Astrophysical Objects Image List


Nebulae



This image, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows a very complex planetary nebula. It is nicknamed the "Cat's Eye Nebula" and is about 1,000 years old. (Courtesy of NASA)
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This is another image of the Cat's Eye Nebula.
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This is the Trifid Nebula in Sagittarius. The red HII region with its young cluster is surrounded by a blue reflection nebula. (Courtesy of the Anglo-Australian Observatory/Royal Observatory Edinburgh)
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This is the Cone Nebula in the NGC 2264 cluster. (Courtesy of the Anglo-Australian Observatory/Royal Observatory Edinburgh)
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This is the Helix nebula, a planetary nebula in NGC 7293. (Courtesy of the Anglo-Australian Observatory/Royal Observatory Edinburgh)
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This is the Eagle nebula, surrounding the open cluster M 16, in NGC 6611. (Courtesy of the Anglo-Australian Observatory/Royal Observatory Edinburgh)
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This is the Horsehead Nebula and NGC 2023. (Courtesy Anglo-Australian Observatory/Royal Observatory Edinburgh)
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This is the Tarantula Nebula around 30 Doradus. (Courtesy of the Anglo-Australian Observatory/Royal Observatory Edinburgh)
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This is an image of Antares & Rho Ophiuchi.
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This is an image of the Horsehead Nebula which is 1500 light years.
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This image shows a small portion of a nebula called the "Cygnus Loop." This supernova remnant lies 2,500 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus the Swan. (Courtesy of Jeff Hester (Arizona State University) and NASA)
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This is an image of the Pleiades, an open cluster/reflection nebulae 400 light years away. It is easily seen with the naked eye and is known as the Seven Sisters.
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This is an image of the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant 6,000 light years away. Copyright Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc. (AURA), all rights reserved.
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This is an image of the Orion Nebula which is an emission nebula 1,500 light years away. It is known as "The Great Nebula of Orion."
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This is an infrared cluster associated with NGC2024 nebula. (Image provided courtesy of Michael Meyer (meyer@mpia-hd.mpg.de))
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This is a newer version of the infrared cluster associated with NGC2024 nebula. (Image provided courtesy of Michael Meyer (meyer@mpia-hd.mpg.de))
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This is the Eskimo Nebula also known as Clownface Nebula which has an unusually bright central star.
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This is the Keyhole Nebula which is 9,000 light years away.
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This is Eta Carinae and the Keyhole Nebula. (Courtesy of the Anglo-Australian Observatory/Royal Observatory Edinburgh)
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This is another image of Eta Carina. It is the largest diffuse nebula
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This is the Trifid Nebula which is 2,000 light years away. It is called this because of the three dark division lanes. (Courtesy of the Anglo-Australian Observatory/Royal Observatory Edinburgh)
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This is the Lagoon Nebula, 4,500 light years away. It is much larger and brighter than its neighbor the Trifid Nebula and even visible with the naked eye on a dark night.
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This is the Eagle Nebula, which is an emission nebula 7,000 light years away. There are many new stars formed here, but the nebula itself is much dimmer and harder to see than the nearby Omega Nebula.
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This is the Ring Nebula which is a planetary nebula 5,000 light years away. Its central star is very dim. Planetary nebulae are much smaller than diffuse nebulae and therefore more difficult to observe.
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This is the Saturn Nebula, a planetary nebula 3,900 light years away. It gets its name because it resembles the planet Saturn.
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This is NGC 7023.
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This is the Vela Supernova Remnant. This nebula is the remnant of a supernova that exploded about 10,000 years ago.
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Stars



