Astrophysical Objects Image Archive

Astrophysical Objects Image List

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This is an image of the Egg Nebula (also known as CRL 2688). The photograph was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. May 12, 1997 (Courtesy of NASA)
Image taken from http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/PR/97/ero.html
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This is the signature of a supermassive black hole in the center of galaxy M84, discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope. May 12, 1997 (Courtesy of NASA)
Image taken from http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/PR/97/ero.html
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This is an infrared view of the beautiful Orion Nebula which contains teh nearest nursery of massive stars. May 12, 1997 (Courtesy of NASA)
Image taken from http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/PR/97/ero.html
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Nebulae

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This image shows a very complex planetary nebula taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. It is nicknamed the "Cat's Eye Nebula" and is about 1,000 years old. (Courtesy of NASA)
image taken from http://www.stsci.edu/ftp/pubinfo/gif/NGC6543a.gif
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This is another image of the Cat's Eye Nebula. image taken from http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/twn/n6543.html
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This is the Trifid Nebula in Sagittarius. (Courtesy of the Anglo-Australian Observatory/Royal Observatory Edinburgh)
image taken from http://www.aao.gov.au/images.html
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This is the Cone Nebula in the NGC 2264 cluster. (Courtesy of the Anglo-Australian Observatory/Royal Observatory Edinburgh)
image taken from http://www.aao.gov.au/images.html
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This is the Helix, a planetary nebula in NGC 7293. (Courtesy of the Anglo-Australian Observatory/Royal Observatory Edinburgh)
image taken from http://www.aao.gov.au/images.html
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This is the emission nebula M 16, in NGC 6611. (Courtesy of the Anglo-Australian Observatory/Royal Observatory Edinburgh)
image taken from http://www.aao.gov.au/images.html
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This is the Horsehead Nebula and NGC 2023. (Courtesy of the Anglo-Australian Observatory/Royal Observatory Edinburgh)
image taken from http://www.aao.gov.au/images.html
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This is the Tarantula Nebula around 30 Doradus.(Courtesy of the Anglo-Australian Observatory/Royal Observatory Edinburgh)
image taken from http://aaoepp.aao.gov.au/images.html
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This is an image of Antares & Rho Ophiuchi
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image taken from http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/twn/ant.html
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This is an image of the Horsehead Nebula which is 1500 light years. image taken from http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/twn/b33.html
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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)
image taken from http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/twn/cygnus.html
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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.
image taken from http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/twn/m45.html
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This is an image of the Crab Nebula, a supernova remnant 6,000 light years away. image taken from http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/twn/n1952.html
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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 a newer version of the infrared cluster associated with NGC2024 nebula. (Image provided courtesy of Michael Meyer (meyer@mpia-hd.mpg.de)) image taken from http://www-astro.phast.umass.edu/gs/n2024.gif
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This is an infrared cluster associated with NGC2024 nebula. (Image provided courtesy of Michael Meyer (meyer@mpia-hd.mpg.de)) image taken from http://www-astro.phast.umass.edu/gs/n2024.gif
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This is the Eskimo Nebula also known as Clownface Nebula which has an unusually bright central star. image taken from http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/twn/n2392.html
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This is the Keyhole Nebula which is 9,000 light years away. image taken from http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/twn/n3324.html
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This is Eta Carinae and the Keyhole Nebula. (Courtesy of the Anglo-Australian Observatory/Royal Observatory Edinburgh)
image taken from http://www.aao.gov.au/images.html
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n3372.jpg
This is another image of Eta Carina. It is the largest diffuse nebula
image taken from http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/twn/n3372.html

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n6514.jpg
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)
image taken from http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/twn/n6514.html
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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.
image taken from http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/twn/n6523.html
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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.
image taken from http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/twn/n6611.html
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n6720.jpg
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.
image taken from http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/twn/n6720.html
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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.
image taken from http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/twn/n7009.html
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This is NGC 7023.
image taken from http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/twn/n7023.html
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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.
image taken from http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/twn/vela.html
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Stars

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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)
image taken from ftp://ftp.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/images/browse/starbrst.gif
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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.)
image taken from http://www.noao.edu/wiyn/images/a273.gif in http://www.noao.edu/wiyn/images
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This is an oxygen rich supernova remnant in the large Magellanic cloud
image taken from http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/hubblepics
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This is an infrared image of the central section of the serpens star forming region
image taken from http://www-astro.phast.umass.edu/fac/serprgb.gif

