Em busca de raios X! 🕵️ A Imagem da Semana da ESA/Hubble apresenta a galáxia anã IC 776, que também é classificada como uma espiral fracamente barrada. Esta imagem revela um disco irregular espiralando em torno de seu núcleo e arcos de regiões de formação de estrelas. A imagem é de um programa dedicado à busca de fontes de raios X em galáxias anãs no aglomerado de Virgem, como o IC 776. Embora o Telescópio Espacial Hubble da NASA/ESA não possa ver raios X, ele pode coordenar-se com telescópios de raios X como como Chandra 🩻 da NASA mostrando as fontes em alta resolução usando luz visível. Acredita-se que as galáxias anãs sejam importantes para a nossa compreensão da cosmologia e da evolução das galáxias – e a capacidade de examiná-las através do espectro eletromagnético é fundamental para o seu estudo! 📷 @europeanspaceagency / @hubbleesa & NASA , M. Sun #galaxy #cosmos #universe #astronomy #science #space #NASA #ESA #Hubble #Space #Telescope #photogram #spaceisbeautiful #neverstopexploring #instaspace #mundohubble #universo #Astrofotografia #belohorizontemg #minasgerais #bhenois #bhémeupaís
On the hunt for X-rays! 🕵️ Our ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week features the dwarf galaxy IC 776, which is also classified as a weakly-barred spiral. This view reveals a ragged disc spiralling around its core, and arcs of star-forming regions. The image is from a programme dedicated to searching for X-ray sources in dwarf galaxies in the Virgo cluster, such as IC 776. While the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope cannot see X-rays, it can coordinate with X-ray telescopes such as NASA’s Chandra 🩻 showing the sources in high resolution using visible light. Dwarf galaxies are thought to be important for our understanding of cosmology and the evolution of galaxies – and the ability to examine them across the electromagnetic spectrum is critical to their study! For more information check the link in bio. [Image Description: A spiral galaxy viewed tilted at a diagonal angle. The core and the disc of the galaxy are different colours, but are otherwise difficult to tell apart, with the disc having wispy, ragged edges and many arcs of glowing star-forming patches. A few distant galaxies can be seen in the background around the spiral galaxy, as well as several foreground stars.] 📷 @europeanspaceagency / @hubbleesa & NASA , M. Sun #galaxy #cosmos #universe #astronomy #science #space #NASA #ESA #Hubble #Space #Telescope #photogram #spaceisbeautiful #neverstopexploring #instaspace
Hosted at our La Silla Observatory and captured in this image, the three BlackGEM telescopes are on a cosmic treasure hunt! 👀 They look 🔍 for faint afterglows from the collisions of black holes or neutron stars, which are the factories of the heaviest elements in the universe, such as silver, gold and platinum: the jewels of the Universe. 🔭 With larger optical telescopes, such as our Very Large Telescope, extremely detailed studies of the sources found by BlackGEM can be then made, enabling astronomers to get a glimpse into how the heaviest elements are created. Read more at the link in bio! 📷 Zdeněk Bardon/ESO #eso #universe #astronomy #science #blackhole #stars #vlt #lasilla #photogram #spaceisbeautiful #neverstopexploring #instaspace
Happy Birthday Hubble! 🎉🎂 Das Weltraumteleskop Hubble hat diese Woche seinen 34. Geburtstag gefeiert. Als Geburtstagsgeschenk gab es ein Bild des Hantelnebels. Dabei handelt es sich um das Endstadium eines Sterns ähnlich unserer Sonne. In seiner Mitte befindet sich ein Weißer Zwerg, der Überrest des Sterns. Unsere Sonne wird in vier bis fünf Milliarden Jahren ähnlich enden. 🌞 Mal sehen, welche Form der Nebel dann haben wird... 😉 📷: NASA, ESA, STScI #planetariumwien #vhswien #astronomie #buntesuniversum #hubblespacetelesope #spaceisbeautiful #happybirthday #dumbbellnebula
Our #HubbleTopImage features the sparkling spiral galaxy NGC 6744 ✨ The galaxy lies about 30 million light-years away. It was captured as part of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s LEGUS survey, which observed 50 galaxies in both visible and ultraviolet light to help astronomers better understand star formation and galaxy evolution. To see more of the galaxies imaged in the survey, check the link in bio. 📷 NASA, ESA, and the LEGUS team #galaxy #cosmos #universe #astronomy #science #space #NASA #ESA #Hubble #Space #Telescope #photogram #spaceisbeautiful #neverstopexploring #instaspace
Tonight's full moon. #photography #flamazingphotography #moonphotography #spaceisbeautiful #photooftheday #nature
It’s the 34th anniversary of the launch of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope 🥳 and we’re celebrating with a look at the Little Dumbbell Nebula! 🏋️ 🔴 The nebula is located 3400 light-years away in the constellation Perseus. It is a planetary nebula, with an expanding shell of gas ejected from a dying red giant star, which is collapsing to a white dwarf. 🔴 Two lobes of hot gas escape from the ‘belt’ along the star’s rotation axis, propelled by its hurricane-like outflow of material. The star’s ultraviolet radiation causes the gas to glow: red from nitrogen and blue from oxygen. 🔴 The Little Dumbbell Nebula is just one of 53,000 astronomical objects Hubble has observed since its launch in 1990! 🤯 🔴 In the last year alone, 1056 science papers were published from its observations, including 409 led by authors in ESA Member States. 🔴 In that time, discoveries made using Hubble include finding water in the atmosphere of the smallest exoplanet yet, following spokes on Saturn’s rings, and spotting a bizarre cosmic explosion far from any host galaxy. 🔴 After 34 years, Hubble continues to make discoveries that shape our fundamental understanding of the Universe. Happy anniversary Hubble! 🎉 For more information check the link in bio. 📷 @NASA , @europeanspaceagency , STScI, A. Pagan (STScI) #nebula #cosmos #universe #astronomy #science #space #NASA #ESA #Hubble #Space #Telescope #photogram #spaceisbeautiful #neverstopexploring #instaspace
What are those bright red filaments around galaxy NGC 4383, visible in this image captured by ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT)? 🤔 That's hydrogen gas ejected out to at least 20,000 light-years from the galaxy, at average velocities over 200 km/s and up to 300 km/s 🤯 This gas is dragged away from the galactic core by powerful stellar winds and violent supernovae explosions, ultimately reducing the available material for the formation of new stars within NGC 4383. Read more at the link in bio! 📷 ESO/A. Watts et al. #eso #universe #astronomy #science #stars #galaxy #vlt #photogram #spaceisbeautiful #neverstopexploring #instaspace
