Favourite Images
Sometimes there’s no need to go into detail.
This page just contains some images that I particularly like.
Jupiter’s moon Io
- Credit: Galileo Project, JPL, NASA
On the left of the image, a sulpherous bluish eruption is visible about 140 kilometers above the surface of a volcanic caldera on Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io.
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Enceladus Looms. Credit: Cassini Imaging Team, ISS, JPL, ESA, NASA
A sunlit crescent of Saturn’s moon Enceladus looms above the night side of Saturn in this dramatic image from the Cassini spacecraft.
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Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
A “Rose” Made of Galaxies to highlight Hubble’s 21st Anniversary
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Credit: D. López and R. Barrena (IAC)
Wider view of Cat’s Eye Nebula (thanks @RainDogJones)
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Credits: Raghvendra Sahai and John Trauger (JPL), the WFPC2 science team, and NASA
Planetary Nebula MyCn18: An Hourglass Pattern Around a Dying Star
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Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team
NGC 6302 (The Bug Nebula)
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Credit: NASA, Andrew Fruchter and the ERO Team [Sylvia Baggett (STScI), Richard Hook (ST-ECF), Zoltan Levay (STScI)
The Eskimo Nebula
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Cats Eye Nebula. Credit: NASA, ESA, HEIC, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) Acknowledgment: R. Corradi (Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes, Spain) and Z. Tsvetanov (NASA).
The Cat’s Eye Nebula
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Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, J. Hester and P. Scowen (Arizona State University)
Gas Pillars in the Eagle Nebula (M16)
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Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
The Cassini spacecraft looks past the cratered south polar area
of Saturn’s moon Rhea to spy the moon Dione and the planet’s
rings in the distance.
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