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A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
Explanation: Admire the beauty but fear the beast. The beauty is the aurora overhead, here taking the form of a great green spiral, seen between picturesque clouds with the bright Moon to the side and stars in the background. The beast is the wave of charged particles that creates the aurora but might, one day, impair civilization.
The most distant object easily visible to the unaided eye is M31, the great Andromeda Galaxy, over two million light-years away. Without a telescope, even this immense spiral galaxy appears as an unremarkable, faint, nebulous cloud in the constellation Andromeda. But a bright white nucleus, dark winding dust lanes, luminous blue spiral arms ...
2024 May 9. The Galaxy, the Jet, and a Famous Black Hole. Image Credit: NASA JPL-Caltech Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. Explanation: Bright elliptical galaxy Messier 87 (M87) is home to the supermassive black hole captured in 2017 by planet Earth's Event Horizon Telescope in the first ever image of a black hole.
Explanation: Relax and watch two black holes merge. Inspired by the first direct detection of gravitational waves in 2015, this simulation plays in slow motion but would take about one third of a second if run in real time. Set on a cosmic stage, the black holes are posed in front of stars, gas, and dust. Their extreme gravity lenses the light ...
Vor 4 Tagen · Astronomy Picture of the Day. Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2024 July 15. The Tadpole Galaxy from Hubble. Image Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive , ESA, NASA; Processing: Harshwardhan Pathak.
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
