By Neha Yadav
Published Mar 25, 2024

Hindustan Times
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Photo Credits: NASA

10 surreal 'Images of the Day' shared by NASA

The US space agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) shares mesmerising 'Images of the Day' every day. Here is a look at 10 surreal pics shared by NASA.

This captivating image of the aurora borealis was captured in Donnelly Creek, Alaska.

This stunning image of a dwarf galaxy called IC 3476 was captured by NASA's Hubble space telescope. It lies 54 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Coma Berenices.

Here's another marvellous Picture of the Week featuring the collision of two galaxies — NGC 6040 spiral galaxy and LEDA 59642.

This beautiful image, captured by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, shows a supernova known as 30 Doradus B. It shows plumes of dust and gas in pink, purple and blue colours.

This captivating image of the Milky Way's dense core was captured by NASA's James Webb space telescope. It shows an estimated 500,000 stars shining in between ionised hydrogen gas.

Captured by NASA's Hubble space telescope, this astounding image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 4654 in the constellation Virgo. It is around 55 million light-years from Earth.

This high-resolution image of Charon, Pluto's largest moon shows cracks and craters on the surface.

This astounding illustration shows two neutron stars merging and blasting with a jet of high-speed particles and producing a cloud of debris.

This amazing closeup view of Jupiter was captured by NASA's Juno spacecraft. It shows a large, dark shadow on the left side of the planet cast by the Ganymede moon.

This splendid image shows a cloudy, turbulent view of a stellar nursery withing the Large Magellanic Cloud known as N159.