#Large Magellanic Cloud

[the-wolf-and-moon]

Large Magellanic Cloud

#astronomy #night #sky #space #stars #nasa #science #universe #nebula #galaxy #cosmos #large magellanic cloud

[inefekt]

Milky Way at York, Western Australia

Nikon d810a - 50mm - ISO 6400 - f/2.5 - Foreground: 7 x 30 seconds - Sky: 35 x 30 seconds - iOptron SkyTracker - Hoya Red Intensifier filter

#Milky Way #stars #space #night #sky #Astronomy #astrophotography #landscape astrophotography #galaxy #universe #Crux #Carina #eta carinae #nebula #Magellanic Clouds #large magellanic cloud #small magellanic cloud #lone tree #gum #farm #Wheatbelt #York #Western Australia #outback

[quiltofstars]

A starless Tarantula Nebula // Paul Brandenburg

#astronomy #astrophotography #nebula #emission nebula #star-forming region #tarantula nebula #30 Doradus #NGC 2070 #starless #LMC #large magellanic cloud #dorado

[roversrovers]

JWST's first image of 2024 is here!

This image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope features an H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. This nebula, known as N79, is a region of interstellar atomic hydrogen that is ionised, captured here by Webb’s Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI).

#space #james webb space telescope #jwst #science #astronomy #nebula #large magellanic cloud #astrophysics #my post #nasa #esa

[livingforstars]

7,000 Stars and the Milky Way - February 13th, 1996.

"This panorama view of the sky is really a drawing. It was made in the 1940s under the supervision of astronomer Knut Lundmark at the Lund Observatory in Sweden. To create the picture, draftsmen used a mathematical distortion to map the entire sky onto an oval shaped image, with the plane of our Milky Way galaxy along the center and the north galactic pole at the top. 7,000 individual stars are shown as white dots, size indicating brightness. The "Milky Way" clouds, actually the combined light of dim, unresolved stars in the densely populated galactic plane, are accurately painted on, interrupted by dramatic dark dust lanes. The overall effect is photographic in quality and represents the visible sky. Orion is at the right edge of the picture, just below the galactic plane, and the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are visible as fuzzy patches in the lower right quadrant."

#nasa #space #cosmos #universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrophotography #milky way #stars #orion #large magellanic cloud #small magellanic cloud

[thepastisalreadywritten]

WASHINGTON, Jan 29 (Reuters) — A batch of newly released images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope show in remarkable detail 19 spiral galaxies residing relatively near our Milky Way, offering new clues on star formation as well as galactic structure and evolution.

The images were made public on Monday by a team of scientists involved in a project called Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby GalaxieS (PHANGS) that operates across several major astronomical observatories.

The closest of the 19 galaxies is called NGC5068, about 15 million light years from Earth, and the most distant of them is NGC1365, about 60 million light years from Earth.

A light year is the distance light travels in a year, 5.9 trillion miles (9.5 trillion km).

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) was launched in 2021 and began collecting data in 2022, reshaping the understanding of the early universe while taking wondrous pictures of the cosmos.

The orbiting observatory looks at the universe mainly in the infrared.

The Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990 and still operational, has examined it primarily at optical and ultraviolet wavelengths.

Spiral galaxies, resembling enormous pinwheels, are a common galaxy type. Our Milky Way is one.

The new observations came from Webb's Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI).

They show roughly 100,000 star clusters and millions or perhaps billions of individual stars.

"These data are important as they give us a new view on the earliest phase of star formation," said University of Oxford astronomer Thomas Williams, who led the team's data processing on the images.

"Stars are born deep within dusty clouds that completely block out the light at visible wavelengths - what the Hubble Space Telescope is sensitive to - but these clouds light up at the JWST wavelengths.

We don't know a lot about this phase, not even really how long it lasts, and so these data will be vital for understanding how stars in galaxies start their lives," Williams added.

About half of spiral galaxies have a straight structure, called a bar, coming out from the galactic center to which the spiral arms are attached.

"The commonly held thought is that galaxies form from the inside-out, and so get bigger and bigger over their lifetimes.

The spiral arms act to sweep up the gas that will form into stars, and the bars act to funnel that same gas in towards the central black hole of the galaxy," Williams said.

