Cosmology Collection (page 4)

One of the planets orbiting 70 Virginis is a super-Jupiter, so close to the star that it is heated to a red heat

Ice spires on Jupiters large moon, Callisto
The ice spires of Jupiters moon Callisto were created when softer ice evaporated, leaving behind the harder cores

Artists concept of an impact crater on Jupiters moon Ganymede, with Jupiter
Artists concept of an impact crater on Ganymede, about 10 miles in diameter, dominates a scene otherwise defined by a dozen long ridges

IC 2177, the Seagull Nebula. IC 2177 is a bright H II region located on the border of Monoceros and Canis Major

Center of the Milky Way through Sagittarius and Scorpius
The Milky Way in Sagittarius (bottom) and Scorpius (left and top) including the Galactic Centre area at centre frame. Along the Milky Way are numerous deep sky objects

Southern Milky Way from Vela to Centaurus with Crux & Carina
The southern Milky Way from Vela (at right) to Centaurus (at left), with the False Cross at left, the true Southern Cross at right of centre, and Alpha and Beta Centauri at left

A Chinese celestial sphere of the T ang Dynasty (681-905 A. D. ). Colored engraving
CHINESE CELESTIAL SPHERE. A Chinese celestial sphere of the T ang Dynasty (681-905 A.D.). Colored engraving

Model of the ATLAS particle detector C017 / 6987
Lego model of the ATLAS (a toroidal LHC apparatus) particle detector at CERN (the European particle physics laboratory). ATLAS sits around the large hadron collider (LHC) particle accelerator

Copernican worldview, 1708
Copernican worldview. This is plate 5 from the 1708 edition of the star atlas Harmonica Macrocosmica by the Dutch-German mathematician and cosmographer Andreas Cellarius (1596-1665)

MYTHOLOGY: YGGDRASILL. The evergreen ash tree that overshadows the whole universe in Nordic-Germanic mythoogy. Line engraving from Finn Magnusens Eddalaeren, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1824

16th-century astronomy. Artwork of Atlas holding up the heavens. This artwork was published in Freiburg in 1503 in the encyclopedia Margarita Philosophica by the German author Gregor Reisch

Leo constellation with Mars. Optical image of the zodiacal constellation Leo, the lion, seen with the planet Mars (orange, centre)

Saturns rings. Artwork of the rings of Saturn, as seen from Saturns upper cloud layers. The most visible rings extend outwards from Saturn for around 120, 000 kilometres

Night sky & sunset
Taurus, Pleiades and Auriga. Optical photograph of the constellations of Taurus (the Bull), Pleiades (the Seven Sisters) and Auriga (the Charioteer). Taurus is one of the 12 zodiacal constellations

Canis Major constellation. Optical image of the constellation Canis Major, the great dog. North is at top. At upper right is Sirius (Alpha Canis Majoris), the brightest star in the sky

Historical artwork of the constellation of Taurus
Taurus. Coloured historical artwork of the constellation of Taurus. The constellation is depicted as a bull charging at the shield of Orion, below the Bull to his left

Artwork of Europas surface with Jupiter in sky
Europa. Computer artwork of an ice field on the surface of Jupiters moon Europa. Jupiter is prominent in the sky, its rings can just be seen (from far left to far right)

Stars trails & Delicate Arch
Long exposure showing the Delicate Arch, Arches National Park in Utah, silhouetted against star trails. The brightest track inside the arch represents the Polaris star

Triton and Neptune. Computer artwork of a geyser (black) erupting from Triton, the largest moon of Neptune (blue). Triton is the coldest world in the solar system

Total solar eclipse
The large, shining corona of the Sun, seen during the total solar eclipse of 11 July 1991 from Baja Caifornia, Mexico. The visible corona is in fact the overlapping K-corona and F-corona

Halo planets. Artwork showing the sky of a planet in the outer halo of a galaxy (seen from far left to upper right). The planets moon is seen at centre left

Comparing planetary systems, artwork
Comparing planetary systems. Artwork comparing the sizes of the 55 Cancri (a Sun-like system, left) and the Cha 110913-773444 (upper right) planetary systems