Our ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week features the spiral galaxy ESO 422-41, which lies about 34 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Columba 🕊️⭐ Images of this galaxy have a decades-long history. In the 1970s, a telescope at ESO’s La Silla facility in Chile performed a photographic survey of the southern sky 🔭 with its images recorded on glass plates. The resulting collection of photographic plates became the ESO (B) Atlas of the Southern Sky. ESO 422-41 was just one of hundreds of galaxies revealed on those plates. Although technology has moved on, photographic surveys contributed to astronomy for decades. Today, telescopes like the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope are still studying objects like ESO 422-41 revealed by those surveys! For more information check the link in bio. [Image Description: A spiral galaxy, with a brightly shining core and two large arms. The arms are broad, faint overall and quite patchy, and feature several small bright spots where stars are forming. A few foreground stars with small diffraction spikes can be seen in front of the galaxy.] 📷 @europeanspaceagency / @hubbleesa , NASA , C. Kilpatrick #galaxy #cosmos #universe #astronomy #science #space #NASA #ESA #Hubble #Space #Telescope #photogram #spaceisbeautiful #neverstopexploring #instaspace
'Deep in Thought' #agrafort #spaceisbeautiful #memories #happytourist
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has gone asteroid hunting! 🕵️☄️ Wandering asteroids have a habit of ‘photobombing’ Hubble exposures, leaving distinct curved trails in photographs. Astronomers used a trove of archived images taken by Hubble over 19 years to search for asteroids. They were helped by citizen scientists and machine learning algorithms, in a promising new approach that may be effectively applied to other datasets. The hunt found 1701 asteroid trails, with 1031 of these asteroids uncatalogued. 400 of the uncatalogued asteroids are less than around a kilometre in size! This offers new insights into the asteroid belt – finding so many small asteroids favours the idea that they are fragments of large asteroids that have collided and broken apart over billions of years. For more information check the link in bio. [Image description: This is a Hubble Space Telescope image of the barred spiral galaxy UGC 12158. The majestic galaxy has a pinwheel shape made up of bright blue stars wound around a yellow-white hub of central stars. The hub has a slash of stars across it, called a bar. The galaxy is tilted face-on to our view from Earth. A slightly S-shaped white line across the top is the Hubble image of an asteroid streaking across Hubble’s view. It looks dashed because the image is a combination of several exposures of the asteroid flying by like a race car.] 📷 @NASA , @europeanspaceagency , P. G. Martín (Autonomous University of Madrid), J. DePasquale (STScI). Acknowledgment: A. Filippenko (University of California, Berkeley) #cosmos #universe #astronomy #science #space #NASA #ESA #Hubble #Space #Telescope #photogram #spaceisbeautiful #neverstopexploring #instaspace
Our #HubbleTopImage features the glittering beauty NGC 3344 😍 The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured this stunning picture of the galaxy face-on and in a wide range of wavelengths, from the near ultraviolet to the optical and near-infrared. This allowed for a more complete view of the galaxy than the human eye alone could possibly see. For more information check the link in bio. 📷 ESA/Hubble, NASA #galaxy #cosmos #universe #astronomy #science #space #NASA #ESA #Hubble #Space #Telescope #photogram #spaceisbeautiful #neverstopexploring #instaspace
Our ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week features a bright barred spiral galaxy! 🌌 NGC 3783 lies about 130 million light-years from Earth, in the constellation Centaurus. It lends its name to the eponymous NGC 3873 galaxy group, which contains 47 galaxies and appears to be at an early stage of its evolution. The blazing object seen to its right is the star HD 101274. The perspective in this image makes the two appear close companions, but this is an illusion – the star is just 1530 light-years from Earth! ⭐ NGC 3783 is a type-1 Seyfert galaxy, which is a galaxy with a bright central region. Its galactic centre is so bright that it exhibits diffraction spikes, normally only seen on stars such as HD 101274. For more information check the link in bio. 📷 @europeanspaceagency / @hubbleesa & @NASA , M. C. Bentz, D. J. V. Rosario #galaxy #cosmos #universe #astronomy #science #space #NASA #ESA #Hubble #Space #Telescope #photogram #spaceisbeautiful #neverstopexploring #instaspace
Our #HubbleTopImage features a curious galaxy missing its dark matter! 🤔 The galaxy NGC 1052-DF2 was the first found in our cosmic neighbourhood to be missing most – if not all – of its dark matter. Its discovery challenged theories of galaxy formation and provided new insights into the nature of dark matter. For more information check the link in bio. 📷 NASA, ESA, and P. van Dokkum (Yale University) #galaxy #cosmos #universe #astronomy #science #space #NASA #ESA #Hubble #Space #Telescope #photogram #spaceisbeautiful #neverstopexploring #instaspace
—— Here in GA we didn’t get the best of the show but this is what I got. Pretty freakin’ cool. Really wish I had about 100 more mm 😅 —— #eclipsesolar #spaceistheplace #spaceiscool #spaceisbeautiful #sunphotography #sunphoto #sunphotos #spacephotos #spacephoto
OTD five years ago, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration shared the first image ever of a black hole! The black hole was M87*, and since then, the EHT also imaged Sgr A* — the black hole at the heart of our galaxy — and both objects in polarised light. So, to recap: ⚫️ M87* ⚫️ M87* in polarised light ⚫️ Sgr A* ⚫️ Sgr A* in polarised light Here you have the four images, can you guess which matches each? 😉 Take our Story quiz to find out! The EHT is a virtual telescope the size of the Earth 🌍 linking several telescopes around the globe — including @alma.observatory , in which ESO is a partner, and the ESO-hosted APEX 📡. 📷 EHT Collaboration #eso #universe #astronomy #science #blackhole #galaxy #eht #photogram #spaceisbeautiful #neverstopexploring #instaspace
