Celestial Bodies and Nebulae

Artistic renderings of planets, moons, and nebulae, capturing the beauty of space with vivid colors and detailed cosmic phenomena.

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Red Nebula with Planets and Rising Star

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The Earth from space showing all the beauty. Elements of this image are furnished by NASA. Our unique universe

An impression of the Red Planet, Mars, second smallest in the Solar System (after Mercury). This shows a view of the highlands, which are very heavily...

This is an artist's concept of the tiny moon Hippocamp that was discovered by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2013. Only 20 miles across, it may actually be a broken-off fragment from a much larger neighboring moon, Proteus, seen as a crescent in the background. This is the first evidence for a moon being an offshoot from a comet collision with a much larger parent body.

Digitally generated image of a space nebula

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Conceptual Luna eclipse in space with the sun earth and moon in alignment

Artist's illustration of an Extrasolar Planet Orbiting Star HR 8799

Jupiter gas giant slowly orbiting in deep space concept

Space debris floating in the orbit of planet Earth. Old satellites, rockets of support, pieces of metal are a threat because they can collide with the new satellites against the sun. 3D illustration. Space debris floating in the orbit of planet Earth. Old satellites, rockets of support, pieces of metal are a threat because they can collide with the new satellites. 3D illustration

Moon glowing in the dark night sky. Moon glowing in the dark night sky with stars. Cosmic landscape. Moon in starlit night

Digitally created high resolution image of planet Jupiter, the most massive planet in the solar system and the fifth in distance from the Sun

Solar System

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Formation of the Earth, illustration

Phobos, the innermost satellite of Mars, is doomed. It orbits so close to its parent planet that one day, scientists predict, tidal forces on the tiny...

An extraterrestrial planet

The Earth from space showing all the beauty. Elements of this image are furnished by NASA. Our unique universe

Artist's impression of a fluorine planet.

Exoplanet, illustration

One of the Inner Solar System asteroids makes a close pass by Mercury.

DMPP-3 exoplanet system, illustration

Comet and Earth, illustration

A hazy ring encircles this sun far out in space.

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Cassini sees the sun rise over the north pole of Saturn.

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This gas giant orbits so close to its star that its atmosphere is blown away by the solar wind.

A flying saucer flying through a binary star system.

Kepler 11 has been discovered to host a solar system of at least six planets with comparable sizes to the Earth

This artist's concept shows a supermassive black hole at the center of a remote galaxy digesting the remnants of a star. The artist's concept chronicles the star being ripped apart and swallowed by the cosmic beast over time. First, the intact sun-like star (left) ventures too close to the black hole, and its own self-gravity is overwhelmed by the black hole's gravity. The star then stretches apart (middle yellow blob) and eventually breaks into stellar crumbs, some of which swirl into the b

In this artists conception, a possible newfound planet spins through a clearing in a nearby stars dusty, planet-forming disc. This clearing was detected around the star CoKu Tau 4 by NASAs Spitzer Space Telescope. Astronomers believe that an orbiting massive body, like a planet, may have swept away the stars disc material, leaving a central hole. The possible planet is theorized to be at least as massive as Jupiter, and may have a similar appearance to what the giant planets in our own solar system looked like billions of years ago. A graceful ring, much like Saturns, spins high above the planets cloudy atmosphere. The ring is formed from countless small orbiting particles of dust and ice

The Earth from space showing all the beauty. Elements of this image are furnished by NASA. Our unique universe

This binary star system is known to harbor a few select planets; watching curiously from afar at their bright parent suns.

Alignment of the planets planned by astrologers for May 5, 2000.

Europe 3d rendering planet. Europe. Elements of this image furnished by NASA 3d rendering. Europe 3d rendering planet

Artist's impression of a planet with a ring system.

Red dwarf NGTS-1 and its planet, illustration

This still from an artist's animation flies through the Kepler-20 star system, where NASA's Kepler mission discovered the first Earth-size planets around a star beyond our own. The system is jam-packed with five planets.

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Mercury, computer artwork.

Alien planet, artwork

3D rendering of a spacecraft aproaching Venus and the sun

Artist's impression of a barren planet.

Kepler-20e is the first planet smaller than the Earth discovered to orbit a star other than the sun. A year on Kepler-20e only lasts 6 days, as it is much closer to its host star than the Earth is to the sun.

