This image was taken in January using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope.This new ALMA image shows the outcome of a stellar fight: a complex and stunning gas environment surrounding the binary star system HD101584. The red supergiant star Betelgeuse, in the constellation of Orion, has been undergoing unprecedented dimming. This new ultraviolet image reveals the warm glowing gas clouds that resemble fireworks. Meet UGC 1382: What astronomers thought was a normal elliptical galaxy (left) was actually revealed to be a massive disc galaxy made up of different parts when viewed with ultraviolet and deep optical data (center and right). Image by James Josephides/Swinburne Astronomy Productions, Christina Williams/University of Arizona and Ivo Labbe/Swinburne.This is an artist's illustration of gas and dust disk around the star HD 163296. Mars was about 127 million miles from Earth when the images were taken.PGC 1000714 was initially thought to be a common elliptical galaxy, but a closer analysis revealed the incredibly rare discovery of a Hoag-type galaxy.
It's on the boundary line between being a planet or being a brown dwarf.The Andromeda galaxy cannibalized and shredded the once-large galaxy M32p, leaving behind this compact galaxy remnant known as M32. KIC 8462852, also known as Boyajian's Star or Tabby's Star, is 1,000 light-years from us. The Whirlpool galaxy has been captured in different light wavelengths. A supermassive black hole (SMBH) is the largest type of black hole, on the order of hundreds of thousands to billions of solar masses ( M☉ ), and is theorized to exist in the center of almost all massive galaxies. It's 1.3 times the mass of Earth and orbits a cool M-dwarf star. The brightest areas you can see are where the gas is being heated by young stars. The reason you can see more stars is because infrared is able to cut through the dust and gas clouds to reveal the abundance of both young stars within the nebula, as well as more distant stars in the background. The Gault asteroid is located 214 million miles from the Sun, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.The ghostly shell in this image is a supernova, and the glowing trail leading away from it is a pulsar.Hidden in one of the darkest corners of the Orion constellation, this Cosmic Bat is spreading its hazy wings through interstellar space two thousand light-years away. A white dwarf will emerge from this gas bubble and move across the galaxy. The image above was taken by the Galileo spacecraft on November 25, 1999. This image shows the elliptical galaxy NGC 4889, deeply embedded within the Coma galaxy cluster. "Galaxies collide and merge all the time. The distinctive nebula, which some claim looks more like a skull, has a hole in the middle that creates the illusion of its rose-like shape. Due to the expansion of the universe, the galaxy appears to be moving away from the Milky Way at an accelerate rate.This artist's concept illustration shows what the luminous blue variable star in the Kinman Dwarf galaxy may have looked like before it mysteriously disappeared.This is an artist's illustration of a supermassive black hole and its surrounding disk of gas. It's estimated to have a diameter wider than two Earths.A dead star gives off a greenish glow in this Hubble Space Telescope image of the Crab Nebula, located about 6,500 light years from Earth in the constellation Taurus. Scientists have discovered what may be the biggest black hole yet known in a small faraway galaxy. An image of Apep captured with the VISIR camera on the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope. This is an illustration of the Parker Solar Probe spacecraft approaching the sun.