Watching the solar eclipse was definitely one of the coolest experiences.🌒🌕🌘 Yes, I cried. #solareclipse2024 #daytonohio #ohioblogger #solareclipse #spaceistheplace #spaceisbeautiful #redheadsdoitbetter #redheadgirls #midsizefashion #selfiegirl #solareclipsephotography
I’m gonna tell my kids that this was the 2024 Eclipse 🇮🇹 #MeatballMonday #2024Eclipse #SpaceIsBeautiful
Happy T🌑TAL Eclipse Day, y'all! 😎 ✨Blessed Be✨ ☀️🔆☀️ #greatnorthamericaneclipse #eclipsesolar #totaleclipse #pleasedontgoblind #april #spring #witchoutfit #ootd #gothgirl #allblackoutfit #witch #cosmic #celestialevent #spaceisbeautiful
Our ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week features the spiral galaxy IC 4633 🌌 which lies 100 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Apus. From our perspective, the galaxy is tilted mostly towards us, showing off its billions of stars. However, we can’t admire all of IC 4633’s features – at least in visible light – because it’s partially concealed by dark dust. This dark nebula is part of the Chamaeleon star-forming region. Its clouds occupy much of the southern sky, covering its namesake constellation and even encroaching on nearby constellations like Apus. The cloud overlapping IC 4633 is known as the South Celestial Serpent. A narrow trail of gas that snakes over the southern celestial pole, it’s much more subdued-looking than its neighbouring clouds. For a showy astronomical object like IC 4633, the South Celestial Serpent’s coils aren’t a bad place to hide! 🐍 For more information check the link in bio. [Image Description: A spiral galaxy seen nearly face-on. The disc is made up of many tightly wound spiral arms. They contain small strands of reddish dust, near the centre. On the left side, the disc features glowing patches of star formation. The whole right side, and part of the centre, is obscured by a large cloud of dark grey gas which crosses the image.] 📷 @europeanspaceagency / @hubbleesa , @NASA , J. Dalcanton, Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA Acknowledgement: L. Shatz #galaxy #nebula #cosmos #universe #astronomy #science #space #NASA #ESA #Hubble #Space #Telescope #photogram #spaceisbeautiful #neverstopexploring #instaspace
DO YOU KNOW VARUNA? Varuna is an object that orbits beyond the planet Neptunian (transneptunian) and is considered a likely dwarf planet. Obviously, further verification is needed to be able to incense it with this title, but it remains a very interesting object as it may retain the original characteristics of the early phases of the solar system and beyond. It was discovered on 28 November 2000, and soon after its discovery, orbital checks were carried out to trace back old sightings that turned out to have taken place in 1997, 1996, 1990 and as far back as 1953 (never sanctioned as objects in orbit) - Average distance from the Sun: 42.95 AU - Period of revolution: 281.49 years - Inclination: 17.19° - Eccentricity: 0.051 - Albedo: 0.127 - Average diameter: 896 km - Density: 0.992 kg/dm³ - Rotation: 6.34 Varuna is shown to have a very low albedo, lower than Pluto, and this indicates that it is largely filled with water. The low density also shows that its internal composition may be porous, probably resulting from past collisions that also caused the rapid rotation. Varuna, precisely because of the rapid rotation, may have an elongated shape, somewhat like the dwarf planet Haumea. The estimated dimensions derived from the light curves of the various observations are 1050x900x750km, with an average value of 996km. INFO BY WIKIPEDIA AND CAPITANFUTURO BOX PHOTO : HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE #varuna #transneptunianobjects #neptune #kuiperbelt #hubble #hst #nasa #dwarfplanet #pluto #space #universe #astronomy #codexastro #spacelovers #cosmo #spaceinfo #didyouknow #instaspace #spaceisbeautiful #solarsystem #milkyway
MY HEXAGON COASTERS HAVE LAUNCHED AND THEYRE AVAILABLE TO BUY ON MY WEBSITE LINKED IN MY BIO!! GO GO GO! 🤩🤩🤩🤩 I spent all yesterday taking the photos, signing the backs of each coaster, admiring them in the sunlight omg. Next level stuff!!! 🤩 I still have a few square coasters remaining too but I now have 14 designs of Hexagon coasters for you to exploreeee and use!!! 🥰❤️🥰❤️ Im obsessed.... I mean. OBSESSED! 🤩❤️ CANNOT WAIT TO BRING THEM TO MY MARKETS TOO!! LETS GOOOOOO! 🥰🤩❤️ Buy yours now! 🥰❤️ Link in my bio! 🌐❤️ . . . #hexagoncoasters #newlaunch #launchday #productlaunch #colourfulhomes #colourfulcoasters #coasterset #newdesigns #originalart #coastercollection #coasters #coastersofinstagram #coasteraddict #coasterset #coastersmakemehappy #mughome #homeformugs #colourfulart #galaxycoasters #galaxyart #spaceart #spacecoasters #spaceisbeautiful #cosmicart #cosmiccoasters #skullart #skullcoaster #architectureart #architecturecoaster
Our #HubbleTopImage features a colourful and ghostly nebula 👻⭐ IC 63, also known as the ghost of Cassiopeia, is being shaped by radiation from a nearly star, which is slowly eroding away the cloud of dust and gas. The reds and blues in the nebula showcase how it is affected by this powerful radiation. Find out how via the link in bio. 📷 ESA/Hubble, NASA #nebula #stars #cosmos #universe #astronomy #science #space #NASA #ESA #Hubble #Space #Telescope #photogram #spaceisbeautiful #neverstopexploring #instaspace
A March 11th image of the Devil Comet as seen in Bella Vista, North West Arkansas. This comet will be visible throughout the month of April because its perihelion (which is the comet's closest point to the sun), is expected to fall on April 21st. It appears in the constellation of Taurus. Officially known as Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks gets it nickname because it looks like it looks pointy with horns. Why? The comet has eruptions of dust and gas from a buildup of pressure which appear like horns. Similar to Haley's Comet, Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks appears in our skies roughly every 71 years - definitely a once in a lifetime viewing experience! #nwaspace #telescope #spaceeducation #sciencelover #spaceeducation #spaceisbeautiful #astrophotography #nightphotography #nightsky #astrophotography #nightphotography #nwarkansas Image credit: Vern Howard
April 2024 Sky Guide # #nwaspace #telescope #spaceeducation #sciencelover #sciencelover #space #spaceeducation #astronomer #spaceisbeautiful #TotalSolarEclipse #greatamericansolareclipse2024 #solareclipse2024 #nightsky #moon #moonlovers
