The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has always amazed us with breathtaking images from space that offer glimpses of phenomena light-years away from Earth. From dazzling nebulae to fascinating galaxies, here are seven of NASA’s best recent images of space.
The twinkling star cluster NGC 2005
The US space agency has shared a sparkling image from space that beautifully captures what can be called the aftermath of a mega-merger of two galaxies. An image shared by the US space agency on social media platform X (formerly Twitter) shows a sparkling view of NGC 2005, a globular cluster believed to have formed from the merger of two galaxies.
Messier 94 (M94), a spiral galaxy
Messier 94 (M94), a spiral galaxy located 16 million light-years away in Canes Venatici. It belongs to the Messier Catalogue, a stargazing resource first compiled by French astronomer Charles Messier in the 1700s.​​​​ fans in a crowded arena
Aurora on Mars
NASA recently shared a video of nighttime rain on Mars. The images showed how it magically covered the Red Planet in a purple hue. As described by NASA: The brighter the purple, the more auroras were present. Taken as the waves of energetic particles from the solar storm were arriving at Mars, the sequence stops at the end when the wave of the most powerful particles arrives and overwhelms the instrument with noise.​​NASA explained that the auroras on Mars differ from those on Earth due to the absence of a strong magnetic field such as A country that typically limits the aurora borealis to polar regions. Mars lost its internal magnetic field in ancient times, leaving it vulnerable to direct impact by energetic particles from space.
Pencil Nebula
NASA has released an amazing video of the Pencil Nebula, which it describes as “being formed by a star that exploded thousands of years ago and is just one part of the huge Vela supernova remnant.” NASA reports that the Pencil Nebula is located about 815 light-years away in the constellation Vela. It reported that the linear narrow shape of the nebula earned it the nickname “Pencil Nebula”.
UGC 1810 spiral galaxy
Galaxy UGC 1810, a larger spiral, has a distinctive rose-like shape. According to NASA, the larger of the spiral galaxies, known as UGC 1810, has a disk that is tidally deformed into a rose shape by the gravitational tidal pull of the companion galaxy below it, known as UGC 1813.
Neptune’s South Pole
The US space agency has shared an image of Neptune’s south pole captured by Voyager 2. Voyager 2 has been in operation since 1977 and is the only spacecraft to ever visit Uranus and Neptune. During its journeys through the outer solar system, Voyager 2 visited all four gas giant planets and discovered and photographed many of the planets’ moons, according to NASA.
The dusty spiral galaxy NGC 4414
The image of the Dusty Spiral Galaxy NGC 4414 was taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope as part of its flagship HST project on the extragalactic distance scale in 1995. The galaxy NGC 4414 is located 60 million light-years from Earth. Speaking of the image shared by NSA’s Hubble Telescope, NGC 4414 is a spiral galaxy notable for its different composition of stars in different regions. Its central regions contain an abundance of yellow and red stars, a characteristic often associated with the older stellar populations commonly found in spiral galaxies.
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