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Pictured as a star forming region and cataloged as NGC 2264, the complex jumble of cosmic gas and dust is about 2,700 light-years distant and mixes reddish emission nebulae excited by energetic light from newborn stars with dark interstellar dust clouds https://t.co/OsTxHvLdyx

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 https://t.co/p9TLtH1WJx

A single turn in this dance takes several hundred million years. Two galaxies, NGC 5394 and NGC 5395, slowly whirl about each other in a gravitational interaction that sets off a flourish of sparks in the form of new stars https://t.co/eWqWTLnEqL

Observations show that galaxy UGC 12591 spins at about 480 km/sec, almost twice as fast as our Milky Way, and the fastest rotation rate yet measured. The mass needed to hold together a galaxy spinning this fast is several times the mass of our galaxy https://t.co/RD6P6MMP9d

Bluish Zeta Oph, a star about 20 times more massive than the Sun, lies near the center of the frame, moving toward the left at 24 km/s, producing the arcing interstellar bow wave or bow shock seen in this stunning infrared portrait https://t.co/tyrXULByP7

This intriguing infographic includes relative sizes of the goldilocks zones for yellow G stars like the Sun, along with orange K dwarf stars and red M dwarf stars, both cooler and fainter than the Sun. M stars (top) have small, close-in Goldilocks zones https://t.co/afzmSpsliH

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

What would it look like to fly over a spiral galaxy? To help visualize this, astronomers and animators at the Space Telescope Science Institute computed a virtual flyby of the Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) using data and images from the Hubble Space Telescope https://t.co/XNWDC8buUU

In this Hubble image the bright, spiky stars lie in the foreground toward the heroic northern constellation Perseus and well within our own Milky Way galaxy. In sharp focus beyond is UGC 2885, a giant spiral galaxy about 232 million light-years distant https://t.co/Tiezbt0rtx

Why are these meteor trails nearly parallel? Because they were all shed by the same space rock and so can be traced back to the same direction on the sky: the radiant of the Quadrantid Meteor Shower. Click and check the captions of what you see in the sky https://t.co/wxwRSOKYiv