Comet Chaser #keeplookingup @nikonusa #astrophotography #astrophotographer #astronomy #space #spacephotography #spacephotos #spaceiscool #spaceisbeautiful #nightsky #comet #comets #cometponsbrooks #cometneowise #ponsbrooks #nikonphotography #nikoncreators #theuniverse #solarsystem
Was gibt es diesen Monat am Nachthimmel zu sehen? ⭐️🪐 Jupiter ist der einzige Planet der gut beobachtet werden kann, doch auch er zieht sich Nacht für Nacht weiter zurück. Zu Beginn des Monats geht der Jupiter gegen 23 Uhr und gegen Ende des Monats schon um 21:40 unter. Besonders schön: Am 10.4. gesellt sich am frühen Abendhimmel die schmale Mondsichel zu Jupiter. 🤩 🔭 Alle Infos dazu findet ihr hier https://tinyurl.com/2j59khmu #aktuellersternenhimmel #sternenhimmel #planeten #merkur #venus #mars #jupiter #saturn #sterne #nachthimmel #mond #sonnensystem #weltall #astronomie #spaceisbeautiful #instaspace #planetarium #mannheim #quadratestadt #monnem
Two’s company! 🧑🤝🧑 Our ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week features Arp 72, a very selective galaxy group that includes just two interacting galaxies. NGC 5996 is the large spiral galaxy 🌌 and NGC 5994 is its smaller companion. Their cores are 67,000 light-years apart and the distance at their closest points is even smaller, around 40,000 light-years. For comparison, the distance between the Milky Way and Andromeda is around 2.5 million light-years! It is hardly surprising, then, that NGC 5996 and NGC 5994 are interacting with one another. In fact, this interaction might have caused NGC 5996’s spiral to distort and be drawn in the direction of NGC 5994, as well as causing the formation of the long, faint tail of stars and gas curving away at the top right of this image 💫 For more information check the link in bio. [Image Description: A large spiral galaxy with a smaller neighbouring galaxy. The spiral galaxy is wide and distorted, with colourful dust. Its companion lies close by it at the end of a spiral arm, to the lower left. A long, faint tail of stars reaches up from the right side of the spiral galaxy to the top of the image. Several small, distant galaxies can be seen in the background, as well as one bright star in the foreground.] 📷 @europeanspaceagency / @hubbleesa , NASA , L. Galbany, J. Dalcanton, Dark Energy Survey/DOE/FNAL/DECam/CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA #galaxy #cosmos #universe #astronomy #science #space #NASA #ESA #Hubble #Space #Telescope #photogram #spaceisbeautiful #neverstopexploring #instaspace
⬆️ 🆃🅷🅴 🅲🅰🅻🅸🅵🅾🆁🅽🅸🅰 🅽🅴🅱🆄🅻🅰 ⬆️ NGC catalog object 1499 is a beautiful California-shaped region of hydrogen gas located in the constellation of Perseus. ITS SIZE IS HUGE! The California Nebula spans several degrees across the night sky, even when photographed at 200mm focal-length which is the widest zoom my telephoto lens can go to, the nebula barely fits within the image frame. I imaged this Nebula in February of this year and originally wasn't planning on post-processing it, however, I figured I'd go ahead and see what I could work with data-wise and this was the end result. 𝔽𝕀ℕ𝔸𝕃 𝕀ℕ𝕋𝔼𝔾ℝ𝔸𝕋𝕀𝕆ℕ: 𝟠 ℍ𝕆𝕌ℝ𝕊 Please like and share 🙂 #california #nebulaphotography #spaceisbeautiful #cosmos #universetoday #heavensabove #easter #colorfullycollected #imageprocessing #imageoftheday #astrophoto #deepskyastrophotography #telescope #lensculture #igdaily #imaphotographer #nature #skyandtelescope #highpointscientific #zwoasi #zwo #spacephotography #outdoors #nightsky #starsabove
Composite image of information taken by 3 telescopes: x-rays from Chandra, infrared imaging from James Webb and optical data from Hubble showing Cassiopeia A. The so-called “Green Monster” at the center is a blast wave from the supernova explosion slamming into material #spaceisbeautiful Image credit: NASA #nwaspace #sciencelover #telescope #space #NASA #spaceeducation #astronomer #JWST #Webb #cosmos #Hubble #spaceisbeautiful
Tap and hold the dots 🔧Gear: Celestron 8" Newtonian Skywatcher EQ-6 Pro Zwo Asi 120 MC-S Canon EOS 550 D #YourEsa #Discoverthesky #highpointscientific #Astrophoto #Astronomy #Longexposure #Astrophotography #Moonlapse #Nightsky #Science #IAmSkywatcher #Spiralgalaxy #Longexposure_Shots #nebula #deepsky #astronogeek #Celestron #phd2 #stargazing #spaceisbeautiful #cosmos #earliestlight #ditherordie #backyardastronomy #spaceexploration #space #telescope #telescopeview #your_astro
Our #HubbleTopImage features a fossilised remnant of the early Milky Way. Terzan 5 is like no other known cluster ⭐ it contains stars of vastly different ages, including some which resemble the most ancient stars in the galaxy. Its unusual properties makes it the perfect candidate for helping astronomers reconstruct the distant history of the Milky Way 🌌. For more information check the link in bio. 📷 NASA / ESA/Hubble /F. Ferraro #stars #cosmos #universe #astronomy #science #space #NASA #ESA #Hubble #Space #Telescope #photogram #spaceisbeautiful #neverstopexploring #instaspace
A Imagem da Semana da ESA/Hubble apresenta o aglomerado globular NGC 1651 ✨ que se encontra na Grande Nuvem de Magalhães. Ela preenche esta imagem, apesar de ter apenas 120 anos-luz de diâmetro – existem outras imagens do Hubble preenchidas com galáxias inteiras, que podem ter milhões de anos-luz de diâmetro! Pode-se presumir que o Hubble está “aumentando o zoom” em objetos como este. Mas grandes telescópios como o Hubble não podem aumentar e diminuir o zoom 🛰️ eles têm um ‘campo de visão’ fixo (o tamanho da região do céu que ele pode observar de uma só vez). A razão pela qual o Hubble pode observar objetos de tamanhos tão diferentes é dupla… Primeiro, a distância de um objeto determina o tamanho que ele parece da Terra. Uma galáxia distante pode ocupar o mesmo espaço no céu que um aglomerado globular próximo como NGC 1651. Na verdade, há uma galáxia espiral à espreita nesta imagem, tão distante que se mistura com as estrelas do primeiro plano – você consegue identificá-la? Em segundo lugar, várias imagens abrangendo diferentes partes do céu podem ser reunidas em um mosaico para criar uma única imagem, como foi feito para algumas das imagens mais icônicas do Hubble. [Descrição da imagem: Uma coleção esférica de estrelas que preenche toda a imagem. As estrelas se fundem em um núcleo azulado brilhante no centro e formam uma faixa esparsa ao redor dele até as bordas da imagem. Algumas estrelas ficam na frente do aglomerado, com picos de difração visíveis. O fundo é preto escuro.] 📷 @europeanspaceagency / @hubbleesa , @NASA , L. Girardi, F. Niederhofer Siga, comente e compartilhe @Mundo.Hubble #nasa #ESA #astronomia #astronomy #Astrofísica #carlsagan #universo #reels #viral #space #solar #astronomy #gothic #gothicstyle #universe #cosmos #galaxy #420 #moon #cannabis #astrophotography #milkyway #Hubble #hubbletelescope #stars #cosmos #universe #science #mundohubble #photogram #spaceisbeautiful #neverstopexploring #instaspace