The images let scientists for the first time resolve the structure of the clouds of dust and gas from which stars and planets form at a high level of detail in galaxies beyond the Large Magellanic Cloud and Small Magellanic Cloud, two galaxies considered galactic satellites of the sprawling Milky Way.

"The images are not only aesthetically stunning, they also tell a story about the cycle of star formation and feedback, which is the energy and momentum released by young stars into the space between stars," said astronomer Janice Lee of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, principal investigator for the new data.

"It actually looks like there was explosive activity and clearing of the dust and gas on both cluster and kiloparsec (roughly 3,000 light years) scales.

The dynamic process of the overall star formation cycle becomes obvious and qualitatively accessible, even for the public, which makes the images compelling on many different levels," Lee added.

Webb's observations build on Hubble's.

"Using Hubble, we would see the starlight from galaxies, but some of the light was blocked by the dust of galaxies," University of Alberta astronomer Erik Rosolowsky said.

"This limitation made it hard to understand parts of how a galaxy operates as a system. With Webb's view in the infrared, we can see through this dust to see stars behind and within the enshrouding dust."

#James Webb Space Telescope #spiral galaxies #Milky Way #Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby GalaxieS (PHANGS) #NGC5068 #NGC1365 #light year #Hubble Space Telescope #Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) #Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) #astronomy #space #universe #cosmos #Large Magellanic Cloud #Small Magellanic Cloud #Space Telescope Science Institute

[amayasnep]

I don't talk about astronomy nearly enough, so let's change that!

One of the most groundbreaking developments in astronomy has been the absolutely mind-blowing work the James Webb Space Telescope has been putting out in a fraction of the time it took the old Hubble Space Telescope to produce similar work. Here are a couple of recent images I find particularly remarkable.

S1 LMC N79 – Dorado

Honestly, this image is just beautiful to look at. It’s even more breathtaking when you consider that this is just one cloud within this star-forming region of the Large Magellanic Cloud, which itself is an irregular galaxy located about 163,000 light-years from Earth. If you live in the Southern Hemisphere and find yourself a suitably dark place, you can gaze up and see this whole other galaxy as a milky blotch in the night sky.

You can read more about this image here.

A gravitationally lensed supernova in MRG-M0138 – Cetus

It's pretty wild seeing the immense force of gravity contained within these galactic clusters warp distant points of light in these visually striking ways. Each arc is a galaxy far beyond the cluster itself that allow us to peer further back in time. Sometimes these warped images mirror themselves on the complete opposite side of the cluster, like ripples on a pond. In the case of this distant supernova, the light emanating from that cataclysmic event is being reflected in such a way that it's reappearing further down the length of the arc, making it seem as though there are two supernovae happening when in fact they are the same.

You can read more about this image here.

#astronomy #james webb space telescope #star cluster #stellar nursery #molecular cloud #supernova #gravitational lensing #galaxies #large magellanic cloud

[ambystoman]

Magellany (Redo) (Nebulite)

Move out of the way, here comes the greatest adventurer in the whole damn galaxy: Magellany!

"Just call me Mag!"

She is brave, strong and... acts before thinking. She gets irritated easily, especially when people get in her way, calling them get-in-the-ways. Magellany is very rude and honest, never holding back on any comments.

She is a Nebulite, a peculiar species of sentient nebulae. Her body composition makes it possible to morph into any form as she wishes. She is not confined to a humanoid body. Her preferred weapon is her trusty Scimistar.

This magical sword is a projection of her soul which is located on her chest, in the shape of a crystal. Her power comes from this object and is also her weak point.

Nebulites have incredible capabilities for Cosmic Magic. While not on the same level as someone like Mr. Sky, they are capable of creating spontaneous life. They do so to help with tasks or do jobs that might be dangerous for them. These rudimentary organisms can last as long as the user needs them to. Their intelligence is very limited though.

Nebulites. Mag and her older sister depicted here

She is not good with this ability though since nobody taught her and so the most she can do is use raw life energy to create primitive beings that she uses as weapons.

In Soul Trail, her special attack is making a little dude that goes in a straight line and damages far away opponents. Once I restart development I plan on adding more of this ability to her move set.

She claims to hear voices from space. Her favorite animals are tarantulas and she really likes long sleeved clothing along with robes.