The Cat eye Nebula seen from the Hubble Telescope
The Cats Eye Nebula. The planetary nebula known as the Cats Eye Nebula (NGC 6543) as seen from the Hubble Space Telescope

Quasar interacting with a companion galaxy
Interacting quasar. Hubble space telescope (HST) optical image of a quasar (bright, at centre) interacting with a companion galaxy. The galaxys core is at lower centre

Mars, optical image. This image was taken when Mars was 68 million kilometres from Earth. The Martian summer in the northern hemisphere results in a large south polar ice cap (white, bottom)

Moon surface detail
Photograph of the south east portion of the moon taken through a 30 cm telescope from Orange, California. The four dark patches in the upper part of the photo are lava-filled basins called maria

Ceres, artwork
Ceres. Computer artwork, based on Hubble Space Telescope (HST) images, of the dwarf planet Ceres (1 Ceres) with the Sun in the distance. Ceres has a diameter of 950 kilometres

Marcus Manilius, Roman astronomer. This woodcut was made by Albrecht Durer in 1515. Manilius was a Roman author. He wrote a book called Astronomica around the year AD15

Open star cluster NGC 290. This cluster of young stars lies in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy orbiting our Milky Way

Evolution of the Universe, artwork
Evolution of the Universe. Computer artwork showing the evolution of the Universe from the Big Bang (far left) 12-15 billion years ago to the present day (far right)

Egyptian solar system model
Solar System. An engraving depicting the layout of the Solar System. It is shown as the route taken by a scarab beetle. The path starts at the Earth (centre) and passes out to the heavens (top)

PSCI2A-00097
Ptolemys earth-centered cosmological system, explained by Muller, 1400s. Hand-colored 19th century woodcut reproduction of the 1543 edition

Lead ion collisions. Particle tracks from the first lead ion collisions seen by the ALICE (a large ion collider experiment) detector at CERN (the European particle physics laboratory) near Geneva

Panspermia theory of life
Panspermia, conceptual image. Panspermia is the theory that the seeds of life on Earth, such as water and organic matter, arrived from outer space

Jupiter. Artwork of the gas giant planet Jupiter and two of its moons. Jupiter is the largest planet in the Solar System, with a diameter over 11 times that of Earth

A young star surrounded by a dusty protoplanetary disk
This artists concept shows a young star surrounded by a dusty protoplanetary disk. This disk contains the raw material that can form planets as the star system matures

The Hourglass Nebula
The Lagoon Nebula centered on the bright young cluster NGC 6530. The brightest part of the nebula is known as the Hourglass Nebula

NGC 6523, the Lagoon Nebula
Stars, dust and gas combine to create an interstellar industrial zone of astronomical proportions. NGC 6523, also known as the Lagoon Nebula

The bright star Rigel eclipsed by a moon of a hypothetical planet
Rigel is one of the two brightest stars in the constellation Orion. It is a blue-white giant star. We see it here eclipsed by a moon of a hypothetical planet

NGC 6559 is a rich colorful tapestry of diverse nebulosity in the constellation Sagittarius. The glowing red cloud known as NGC 6559 has formed from the same molecular cloud that gave rise to its

Comet Hyakutake on 13. 3. 96
Comet Hyakutake. Comet Hyakutake (at lower right), showing the comets bright head (coma) and long tail. Comet Hyakutake or 1996 B2 was one of the brightest comets to appear in the sky this century

Optical image of the constellation Scorpius
Scorpius constellation. Optical image of the constellation Scorpius, the Scorpion. To the left are the bright star clouds of the central Milky Way

Planetary nebula NGC 6826
Planetary nebula. Hubble space telescope image of the NGC 6826 planetary nebula around a dying star. About half the stars mass has been ejected to form the nebula

Earth-like planet, artwork
Earth-like planet. Computer artwork of a view across a lake on the surface of an Earth-like planet with another planet (upper centre) and moon (centre right) in the distance

The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe, also known as WMAP, is designed to make fundamental measurements of cosmology, the study of the properties of our universe as a whole

The Wild Duck Cluster in the constellation Scutum
The Wild Duck Cluster, also known as Messier 11, in the constellation Scutum

Comet Lemmon next to the Small Magellanic Cloud

The Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way

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