📣 Using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), astronomers have unveiled strong magnetic fields spiralling at the edge of Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole! 🧲 ⚫️ To achieve this feat, the team looked at the black hole for the first time in the so-called polarised light — namely, light that oscillates in a preferred orientation — coming from the glowing gas near Sagittarius A*. This revealed the structure and strength of the magnetic fields that thread the flow of gas and matter the black hole feeds on and ejects. The results are strikingly similar to those the EHT already obtained for the black hole at the centre of the M87 galaxy, suggesting that strong magnetic fields may be common to all black holes. 📡 @alma.observatory , in which ESO is a partner, and the ESO-hosted APEX, were part of the network of telescopes making up the EHT and carrying out the observations. And as the largest and most powerful of the telescopes in the EHT, ALMA played a key role in making this result possible! 💪 Read more at the link in bio! 📷 EHT Collaboration #eso #universe #astronomy #science #nebula #stars #galaxy #blackhole #milkyway #alma #photogram #spaceisbeautiful #neverstopexploring #instaspace
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🆕 The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has spied a cosmic light show! 🤩 🔴 This is the young multi-star system FS Tau 💫 which is made up of FS Tau A (the bright star-like object near the middle) and FS Tau B (the bright object to the right obscured by dust). 🔴 FS Tau B is a protostar, still surrounded by the dust and gas left from its formation which will eventually coalesce into planets. It is likely to become a T Tauri star 🌟 a young star that varies in brightness. 🔴 Protostars are known to eject fast-moving streams of energised material called jets. FS Tau B provides a striking example. It is the source of an unusual, asymmetric, double-sided jet seen here in blue. 🔴 FS Tau A is itself a T Tauri binary system, consisting of two stars orbiting each other. For more information check the link in bio. Image Description: A multi-star system surrounded by gently illumined grey dust, against a dark background sparsely spotted with distant lights. An especially bright star floats approximately in the centre haloed by an orange glow. To its right is another bright object, mostly obscured, and above it is a double-sided jet which emerges in a vivid electric blue from the cloud of grey dust. 📷 @NASA , @europeanspaceagency , K. Stapelfeldt (NASA JPL), G. Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America) #stars #cosmos #universe #astronomy #science #space #NASA #ESA #Hubble #Space #Telescope #photogram #spaceisbeautiful #neverstopexploring #instaspace
Reposted from @hubbleesa Our ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week features the globular cluster NGC 1651 ✨ which is found in the Large Magellanic Cloud. It fills this image, despite being just 120 light-years in diameter – there are other Hubble images filled with entire galaxies, which can be millions of light-years in diameter! It might be assumed Hubble is ‘zooming in’ on objects like this. But large telescopes like Hubble cannot zoom in and out 🛰️ they have a fixed ‘field of view’ (the size of the region of the sky it can observe at once). The reason Hubble can observe objects of such wildly different sizes is two-fold… First, an object’s distance determines how large it appears from Earth. A distant galaxy might take up the same space in the sky as a nearby globular cluster like NGC 1651. In fact, there’s a spiral galaxy lurking in this image, so distant it blends in with the foreground stars – can you spot it? Second, multiple images spanning different parts of the sky can be pieced together in a mosaic to create a single image, as has been done for some of Hubble’s most iconic images. For more information check the link in bio. [Image Description: A spherical collection of stars, which fills the whole view. The stars merge into a bright, bluish core in the centre, and form a sparse band around that out to the edges of the image. A few stars lie in front of the cluster, with visible diffraction spikes. The background is dark black.] 📷 @europeanspaceagency / @hubbleesa , @NASA , L. Girardi, F. Niederhofer #stars #cosmos #universe #astronomy #science #space #NASA #ESA #Hubble #Space #Telescope #photogram #spaceisbeautiful #neverstopexploring #instaspace
Is this image a frame from a science fiction film on an alien planet? 👽 Not at all! The landscape is the Chajnantor plateau, about 5000 metres high in the Chilean Andes, and the antennas are part of @alma.observatory , in which ESO is a partner. 📡 As for the truck, it's one of the two transporters provided by ESO, called “Otto” and “Lore”, that move the antennas from one location to another. But why move the antennas around? 🤔 The reason is that ALMA antennas act together as a single telescope: antennas close to each other have higher sensitivity to detect extended sources, while those further away can see very fine details. Read more at the link in bio! 📷 Sergio Otarola/ESO #eso #universe #astronomy #science #stars #galaxy #alma #photogram #spaceisbeautiful #neverstopexploring #instaspace