This artist's illustration depicts the exoplanet LHS 3844b, which is 1.3 times the mass of Earth and orbits an M dwarf star. The planet has no apparent atmosphere, and its surface may be covered mostly in dark lava rock, according to observations by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Discovered in 2018 by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Satellite Survey (TESS), planet LHS 3844b is located 48.6 light-years from Earth and makes one full revolution around its parent star in just 11 hours. Because it has such a tight orbit, LHS 3844b is most likely tidally locked, meaning one side of the planet always faces the star while another side always faces away. Spitzer was able to detect light directly emitted by LHS 3844b in part because the planet is extremely hot, so it radiates a relatively high amount of infrared light. The star-facing side is heated to about 1,410 degrees Fahrenheit (770 degrees Celsius). In addition, the planet's parent star is relatively dim as far as stars go. By measuring the t

Artist's conception of clouds in Pluto's atmosphere.

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Every 27 years, a bright star called Epsilon Aurigae fades over period of two years, then brightens back up again. A companion is known to be surrounded by a dusty disk, as illustrated in this artist's concept.

A spaceship traveling between exoplanets.

This artist's concept shows a simulated view from the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa. Europa's potentially rough, icy surface, tinged with reddish areas that scientists hope to learn more about.

An Earth-like planet rises over a rocky and barren alien world.

Planets having atmospheres rich in helium may be common in our galaxy, according to a new theory based on data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. This artist's concept depicts a proposed helium-atmosphere planet called GJ 436b.

. Hubble Witnesses Massive Comet-Like Object Pollute Atmosphere of a White Dwarf

Moon shining over uninhabited violet planet. Moon shining in space full of stars over violet unknown planet. Space landscape. Ultraviolet color on uninhabited planet

The Earth from space showing all the beauty. Elements of this image are furnished by NASA. Our unique universe

Artwork of exoplanet Kepler 10c. This is a very dense, rocky planet in orbit around Kepler 10, a sun-like star located in the constellation of Draco, ...

Exoring J1407B - Moons in Creation

This artist's conception illustrates Kepler-22b, a planet known to comfortably circle in the habitable zone of a sun-like star. It is the first planet that NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed to orbit in a star's habitable zone.

Two planets, illustration.

Image of planets in fantastic space against dark background

The Earth from space showing all the beauty. Elements of this image are furnished by NASA. Our unique universe

Waters reflection and planets.

MarCO-B, one of the experimental Mars Cube One (MarCO) CubeSats, took this image of Mars from about 10,900 miles (17,500 kilometers) away just after NASA's InSight spacecraft landed on Mars on Nov. 26, 2018. MarCO-B flew by Mars with its twin, MarCO-A, to serve as communications relays for InSight as it touched down on the Red Planet around noon PST (3 p.m. EST). This image was taken at 1 p.m. PST (4 p.m. EST). Mars' south pole is facing the viewer in this image. MarCO-B's antenna reflector is on the right and antenna feed (white rectangle with gold square) is on the left. The Sun at upper right overexposed part of the image.

Image of planets in space. Image of planets in fantastic space against dark background

Artist's impression of a terrestrial planet.

Image of planets in fantastic space against dark background

Io is one of the four Galilean moons of Jupiter, the closest to the planet. Its surface is highly volcanic, with very few impact craters. Jupiter is s...

Asteroid

Sun shining onto the moons surface showing crater detail panoramic

A young Earth is shrouded in turbulent, roiling clouds, while under the shadow of its night side can be seen flashes of lightning and the ruddy glow of volcanoes and lava fields illuminating the clouds from beneath

Moon, illustration.

An Earth-like planet rises over a rocky and barren alien world.

Earth and Moon seen from above the Moon´s farside, computer artwork.

