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If not perfect then this spiral galaxy is at least one of the most photogenic. An island universe of about 100 billion stars, 32 million light-years away toward the constellation Pisces, M74 presents a gorgeous face-on view [read more: https://t.co/rEYTd3siCH]
How 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 [read more: https://t.co/p9TLtH1WJx]
The beautiful Trifid Nebula is a cosmic study in contrasts. Also known as M20, it lies about 5,000 light-years away toward the nebula rich constellation Sagittarius. It almost covers the area of a full moon in planet Earth's sky [read more: https://t.co/HB4hwbyqWU]
Few cosmic vistas excite the imagination like the Orion Nebula. Also known as M42, the nebula's glowing gas surrounds hot young stars at the edge of an immense interstellar molecular cloud only 1,500 light-years away [read more: https://t.co/F9ZgajCSOy]
What's going on near the center of our galaxy? To help find out, a newly detailed panorama has been composed that explores regions just above and below the galactic plane in radio and X-ray light [read more: https://t.co/nBpLLCba3l]
The dark Horsehead Nebula and the glowing Orion Nebula are contrasting cosmic vistas. Adrift 1,500 light-years away in one of the night sky's most recognizable constellations, they appear in opposite corners of the this stunning mosaic [read more: https://t.co/hp6a0GlyvV]
What forms lurk in the mists of the Carina Nebula? The dark ominous figures are actually molecular clouds, knots of molecular gas and dust so thick they have become opaque. The image was captured by John Ebersole in 2016 from Siding Spring in Australia https://t.co/c9OkbaV3xa
Have you ever seen a dragon in the sky? Although real flying dragons don't exist, a huge dragon-shaped aurora developed in the sky over Iceland earlier this month and was captured by Jingyi Zhang & Wang Zheng https://t.co/p96l7kccvO
This supernova shock wave plows through interstellar space at over 500,000 km per hour. Near the middle and moving up in this sharply detailed color composite, thin, bright, braided filaments are actually long ripples in a cosmic sheet of glowing gas https://t.co/xaEJYUozO8
What lights up the Flame Nebula? Fifteen hundred light years away towards the constellation of Orion lies a nebula which, from its glow and dark dust lanes, appears, on the left, like a billowing fire https://t.co/2CU1ZEzeYQ