Our ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week features the globular cluster NGC 1651 ✨ which is found in the Large Magellanic Cloud. It fills this image, despite being just 120 light-years in diameter – there are other Hubble images filled with entire galaxies, which can be millions of light-years in diameter! It might be assumed Hubble is ‘zooming in’ on objects like this. But large telescopes like Hubble cannot zoom in and out 🛰️ they have a fixed ‘field of view’ (the size of the region of the sky it can observe at once). The reason Hubble can observe objects of such wildly different sizes is two-fold… First, an object’s distance determines how large it appears from Earth. A distant galaxy might take up the same space in the sky as a nearby globular cluster like NGC 1651. In fact, there’s a spiral galaxy lurking in this image, so distant it blends in with the foreground stars – can you spot it? Second, multiple images spanning different parts of the sky can be pieced together in a mosaic to create a single image, as has been done for some of Hubble’s most iconic images. For more information check the link in bio. [Image Description: A spherical collection of stars, which fills the whole view. The stars merge into a bright, bluish core in the centre, and form a sparse band around that out to the edges of the image. A few stars lie in front of the cluster, with visible diffraction spikes. The background is dark black.] 📷 @europeanspaceagency / @hubbleesa , @NASA , L. Girardi, F. Niederhofer #stars #cosmos #universe #astronomy #science #space #NASA #ESA #Hubble #Space #Telescope #photogram #spaceisbeautiful #neverstopexploring #instaspace
Reposted from @hubbleesa Our #HubbleTopImage features the deceptively peaceful-looking galaxy NGC 3256 🌌 This is actually the site of a violent clash between two spiral galaxies, estimated to have occurred 500 million years ago. Today, it is still reeling in the aftermath 💥 this can be seen in the star-studded tails spreading out around it. In NGC 3256’s central region is a disc of molecular dust spinning around two distinct nuclei – relics of the two original galaxies. Eventually, these nuclei will merge, and the two galaxies will probably become united as a large elliptical galaxy. For more information check the link in bio. 📷 ESA/Hubble & NASA #galaxy #cosmos #universe #astronomy #science #space #NASA #ESA #Hubble #Space #Telescope #photogram #spaceisbeautiful #neverstopexploring #instaspace
Hello to the cosmic lonely hearts! 👋 The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has found that brown dwarfs grow lonelier with age. Brown dwarfs are objects between planets and stars in size. Like stars, they collapse out of clouds of gas and dust, but do not have enough mass to sustain fusion and ‘light up’. Like stars, they can be born in twos and orbit each other as a binary pair 💞 However, a Hubble survey has found that the older a brown dwarf is, the less likely it is to have a companion. No binary pairs were found in a sample of brown dwarfs in the solar neighbourhood. This implies that pairs of brown dwarfs are so weakly linked by gravity that the pull of passing stars can cause them to drift apart over hundreds of millions of years! For more information check the link in bio. [Image description: This artist’s representation shows a brown dwarf, an object more massive than a planet but smaller than a star. The dwarf is a cherry-red sphere. It has horizontal stripes of various shades of red that are cloud bands. In the dark background there are myriad stars that are inside our Milky Way galaxy.] Artist's impression: @nasa , @europeanspaceagency , J. Olmsted (STScI) #astronomy #science #space #NASA #ESA #Hubble #Space #Telescope #spaceisbeautiful #neverstopexploring #instaspace
A warm and inviting traditional kitchen featuring gorgeous country-style doors. This stunning space includes several incredible features, such as a built-in table bench for casual dining, a seamlessly integrated wine cooler for easy access to your favourite drinks, and a flawless finish where the moulded ceiling meets the top of the cabinets. Warm herringbone wood floors add a touch of elegance and create the illusion of more space. I have loved working on this challenging design, and am so happy to see the final result. #kitchendesign #countrystylekitchen #spaceisbeautiful #interiordesign #wrenkitchens #elegantinteriors #kitchenideas
Our #HubbleTopImage features the deceptively peaceful-looking galaxy NGC 3256 🌌 This is actually the site of a violent clash between two spiral galaxies, estimated to have occurred 500 million years ago. Today, it is still reeling in the aftermath 💥 this can be seen in the star-studded tails spreading out around it. In NGC 3256’s central region is a disc of molecular dust spinning around two distinct nuclei – relics of the two original galaxies. Eventually, these nuclei will merge, and the two galaxies will probably become united as a large elliptical galaxy. For more information check the link in bio. 📷 ESA/Hubble & NASA #galaxy #cosmos #universe #astronomy #science #space #NASA #ESA #Hubble #Space #Telescope #photogram #spaceisbeautiful #neverstopexploring #instaspace
Our #HubbleTopImage is a close-up of Jupiter. This image was captured in April 2017 when Jupiter was in opposition: at its closest to Earth with the hemisphere facing Earth fully illuminated by the Sun 🌞. This revealed many features in detail: its bands of colour (caused by differences in the opacity of its clouds), its Great Red Spot (a storm large enough to engulf Earth), and the ‘Red Spot Junior’ (a smaller storm seen further south). For more information check the link in bio. 📷 @NASA , @europeanspaceagency , A. Simon (GSFC) #planets #jupiter #cosmos #universe #astronomy #science #space #NASA #ESA #Hubble #Space #Telescope #photogram #spaceisbeautiful #neverstopexploring #instaspace @instapico_bot ربات دانلود از اینستاگرام https://t.me/instapico
Been a while since I’ve shot astrophotography, I’ll have a few more when I can process the data. Here is the Whirlpool Galaxy with its majestic spiral arms being stretched from a collision from galaxy NGC 5195. This is four hours of data captured on 3/14/24 with no moon. The Whirlpool Galaxy is 31 million light years away and located in the Canes Venatici constellation with an apparent magnitude of 8.4. #backyardastrophotography #backyardastronomy #cosmos #universe #deepspacephotography #zwo #asi183pro #skywatcherheq5pro #nightsky #nightskyphotography #spaceisbeautiful #spaceiscool #whirlpoolgalaxy #messier51
Reposted from @esoastronomy The view enjoyed by the now-retired SEST telescope from its location at our La Silla Observatory is enviable, to say the least! 🤩 In particular, the sky is graced by two cloud-like structures that look like galactic fireworks. These are the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, two dwarf galaxies that orbit the Milky Way, trapped by its gravity. They have been known since ancient times to indigenous peoples in the Southern Hemisphere, who often compared them with water ponds or even animals like pigs or tapirs. Discover more at the link in bio. 📷 ESO/ @albertoghizzipanizza (www.albertoghizzipanizza.com) #eso #universe #astronomy #science #stars #galaxy #lasilla #milkyway #photogram #spaceisbeautiful #neverstopexploring #instaspace
