old. Just a few years before NASA lets Hubble drift towards fiery death in Earth's atmosphere: a fitting end for a true warrior of knowledge. We decided to collect some of the best telescope images that will always remind humanity how big the world around it is.

Galactic rose

This picture was taken by the telescope on the day of its own "majority": Hubble turned exactly 21 years old. The unique object represents two galaxies in the constellation Andromeda passing through each other.

Triple star

Someone may think that in front of him is the old cover of a videotape with budget fiction. However, this is a very real Hubble image of the open Pismis 24 star cluster.

Black hole dance

Most likely (astronomers themselves are not sure here), the telescope managed to capture the rarest moment of merging of black holes. The visible jets are particles stretching for an incredible distance of several thousand light years.

Restless Sagittarius

The Lagoon Nebula attracts astronomers with huge cosmic storms that are constantly raging here. This region is filled with intense winds from hot stars: old ones perish and new ones immediately come in their place.

Supernova

Since the 1800s, astronomers with much less powerful telescopes watched outbreaks occurring in the Eta Carinae system. In early 2015, scientists came to the conclusion that these outbursts are so-called "false supernovae": they appear as normal supernovae, but do not destroy the star.

Divine footprint

A relatively recent image taken by the telescope in March this year. Hubble has captured the star IRAS 12196-6300, located at an incredible distance of 2,300 light-years from Earth.

Pillars of Creation

Three deathly cold pillars of gas clouds envelop star clusters in the Eagle Nebula. This is one of the most famous telescope images, called "The Pillars of Creation".

Heavenly fireworks

Inside the image, you can see many young stars gathered in a hazy haze of cosmic dust. Columns of dense gas become incubators where new cosmic life is born.

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