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Close-up images of NGC 3242 show the cast off shroud of a dying, sun-like star fancifully known as The Ghost of Jupiter nebula. But this deep and wide telescopic view also finds the seldom seen outer halo of the beautiful planetary nebula https://t.co/hhHRJZUmWw
NASA's SOFIA -- an observatory flying in a modified 747 -- imaged the central region of the Milky Way with an instrument known as HAWC+ to visualize the magnetic field of our galaxy and this is the result https://t.co/p9TLtH1WJx
Dust lanes seem to swirl around the core of Messier 96 in this colorful, detailed portrait of the center of a beautiful island universe. Counting the faint arms extending beyond the brighter central region, it spans 100,000 light-years https://t.co/00YnyNsNk3
What's happening in and around the Cave Nebula? To help find out, NASA's orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope looked into this optically-dark star-forming region in four colors of infrared light https://t.co/wtqCm0Lbnq
Star formation can be colorful. This chromatic cosmic portrait features glowing gas and dark dust near some recently formed stars of NGC 3572, a little-studied star cluster near the Carina Nebula https://t.co/5tlYelwZIK
Bioluminescence, volcanic stacks, fog, car headlights on the Oregon Coast Highway (US 101), a fishing boat and the Milky Way https://t.co/ILlCdvjXmt
What's happening in the center of the Carina Nebula? Stars are forming, dying, & leaving an impressive tapestry of dark dusty filaments. Cataloged as NGC3372,, it spans over 300 light years & lies about 8,500 light-years away in the constellation of Carina https://t.co/iwYu2oegNC
Gazing into this composite image of the Cat's Eye nebula from a Hubble view with X-ray light captured by Chandra, humanity sees the fate of our sun, destined to enter its own planetary nebula phase of evolution ... in about 5 billion years https://t.co/hCxcdhVAQz
Astrophotographer Aman Chokshi was quite lucky to capture both a meteor and a galaxy in a single exposure -- which was subsequently added to two other images of M33 to bring up the spiral galaxy's colors https://t.co/Ry7yu74xaY
Flanked by satellite galaxies of the Milky Way a volcanic peak rises from this rugged horizon. The southern night skyscape looks toward the south over Laguna Lejia and the altiplano of the Antofagasta Region of northern Chile https://t.co/kJTU3yCX07