The view enjoyed by the now-retired SEST telescope from its location at our La Silla Observatory is enviable, to say the least! 🤩 In particular, the sky is graced by two cloud-like structures that look like galactic fireworks. These are the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, two dwarf galaxies that orbit the Milky Way, trapped by its gravity. They have been known since ancient times to indigenous peoples in the Southern Hemisphere, who often compared them with water ponds or even animals like pigs or tapirs. Discover more at the link in bio. 📷 ESO/ @albertoghizzipanizza (www.albertoghizzipanizza.com) #eso #universe #astronomy #science #stars #galaxy #lasilla #milkyway #photogram #spaceisbeautiful #neverstopexploring #instaspace
The Spider – but definitely not the Spiderweb! Our ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week features the gauzy-looking UGC 5829, an irregular galaxy that lies about 30 million light-years away. It is known as the Spider Galaxy 🕷️ can you see why? Confusingly, there is another galaxy – more distant, but more extensively observed – known as the Spiderweb Galaxy! 🕸️ Swipe left to see it. Thankfully, astronomers do not rely on these names to identify galaxies. Known galaxies are recorded in at least one catalogue, such as the Uppsala General Catalogue of Galaxies, which calls the Spider Galaxy ‘UGC 5829’. These names might be dull, but they are harder to confuse than names like ‘Spider’ and ‘Spiderweb’! For more information check the link in bio. 📷 @europeanspaceagency / @hubbleesa , NASA , R. Tully, M. Messa #stars #galaxy #cosmos #universe #astronomy #science #space #NASA #ESA #Hubble #Space #Telescope #photogram #spaceisbeautiful #neverstopexploring #instaspace
» what are your reading? how are you liking it? hello my sweet friends, I think I’m going to reread Project Hail Mary. I recently watched Spaceman & loved it so much. As it has a similar vibe to PHM, I just can’t stop thinking about it. It’s still hands down one of my all time favorite books. And finding out it’s going to be getting a special edition soon.. it just feels like the best time to reread it. ♡ Well, you’re not alone anymore, buddy,” I say. “Neither of us are.” » hashtags:. #projecthailmary #andyweir #sciencefiction #scifi #scifinovels #spaceman #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #bookphotography #bookphoto #reread #readingismagic #sciencefictionbooks #spaceisbeautiful #readmorebooks #favoritebooks #bestbooks #ilovereading #readthisbook
🆕 The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has tracked Jupiter’s stormy weather! 🌪️ 🔴 Hubble monitors Jupiter and the other outer Solar System planets under the OPAL programme. These planets are shrouded in clouds and hazes stirred up by violent winds, causing ever-changing weather patterns. 🔴 This latest pair of photographs provides an update on the weather on both sides of Jupiter. The many large storms and small white clouds ☁️ seen in the images are evidence for a lot of activity in its atmosphere right now. 🔴 In the first image, the Great Red Spot stands out, and, to its lower right, is a feature sometimes called Red Spot Jr. Having faded to a pale beige in recent years, it is somewhat redder again this year. 🔴 In the second image, a pair of storms (a deep red cyclone and a reddish anticyclone) appear to the right. These are rotating in opposite directions, and are expected to ‘bounce’ past each other eventually. Toward the left edge of the image is the innermost Galilean moon, Io — the most volcanically active body in the Solar System 🔴 Hubble snapshots of the planet, taken on 5–6 January 2024, have been photo-mapped onto a sphere, and the model is then rotated in the video animation. Currently en route to Jupiter, ESA's Juice mission will make detailed observations of the giant gas planet and its three large ocean-bearing moons – Ganymede, Callisto and Europa For more information check the link in bio. 📷 @nasa , @europeanspaceagency , J. DePasquale (STScI), A. Simon (NASA-GSFC) #jupiter #planet #astronomy #science #space #NASA #ESA #Hubble #Space #Telescope #photogram #spaceisbeautiful #neverstopexploring #instaspace
This week’s #HubbleTopImage stars the bright pink nebula NGC 248 💖. Located in the Small Magellanic Cloud just under 200,000 light-years away, NGC 248 is actually made up of two nebulae, conjoined such that they appear as one. Intense radiation from the central stars causes hydrogen in the nebulae to glow pink. For more information check the link in bio. 📷 NASA, ESA, STScI, K. Sandstrom (University of California, San Diego), and the SMIDGE team. #HubbleTopImage #nebula #stars #cosmos #universe #astronomy #science #space #NASA #ESA #Hubble #Space #Telescope #photogram #spaceisbeautiful #neverstopexploring #instaspace
The Sun. #space #celestrontelescope #amatuerastronomy #sunlover #sunphotography #sunspotsolarobservatory #sun #telescope #blackphotographers #moonphotography #blackphotography #celestron8se #celestronrocks #celestronuniverse #celestronfans #celestronuk #lasvegassun #lasvegasastronomicalsociety #nikonphotography #blackastrophotographer #nikond5500 #moonphoto #universe #beautifulphotography #clearskies #betterlatethannever #keeplookingup #spaceisbeautiful #keeponkeepingon
Our ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week features an unlikely spiral galaxy ✨ LEDA 42160 lies about 52 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Virgo. It is one of many forcing a path through the dense gas in the Virgo cluster 🌫️ which is having dramatic effects on its star formation. It is categorised as a Magellanic spiral galaxy (Sm), meaning it is a dwarf galaxy with a single spiral arm. Magellanic spiral galaxies are a good example of how galaxy categorisation is more nuanced than ‘spiral’, ‘elliptical’, or ‘irregular’ – Magellanic spiral galaxies can be further categorised as barred (SBm), unbarred (SAm), or weakly barred (SABm). For more information check the link in bio. [Image Description: A distorted dwarf galaxy, obscured by dust and by bright outbursts caused by star formation, floats roughly in the centre. A few distant galaxies are visible in the background around it, many as little spirals, and also including a prominent elliptical galaxy. A bright star hangs above the galaxy in the foreground, marked by cross-shaped diffraction spikes.] 📷 @europeanspaceagency / @hubbleesa , NASA , M. Sun #galaxy #cosmos #universe #astronomy #science #space #NASA #ESA #Hubble #Space #Telescope #photogram #spaceisbeautiful #neverstopexploring #instaspace
