By Neha Yadav
Published Jan 30, 2024

Hindustan Times
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Photo Credits: Instagram/nasa

10 stunning starry photos captured by NASA telescope

The US space agency National Aeronautics Space Administration (NASA) often takes to Instagram to share stunning visuals of the cosmos and celestial bodies from space, captured by its telescope.

Let's take a look at some of the stunning starry photos captured by NASA.

NASA's Webb telescope captured this record-breaking brown dwarf in star cluster IC 348. It is about 1000 light-years away and only 5 million years old.

NASA's Hubble telescope captured this image of a cosmic reef 163,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Dorado. It is a part of a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way full of massive stars.

Captured by the Hubble telescope, here's a pic of two galaxies full of bright blue stars and dark brown dust gravitationally interacting and merging.

This image was captured by Hubble telescope when a star got too close to a black hole causing the tidal waves to rip away the stars' gaseous matter.

NASA's Hubble telescope captured this image of nearly 10,000 galaxies of all shapes, sizes and ages in the universe.

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory captured this image of a fireworks-like nova called GK Persei. The image captured the outburst of mass caused by a thermonuclear explosion on the surface of a white dwarf star.

This image shows a glittering star 10 times massive than the Sun. It is located 6,500 light-years away from Earth. 

NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory also captured his 'Christmas Tree Cluster' of young stars about 2,500 light-years from Earth. The image shows a nebula of green gas surrounding the stars.

Here's an image of remnants of a massive stellar explosion captured by the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX). This explosion took place 1500 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus.

NASA shared this image of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and N11, the second-largest star-forming region within the LMC.