Random works of her made over the years

Backstory

She lives in a solitary planet with her older sister, Nube. Their parents are long gone and so her sister takes care of her and usually does what is best for her. Mag attends navigation classes at some kind of academy and she hates it there. Often daydreaming of what could be is she were able to sail out into space on a ship of her own with treasures to find, foes to defeat, and people to befriend. All in her own way without anyone telling her what to do.

Beneath all her harshness hides a lonely girl who only wants friends and a life she can have control over. Her short-lived creations are the only creatures who stay by her side.

Her creations only live for minutes. She likes to sit on the roof of her house and talk to them

One day something really big would happen that would change her whole life...

Inspiration

As mentioned in the post, she is a nebula; a space cloud. She is meant to be the Magellanic Cloud (hence her name) and her coloration is taken from NGC 2074. The powers Nebulites have of creating life is a reference to how all planets are born from nebulae, this could eventually lead to the creation of life within these planets.

She was the first character made for this project and has gone through some changes over the years.

NGC 2074. Fun fact, this photo was taken in my birthday! (Photo credit to NASA)

As for her clothes and design, I was really into Kirby at the time and so many of my early designs sort of looked like spacey Kirby-ish inspired creatures.

This was a much needed redo of my first post on Tumblr.

Her very first drawing. Made in 2019. She used to have a sort of visible skull.

Mildly annoyed. Drawn by @blaz-art

Addendum

It just came to me her outfit was totally inspired by Toon Link from The Legend of Zelda along with her proportions and body shape. Idk why I forgot lol.

Pretty busy at the moment still btw, but still making stuff.

#3d modeling #blender #original character #digital art #art #original oc #gamedev #space #soul trail #ambystoman #lowpoly #nebula #large magellanic cloud #small magellanic cloud

[euphorictruths]

Large Magellanic Cloud, John Gleason

#magellanic cloud #large magellanic cloud #space #astrophotography #stars #nebula #galaxies #universe #space stuff #beautiful #beauty #escape #pretty #spiritual #photography #cosmic #cosmos #celestial #art #dark space #the unknown #astral #astro #orange #blue #cool shit #nature

[cannibalcaprine]

Do you recognize this object?

...and then, what of its smaller counterpart?

#astronomy #large magellanic cloud #galaxy

[the-wolf-and-moon]

Large Magellanic Cloud

#astronomy #night #sky #space #stars #nasa #science #universe #galaxy #nebula #Large Magellanic Cloud

[chibinotan]

Tarantula Nebula

#star forming region #Tarantula nebula #30 Doradus #Large Magellanic Cloud #nebula #Dorado

[quiltofstars]

The Large Magellanic Cloud // Sergei Vakhreev

#astronomy #astrophotography #galaxy #spiral galaxy #magellanic galaxy #star-forming galaxy #LMC #large magellanic cloud #dorado #mensa

[xipiti]

Webb Space Telescope fully, perfectly aligned!

Photos of the Large Magellenic Cloud, previously imaged by the now-retired Spitzer Telescope (left) and the Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (right).

😳🤩

#james webb space telescope #Webb MIRI #astronomy #science! #space! #large magellanic cloud #holy moly #alt text

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

“tHe uNiVeRsE WaS MaDe fOr uS“

#NGC 1898 #globular cluster #Large Magellanic Cloud #NASA #Hubble Telescope #Hubble Space telescope #European Space Agency #stars #space #astronomy #astrophotography #religion is a mental illness

[livingforstars]

LMC X-1: A Black Hole Candidate - December 30th, 1995.

"The strongest source of X-rays in the Large Magellanic Cloud originates from an unusually energetic binary star system. This strong source, dubbed LMC X-1, is thought to be a normal and compact star orbiting each other. Gas stripped of the normal star falls onto the compact star, heats up, and emits X-rays. The X-rays shining from the system knock electrons off atoms for light years around, causing some atoms to glow noticeably in X-rays when the electrons re-combine. Motion in the binary system indicates the compact star is probably a black hole, since its high mass - roughly five times that of our Sun - should be enough to cause even a neutron star to implode."

#nasa #space #cosmos #universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrophotography #large magellanic cloud #x rays #binary star