It’s not much but my first try at capturing the Sun this morning. #space #celestrontelescope #amatuerastronomy #sunlover #sunphotography #sunspotsolarobservatory #sun #telescope #blackphotographers #moonphotography #blackphotography #celestron8se #celestronrocks #celestronuniverse #celestronfans #celestronuk #lasvegassun #lasvegasastronomicalsociety #nikonphotography #blackastrophotographer #nikond5500 #moonphoto #universe #beautifulphotography #clearskies #betterlatethannever #keeplookingup #spaceisbeautiful #keeponkeepingon
Our #HubbleTopImage sees two galaxies colliding in a crash of cosmic proportions! 350 million light-years away, in the constellation of Cetus 🐋, a pair of barred spiral galaxies have started to merge. Though their nuclei are still separate, their shapes are distorted, with the galaxy in the upper half of the image having long, trailing tidal tails – extended ribbons of gas, dust and stars 💫. For more information check the link in bio. 📷 ESA/Hubble & NASA #galaxy #cosmos #universe #astronomy #science #space #NASA #ESA #Hubble #Space #Telescope #photogram #spaceisbeautiful #neverstopexploring #instaspace
A galaxy in disguise? 🥸 Our ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week features NGC 4423, which lies 55 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. Here, it appears as an irregular, tubular galaxy – but it is in fact a spiral galaxy! Can you make out its denser central bulge and sparser surrounding disc? 🌀 If NGC 4423 could be viewed face-on, it would be recognisable as a spiral galaxy. But, when observing the skies, we are constrained by the relative alignments of Earth and the objects we observe – we can’t reposition Earth to get a better view! Perhaps one day, NGC 4423 might have moved far enough relative to Earth to reveal its true shape – but the reality is that distances in space are too big, and human lifetimes too short, to see NGC 4423 any other way. For more information check the link in bio. [Image Description: A broad spiral galaxy is seen edge-on, so that its spiral arms can’t be seen. Visible dust and stars trace the disc of the galaxy, surrounded by a glowing halo above and below. The colour of the galaxy changes smoothly between the outer disc at the ends and the bulge in the centre. A few bright stars surround the galaxy on a dark background.] 📷 @europeanspaceagency / @hubbleesa , NASA , M. Sun #galaxy #cosmos #universe #astronomy #science #space #NASA #ESA #Hubble #Space #Telescope #photogram #spaceisbeautiful #neverstopexploring #instaspace
Was gibt es diesen Monat am Nachthimmel zu sehen? ⭐️🪐 Diesen Monat ist nur Jupiter leicht am Nachthimmel zu entdecken. Alle anderen Planeten sind aktuell nur schwer oder gar nicht sichtbar. Besonders schön: Am 13.3. gesellt sich am frühen Abendhimmel die schmale Mondsichel zu Jupiter. 🤩 🔭 Alle Infos dazu findet ihr hier https://tinyurl.com/2j59khmu #aktuellersternenhimmel #sternenhimmel #planeten #merkur #venus #mars #jupiter #saturn #sterne #nachthimmel #mond #sonnensystem #weltall #astronomie #spaceisbeautiful #instaspace #planetarium #mannheim #quadratestadt #monnem
TRE OCEANI PER POTENZIALI TERRE Questa incredibile immagine ottenuta con il telescopio #ALMA mostra un disco di polvere (in rosso) e gas, attorno alla giovane stella HL Tauri, che si trova a circa 450 anni luce da noi. Quell’alone azzurro al centro dell’immagine è VAPORE ACQUEO, per la prima volta osservato in una regione attorno ad una stella diversa dal nostro Sole, dove nuove terre si stanno formando! Con questa osservazione senza precedenti gli scienziati vogliono cercare di rispondere ad una delle domande più profonde dell’uomo: com’è arrivata l’acqua, e quindi la vita, sulla Terra? @luna_rampinelli Credits: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/S. Facchini et al. 2024 _________________________________________ #PhysicalPub #ESO #ALMA #HLTauri #science #divulgers #astrophysics #divulgazione #stem #technology #spaceisbeautiful #stars #universe #discover #acqua #vita #water #life
Our #HubbleTopImage is a close-up of Jupiter. This image was captured in April 2017 when Jupiter was in opposition: at its closest to Earth with the hemisphere facing Earth fully illuminated by the Sun 🌞. This revealed many features in detail: its bands of colour (caused by differences in the opacity of its clouds), its Great Red Spot (a storm large enough to engulf Earth), and the ‘Red Spot Junior’ (a smaller storm seen further south). For more information check the link in bio. 📷 @NASA , @europeanspaceagency , A. Simon (GSFC) #planets #jupiter #cosmos #universe #astronomy #science #space #NASA #ESA #Hubble #Space #Telescope #photogram #spaceisbeautiful #neverstopexploring #instaspace
📣 New discovery! @alma.observatory , in which ESO is a partner, has found oceans of water vapour in the disc around the young Sun-like star HL Tauri 🌟, revealing a new link between water 💧 and planet formation. At least three times as much water as in all of Earth’s oceans 🌍 were found, and the discovery allowed the first mapping ever of water distribution in a stable, cool disc — the type that offers the best conditions for planets to form. A feat that currently only ALMA can accomplish. 🥇 In particular, a significant amount of this water is located within a known gap in the disc. Such gaps are carved out by orbiting, young planet-like bodies as they gather up material and grow. So, this finding suggests that water vapour could affect the chemical composition of planets forming in those regions. But how exactly? 🤔 The fact is that the dust grains that make up a disc are the seeds of planet formation, colliding and clumping into ever larger bodies. Astronomers believe that where it is cold enough for water to freeze onto dust particles, things stick together more efficiently — an ideal spot for planet formation, and a process that likely shaped the formation of our own Solar System some 4.5 billion years ago. Discover more at the link in bio. 📷 ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/S. Facchini et al. #eso #universe #astronomy #science #stars #planets #alma #solarsystem #photogram #spaceisbeautiful #neverstopexploring #instaspace