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A galaxy in a chaotic spin! 🫨
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A small portion of the Rosette Nebula features in this #HubbleTopImage 🏵️
The Rosette Nebula is a star-forming region spanning 100 light-years across – this detail of the nebula measures just 4 light-years across! 1/2
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Dark clouds of hydrogen gas are being eroded and shaped by radiation from the cluster of stars in the centre of the nebula. An embedded star seen at the tip of a cloud in the upper right portion of the image is launching jets of plasma that are crashing into the gas around it.
Read more: esahubble.org/news/heic2505/
📷 @NASA , @ESA , STScI 2/2
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The spiral galaxy NGC 4698 is more chaotic than its appearance may suggest…
Not only is it one of a few known spiral galaxies with a bulge that extends out from its disc at a right angle – the stars and gas nearest its centre also rotate perpendicular to the rest of the disc! 1/2
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Find out why here: esahubble.org/images/potm260…
📷 @ESA / @Hubble_Space & @NASA , D. Thilker, the MAUVE-HST Team, N. Bartmann (ESA/Hubble)
🎶 Stellardrone - Ascent 2/2
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Our ESA/Hubble Picture of the Month features a galaxy spinning out of sync 🫨
NGC 4698 may look like any other spiral galaxy, but it has a chaotic secret 🤫 it is one of a few known spiral galaxies with a bulge that extends from its disc at a right angle. This is just visible here, the glow of the central bulge peeking above and below the disc. 1/3
ALT A spiral galaxy viewed at an angle, with a bright central bulge and winding spiral arms. The arms form a ring around the galaxy, without appearing to reach its centre. Prominent red-brown dust lanes weave through the arms, which are also dotted with bright blue and reddish regions of star formation. The galaxy is set against a dark background scattered with stars and faint distant galaxies.
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That is not all that is unusual about NGC 4698. The stars and gas nearest the galaxy’s centre also rotate perpendicular to the rest of the disc!
What could cause a galaxy to be so out of sync? Astronomers suspect the answer lies outside the galaxy… 2/3
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Read more: esahubble.org/images/potm260…
📷 @ESA / @Hubble_Space & @NASA , D. Thilker, the MAUVE-HST Team 3/3
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Our #HubbleTopImage features a detail of the Eagle Nebula
This 9.5 light-years-tall structure of billowing gas and dark, obscuring dust is just one small portion of the Eagle Nebula! Hot young stars are sculpting the nebula’s hydrogen gas into fantastical shapes like these. 1/2
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The stars responsible for carving this particular structure out of the stellar raw material lie just out of view, at the Eagle Nebula’s centre.
Read more: esahubble.org/news/heic2507/
📷 @ESA / @Hubble_Space & @NASA , K. Noll 2/2
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Take a journey through space into a cosmic vista 🚀 featuring the latest Hubble image of the nebula LHA 120-N44!
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🎶 Tonelabs – The Red North (ow.ly/FrX150ZLM3W)
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Our #HubbleTopImage features the famous comet 3I/ATLAS! ☄️
This photo of the interstellar comet, taken by Hubble last year, captures it 365 million kilometres from Earth. Hubble’s observations revealed the teardrop-shaped cocoon of dust coming off its icy nucleus 🧊 and also allowed astronomers to estimate its size more accurately. 1/2
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Because Hubble was tracking the comet moving along a hyperbolic trajectory, the stationary background stars are streaked in the exposure.
Read more: esahubble.org/news/heic2509/
📷 @NASA , @ESA , D. Jewitt (UCLA); Image Processing: J. DePasquale (STScI) 2/2
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Hubble captures a superbubble scene 🫧 in the latest episode of #SpaceSparks
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Blowing bubbles in the Large Magellanic Cloud! 🫧
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Our #HubbleTopImage features our cosmic neighbour 🏘️ the Andromeda galaxy!
This is the largest photomosaic ever assembled from Hubble observations – it took over 10 years and 600 photos from Hubble to create. 1/2
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Our ESA/Hubble Picture of the Month visits a superbubble scene!
The Large Magellanic Cloud is the largest of the small galaxies that orbit the Milky Way. At just 160,000 light-years away, it offers a close look at nebulae like this one, LHA 120-N44, or N44 for short. 1/3
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N44’s striking central void is a ‘superbubble’ 🫧 spanning roughly 210 by 140 light-years. This bubble was blown by the powerful stellar winds and explosive supernovae 💥 of the stars at its centre. 1/3
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When the stars of N44’s central star cluster swept away its surrounding gas, the gas formed a shell around the superbubble. New stars are forming in this shell 🌟 making N44 useful for studying the process of star formation!
Read more: esahubble.org/images/potm260…
📷 @ESA / @Hubble_Space & @NASA , D. Gouliermis 3/3
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