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SN1987A_Rings.gif Supernova 1987A Rings
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)
image taken from http://www.stsci.edu/ftp/stsci/epa/gif/SN1987A_Rings.gif
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OrionPropDark.gif
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)
image taken from http://www.stsci.edu/ftp/stsci/epa/gif/OrionPropDark.gif
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Startrails around the South Celestial Pole. (Courtesy of the Anglo-Australian Observatory/Royal Observatory Edinburgh)
image taken from http://aaoepp.aao.gov.au/image/aat006.gif
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A young open cluster, NGC 3293. (Courtesy of the Anglo-Australian Observatory/Royal Observatory Edinburgh)
image taken from http://aaoepp.aao.gov.au/image/aat010.gif
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Startrails at Anglo Australian Observatory. (Courtesy of the Anglo-Australian Observatory/Royal Observatory Edinburgh)
image taken from http://aaoepp.aao.gov.au/image/aat005.gif
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A Wolf-Rayet star in NGC 2359. (Courtesy of the Anglo-Australian Observatory/Royal Observatory Edinburgh)
image taken from http://aaoepp.aao.gov.au/image/aat016.gif
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The Jewel Box cluster in Crux, NGC 4755. (Courtesy of the Anglo-Australian Observatory/Royal Observatory Edinburgh)
image taken from http://aaoepp.aao.gov.au/image/aat025.gif
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The stars that excite the Trifid Nebula. (Courtesy of the Anglo-Australian Observatory/Royal Observatory Edinburgh)
image taken from http://aaoepp.aao.gov.au/image/aat030.gif
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V-filter flux for stars
image taken from http://cfa.165.harvard.edu/abstracts/gscagal0.gif

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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)
WE CAN USE ANY OF THESE IMAGES FROM BROWN UNIVERSITY!!
image taken from http://www-astro.physics.brown.edu/astro/CCD/images/m67bf.gif
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Galaxies

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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)
image taken from http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/hubblepics/A2218.gif
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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)
image taken from http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/hubblepics/PKS2349.gif
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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)
image taken from http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/hubblepics/M87Disk.gif
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Quasar's host galaxies (Courtesy of Dr. John Hutchings,Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, NASA)
image taken from http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/hubblepics/QSO1229+204.gif
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lmcha.gif
Large Magellanic Cloud
image taken from http://zebu.uoregon.edu/lmcha.gif
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malin2.gif
Huge Disk Galaxy
image taken from http://zebu.uoregon.edu/malin2.gif
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m31.gif
This is the Andromeda Galaxy, our nearest large neighbor galaxy.
image taken from http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/messier/m/m031.html
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m31groundview.gif
More of Andromeda Galaxy
image taken from http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/messier/m/m031_more.html

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m33.gif
This is the The Triangulum galaxy M33. Uncer good conditions it can be seen with the naked eye.
image taken from http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/messier/m/m033.html
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This is the same thing but an ultraviolet image.
image taken from http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/messier/more/m33_uv.gif
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This is the same thing but a visible image.
image taken from http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/messier/more/m33_vis.gif
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This is the same galaxy of an ultraviolet and visible overlay.
image taken from http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/messier/more/m033_more.html
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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.
image taken from http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/messier/m/m051.html
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Another image of the Whirlpool Galaxy.
image taken from http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/messier/more/m051_more.html
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This is an image of the Spiral Galaxy M74.
image taken from http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/messier/m/m074.html
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Another image of M74 with ultraviolet and visible overlay.
image taken from http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/messier/more/m074_more.html
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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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There are a lot of pictures of galaxies that I did not copy at: http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/messier/m/

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This is an example of the development of galaxy mergers.
image taken from http://crux.astr.ua.edu/gifimages/mergers.html
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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.
image taken from http://crux.astr.ua.edu/gifimages/cena.html
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Another image of Centaurus A. (Courtesy of the Anglo-Australian Observatory/Royal Observatory Edinburgh)
image taken from http://aapeoo.aao.gov.au/image/aat007.gif
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FOR MESSIER OBJECTS GALORE: http://crux.astr.ua.edu/gallery2.html

also, http://zebu.uoregon.edu/messier.html

NGC253.jpg
(Courtesy of NASA)
image taken from http://www.stsci.edu/ftp/pubinfo/jpeg/NGC253.jpg
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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 Barred Sprial Galaxy, NGC 1365. (Courtesy of the Anglo-Australian Observatory/Royal Observatory Edinburgh)
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