PIX4621885: Nebula IC 405, star AE Aurigae in the Coach - Nebula IC 405 - IC 405, is a nebula illuminated by the massive star AE Aurigae. This type O star is a “” fleeing star”, a star ejected from the Orion nebula about 2.5 million years ago and continues its race at a speed of 200 km per second / Bridgeman Images
PIX4564370: Centauri Omega globular cluster - The globular cluster Omega Centauri, NGC 5139 - Visible to the naked eye in the southern hemisphere, Centaurus Omega is the most massive globular cluster in the galaxy. About 17,000 light years ago, millions of stars nearly 12 billion years old are concentrated here. NGC 5139 is the largest and most spectacular globular cluster in the entire night sky, and the largest in our galaxy. At 36 arc minutes, Omega Centauri is larger than the full moon in apparent size. It is located about 17,000 light years away from our Sun and at 4th magnitude, is easily visible without a telescope as a “” star”” in the constellation of Centaurus. It contains about 2 million stars, almost twice as many as M13. The stars in globular clusters are generally older, redder and less massive than our Sun / Bridgeman Images
PIX4564537: White dwarf and planet in the globular cluster M4 - Oldest known planet in globular cluster M4 - The globular cluster M4 is located about 7000 years from Earth and seems to be 13 billion years old. The Hubble a space telescope identifies a Jupiter-sized planet orbiting a white dwarf star (arrow on the image). It would be the oldest planet known to date. Hubble Space Telescope image of stars in globular cluster M4. Marked is a white - dwarf star, which is orbited by the pulsar called PSR B1620 - 26; this system had been discovered by radio astronomers in 1988. Only the white dwarf is visible in this image. The system has a third companion, it has a mass 2.5 times larger than planet Jupiter, and is thus recognized as a planet / Bridgeman Images
PIX4564614: Globular cluster M107 in Ophiuchus - Globular cluster M107 in Ophiuchus - The globular cluster M107 (NGC 6171) is approximately 21,000 years - light in the constellation Ophiuchus. Image obtained from the 2.2m MPG/ESO telescope in Chile. The globular cluster Messier 107, also known as NGC 6171, is located about 21 000 light - years away in the constellation of Ophiuchus. Messier 107 is about 13 arcminutes across, which corresponds to about 80 light - years at its distance. As is typical of globular clusters, a population of thousands of old stars in Messier 107 is densely concentrated into a volume that is only about twenty times the distance between our Sun and its nearest stellar neighbour, Alpha Centauri, across. This image was created from exposures taken through blue, green and near - infrared filters, using the Wide Field Imager (WFI) on the MPG/ESO 2.2 - metre telescope at La Silla Observatory, Chile / Bridgeman Images
PIX4591840: Constellations of the Indian, the Crane and Toucan - Constellations of Indus, Grus and Tucana - The southern constellation of the Indian, with to its left the constellations of the Crane (top) and Toucan. Indus (the Indian, widely taken to mean the American Indian) is a constellation devoid of bright stars in a mostly undistinguished part of the southern sky. It was created by Johann Bayer and appeared in his atlas of 1603. The reference to the American Indian comes from the constellation engraving by Bayer, which shows a figure carrying arrows; however, even if it was conspicuous, most of the constellation is invisible from the USA / Bridgeman Images