Five hundred million years after the sun was born, Jupiters massive gravity disrupts countless asteroids and comets. These hammer down on the inner planets. Did this impact deliver water and organics The key ingredients to life OSIRIRS-REx is a NASA sample return mission to visit Asteroid Bennu. We plan to grab a piece of Bennu, because its a time capsule that can tell us about the origins of our planet and our entire solar system. Watch the full video a href= http //youtu.be/gtUgarROs08 rel= nofollow youtu.be/gtUgarROs08 /a Learn more about NASAs OSIRIS-REx mission and the making of Bennus Journey a href= http //www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/bennus-journey/ rel= nofollow www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/bennus-journey/ /a More information on the OSIRIS-REx mission is available at a href= http //www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/osiris-rex/index.html rel= nofollow www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/osiris-rex/index.html /a a href= http //www.asteroidmission.org rel= nofollow www.asteroidmission.org /a

After investigating the upper atmosphere of the Red Planet for a full Martian year, NASAs MAVEN mission has determined that the escaping water does not always go gently into space. Sophisticated measurements made by a suite of instruments on the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution, or MAVEN, spacecraft revealed the ups and downs of hydrogen escape - and therefore water loss. The escape rate peaked when Mars was at its closest point to the sun and dropped off when the planet was farthest from the sun. The rate of loss varied dramatically overall, with 10 times more hydrogen escaping at the maximum. “MAVEN is giving us unprecedented detail about hydrogen escape from the upper atmosphere of Mars, and this is crucial for helping us figure out the total amount of water lost over billions of years,” said Ali Rahmati, a MAVEN team member at the University of California at Berkeley who analyzed data from two of the spacecrafts instruments. Hydrogen in Mars upper atmosphere comes from wat

Sun bust from behind Moon

Lonely planet on the deep space

Saturn seen from the surface of its moon, Rhea

NASA's Kepler mission confirmed the discovery of its first rocky planet, named Kepler-10b. Measuring 1.4 times the size of Earth, it is the smallest planet ever discovered outside our solar system. Kepler-10b an Exo-planet is a scorched world, orbiting at a distance that's more than 20 times closer to its star than Mercury is to our own Sun. The daytime temperature can reach 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit

Saturn and Enceladus as seen from the moon Tethys. Enceladus is ejecting water from its' south pole, hence the glow around it.

Artist's impression of a chthonian planet.

Protoplanetary disc formation, illustration.

Phobos, the innermost satellite of Mars, is doomed. It orbit so close to its parent planet that one day, scientists predict, tidal forces on the tiny ...

This frame from an artist's animation shows the view from a hypothetical moon in orbit around the first known planet to reside in a tight-knit triple-star system. HD 188553 Ab is a gas giant planet, about 1.14 times the mass of Jupiter.

Artwork of a hypothetical planetary system around a sun_like star. The planetary system includes rocky and gaseous planets in tight orbits.

Planet Mercury, computer artwork.

artist's concept above shows the Pluto system from the surface of one of the smaller moons 2015

Sungrazing comet, illustration

Digital representation of planets in our solar system

Lunar eclipse, illustration

This artist's concept illustrates a solar system that is a much younger version of our own. Dusty disks, like the one shown here circling the star, are thought to be the breeding grounds of planets, including rocky ones like Earth. Astronomers using the Spitzer Space Telescope spotted some of the raw ingredients for DNA and protein in one such disk belonging to a star called IRS 46. The ingredients, gaseous precursors to DNA and protein called acetylene and hydrogen cyanide, were detected in the

Magnetic loops carrying gas and dust above disks of planet-forming material circling stars are shown in this artist's conception, which NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope detects as infrared light.

Artist's impression of an ultra-short period planet.

Digitally manipulated image of earth from space showing moon's shadow over Indian Ocean during eclipse

Scientists have theorized on the origin of water plumes that are possibly erupting from Jupiter's moon Europa. This illustration depicts a scenario modeled in new research that proposes some plumes could come from an eruption of brine, or salt-enriched water, from a pocket of water within the moon's crust. If Europa is venting plumes of liquid, they could possibly be observed by NASA's upcoming Europa Clipper mission, set to launch in the mid-2020's. The research on eruptions of briny water from Europa's crust used images collected by NASA's Galileo spacecraft. The model shows how a combination of freezing and pressurization could lead to a cryovolcanic eruption, or a burst of frigid water, like the one illustrated here. The model could also shed light on cryovolcanic eruptions on other icy bodies in the solar system.

The smooth ice field of Europa.

An artist's impression of the dwarf planet Pluto as it might appear from the surface of its biggest natural satellite, Charon. The New Horizons probe ...

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