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Hubble Captures Stunning Image of Evil Eye Galaxy Located 17 Million Light-Years from Earth

NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a stunning image of the Evil Eye galaxy, also known as NGC 4826, located 17 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Coma Berenices. What stands out most is its bright yellow nucleus, which shines brightly amongst dark dust in brown and orange.

This relatively isolated spiral galaxy was first discovered by Edward Pigott in March 1779, and then independently by Johann Elert Bode in April of the same year, as well as by Charles Messier the next year. Astronomers note that the inner disk contains the prominent dust lanes of the galaxy, while the the stellar population exhibits no measurable counter-rotation.

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First discovered in 1799, astronomers know this galaxy by its peculiar internal motion. The gas in the inner and outer regions move in opposite directions, which may be due to a recent galactic merger,” said NASA.

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ESA’s Euclid Space Telescope Captures First Image, Shows Horsehead Nebula in New Light

The European Space Agency (ESA) successfully launched the Euclid Space Telescope on July 1st, and today, it provides us with its first image: the Horsehead Nebula. Located 1,375 light-years from Earth, Horsehead is known for the dark cloud shaped like a horse’s head, part of the constellation Orion.

Unlike other telescopes, Euclid needed only one hour to capture this dazzling image of the Horsehead, showcasing the mission’s ability to quickly observe an unprecedented area of the sky in extreme detail. This new data of the stellar nursery will help scientists locate many dim and previously unseen Jupiter-mass planets in their celestial infancy, as well as young brown dwarfs and baby stars.

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We are particularly interested in this region, because star formation is taking place in very special conditions. Gaia has revealed many new members, but we already see new candidate stars, brown dwarfs and planetary-mass objects in this Euclid image, so we hope that Euclid will give us a more complete picture,” said Eduardo Martin Guerrero de Escalante, Legacy Scientist for Euclid of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias in Tenerife.

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Hubble Captures More Vivid Image of Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1385 Located 30 Million Light-Years Away

Photo credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Chandar, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST team
NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a more vivid image of barred spiral galaxy NGC 1385 located 30 million light-years away in the constellation Fornax. Featuring several arms mixed together and an overall oval shape, while its center glows brightly.

Bright pink patches and filaments of dark red dust can also be seen spread across the center. This more recent image boasts a pinkish-red and umber shades, whereas the former image was dominated by cool blues. This chromatic variation was made in order to represent the different number and type of filters used to collect the data used to make the respective images.

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It is understandable to be a bit confused as to how the same galaxy, imaged twice by the same telescope, could be represented so differently in two different images. The reason is that — like all powerful telescopes used by professional astronomers for scientific research — Hubble is equipped with a range of filters,” said the ESA.

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NASA’s IXPE Captures First Polarized X-Ray Image of Supernova Remnant SN 1006

NASA’s IXPE has captured the first polarized X-ray image of supernova remnant SN 1006, providing scientists’ with the data needed to better understand the relationship between magnetic fields and the flow of high-energy particles from exploding stars. SN 1006 is located approximately 6,500 light-years from Earth in the Lupus constellation and is all that remains after a massive explosion that occurred either when two white dwarfs merged.

Previously, X-ray observations of this supernova remnant offered the first evidence that they can radically accelerate electrons, and helped identify rapidly expanding nebulae around exploded stars as a birthplace for highly energetic cosmic rays. Since launching in 2021, IXPE has observed three supernova remnants: Cassiopeia A, Tycho, and SN 1006. What surprised scientists the most about SN 1006 was that it is more polarized than the other two supernova remnants, while all three show magnetic fields oriented such that they point outward from the center of the explosion.

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Close-proximity, X-ray-bright supernova remnants such as SN 1006 are ideally suited to IXPE measurements, given IXPE’s combination of X-ray polarization sensitivity with the capability to resolve the emission regions spatially. This integrated capability is essential to localizing cosmic-ray acceleration sites,” said Douglas Swartz, a Universities Space Research Association researcher at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.

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Hubble Captures Dazzling Image of Hazy-Looking Spiral Galaxy NGC 941

Photo credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, C. Kilpatrick
NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a dazzling image of the hazy-looking spiral galaxy NGC 941 located approximately 55 million light-years from Earth. This image uses data collected by Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) to study supernova SN 2005ad, which occurred within the galaxy some years ago.

NGC 941 can be seen here in a face-on orientation from Earth, with the spiral arms of the galaxy shining bright, but somewhat hazily. These arms merge into a swirling disc with a faint halo of dimmer gas around it, while its core glows vibrantly in a lighter color. The two redder visually smaller galaxies and a bright star can also be observed around the galaxy, with more miniature cosmic objects in the background.

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So many supernovae are spotted by skilful amateurs such as Itagaki that there is actually an online system set up for reporting them (the Transient Name Server). This is a big help to professional astronomers, because with supernova events time is truly of the essence,” said the ESA.

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