Space is full of wonders and mysteries that never cease to amaze us. In 2023, astronomers and space enthusiasts were treated to some of the most spectacular... 16.12.2023, Sputnik Africa
In this photo gallery, you can see some of the most amazing space images taken in 2023, such as the giant galaxy cluster 2MASX, which is so massive that it distorts the fabric of space and time around it, creating a gravitational lens that magnifies the light of distant galaxies behind it.The gallery also includes images of the cluster of protostars at the center of the Milky Way, which are the seeds of new stars that will light up the heart of our galaxy in the future.These and other stunning images will take you on a journey through the cosmos and show you the beauty and diversity of space. Enjoy!
Space is full of wonders and mysteries that never cease to amaze us. In 2023, astronomers and space enthusiasts were treated to some of the most spectacular views of the universe, thanks to the advanced technology of telescopes and spacecraft.
In this photo gallery, you can see some of the most amazing space images taken in 2023, such as the giant galaxy cluster 2MASX, which is so massive that it distorts the fabric of space and time around it, creating a gravitational lens that magnifies the light of distant galaxies behind it.
The gallery also includes images of the cluster of protostars at the center of the Milky Way, which are the seeds of new stars that will light up the heart of our galaxy in the future.
These and other stunning images will take you on a journey through the cosmos and show you the beauty and diversity of space. Enjoy!
This Hubble Picture of the Week — taken using NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) — shows Arp 107, a celestial object that comprises a pair of galaxies in the midst of a collision. The larger galaxy (in the left of this image) is an extremely energetic galaxy type known as a Seyfert galaxy, which house active galactic nuclei at their cores.
The NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) instrument on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s reveals a portion of the Milky Way’s dense core in a new light. An estimated 500,000 stars shine in this image of the Sagittarius C (Sgr C) region, along with some as-yet unidentified features. A large region of ionized hydrogen, shown in cyan, contains intriguing needle-like structures that lack any uniform orientation.
This new infrared image of NGC 346 from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) traces emission from cool gas and dust. In this image blue represents silicates and sooty chemical molecules known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs. More diffuse red emission shines from warm dust heated by the brightest and most massive stars in the heart of the region.
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope reveals intricate details of the Herbig Haro object 797 (HH 797). Herbig-Haro objects are luminous regions surrounding newborn stars (known as protostars), and are formed when stellar winds or jets of gas spewing from these newborn stars form shockwaves colliding with nearby gas and dust at high speeds.
This vibrant and dynamic-looking image features the spiral galaxy NGC 1566, which is sometimes informally referred to as the ‘Spanish Dancer Galaxy’. Like the subject of another recent Hubble Picture of the Week, NGC 1566 is a weakly-barred or intermediate spiral galaxy, meaning that it does not have either a clearly present or a clearly absent bar-shaped structure at its centre.
This striking image shows the densely packed globular cluster known as NGC 2210, which is situated in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The LMC lies about 157 000 light-years from Earth, and is a so-called satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, meaning that the two galaxies are gravitationally bound.
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope’s high resolution, near-infrared look at Herbig-Haro 211 reveals exquisite detail of the outflow of a young star, an infantile analogue of our Sun. Herbig-Haro objects are formed when stellar winds or jets of gas spewing from newborn stars form shock waves colliding with nearby gas and dust at high speeds.
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has gazed at the Crab Nebula in the search for answers about the supernova remnant’s origins. Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) and MIRI (Mid-Infrared Instrument) have revealed new details in infrared light.
This luminous tangle of stars and dust is the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1385, that lies about 30 million light-years from Earth. The same galaxy was the subject of another Hubble Picture of the Week, but the two images are notably different.
This panchromatic view of galaxy cluster MACS0416 was created by combining infrared observations from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope with visible-light data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
This spectacular image shows a region called G35.2-0.7N, which is known as a hotbed of high-mass star formation. The kind of stars that form here are so massive that they will end their lives as destructive supernovae.