This supernova, or exploding star, occurred in a type of galaxy called the starburst galaxy. They result from two galaxies that collide. (Courtesy of NASA)
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This star image was taken on September 26, 1994 and located in the constellation of Andromeda about 200 million light years. (© WIYN Consortium, Inc.)
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This is an oxygen rich supernova remnant in the large Magellanic cloud
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This is an infrared image of the central section of the serpens star forming region
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This image shows three rings of glowing gas encircling the site of supernova 1987A, a star which exploded in February 1987. (Courtesy of Dr. Christopher Burrows, ESA/STScI and NASA)
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This image was taken on December 29, 1993 by the Hubble Space Telescope. It is a very young star surrounded by material left over from the star's formation. (Courtesy of C.R. O'Dell/Rice University and NASA)
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Startrails around the South Celestial Pole. (Courtesy of the Anglo-Australian Observatory/Royal Observatory Edinburgh)
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A young open cluster, NGC 3293. (Courtesy of the Anglo-Australian Observatory/Royal Observatory Edinburgh)
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Startrails at Anglo Australian Observatory. (Courtesy of the Anglo-Australian Observatory/Royal Observatory Edinburgh)
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A Wolf-Rayet star in NGC 2359. (Courtesy of the Anglo-Australian Observatory/Royal Observatory Edinburgh)
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The Jewel Box cluster in Crux, NGC 4755. (Courtesy of the Anglo-Australian Observatory/Royal Observatory Edinburgh)
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The stars that excite the Trifid Nebula. (Courtesy of the Anglo-Australian Observatory/Royal Observatory Edinburgh)
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V-filter flux for stars
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This is M67 in Cancer taken on April 25, 1995 at the Physics Department, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA. (Courtesy of Brown University)
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Galaxies



This Hubble Space Telescope true-color image is the Cartwheel Galaxy, located 500 million light-years away in the constellation Sculptor. (Courtesy of NASA)
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This is another Hubble Space Telescope image. It is of the rich galaxy cluster Abell 2218. The arc in this image is an illusion caused by the gravitational field of the cluster. (Courtesy of NASA)
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This Hubble Space Telescope image shows evidence for a merger between a quasar and a companion galaxy. (Courtesy of John Bahcall, Institute for Advanced Study, NASA)
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A Hubble Space Telescope image of a spiral-shaped disk of hot gas in the core of active galaxy M87. The disk is rotating so rapidly it contains a massive black hole at its hub. (Courtesy of NASA)
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Quasar's host galaxies (Courtesy of Dr. John Hutchings,Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, NASA)
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Large Magellanic Cloud
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Huge Disk Galaxy
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This is the Andromeda Galaxy, our nearest large neighbor galaxy.
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More of Andromeda Galaxy
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This is the The Triangulum galaxy M33. Under good conditions it can be seen with the naked eye.
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This is the same thing but an ultraviolet image.
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This is the same thing but a visible image.
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This is the same galaxy of an ultraviolet and visible overlay.
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This is the Whirlpool Galaxy M51 and was one of Messier's original discoveries. He discovered it on October 13, 1773, when observing a comet.
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Another image of the Whirlpool Galaxy.
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This is an image of the Spiral Galaxy M74.
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Another image of M74 with ultraviolet and visible overlay.
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This is an image of the spiral galaxy M81 in Ursa Major with ultraviolet and visible overlay.
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This is an example of the development of galaxy mergers.
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This radio galaxy Centaurus A (NGC 5128) provides an example of how dust can affect our view of a galaxy, and how going to redder wavelengths helps penetrate interstellar dust.
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Another image of Centaurus A. (Courtesy of the Anglo-Australian Observatory/Royal Observatory Edinburgh)
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This is an image of NGC 253 (Courtesy of NASA)
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These are images of NGC 1068.
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This is a spiral galaxy, NGC 2997. (Courtesy of the Anglo-Australian Observatory/Royal Observatory Edinburgh)
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This is the Seyfert Galaxy, NGC 1566. (Courtesy of the Anglo-Australian Observatory/Royal Observatory Edinburgh)
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This is the Barred Sprial Galaxy, NGC 1365. (Courtesy of the Anglo-Australian Observatory/Royal Observatory Edinburgh)
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