‘Christmas Star’: Jupiter and Saturn will look like a double planet

On the night of December 21, Jupiter and Saturn will be so aligned in the sky that they will look like a double planet in what is known as a conjunction.

In this image provided by NASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO team, a stellar jet is shown in the Carina Nebula in space.

In this heavily cropped brochure image provided by NASA, NASA’s space shuttle Atlantis is seen in silhouette during the solar transit at 10:27 a.m. EDT, May 18, 2009, from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.

This image offers the most detailed view yet of the entire Crab Nebula ever created. The image is the largest image ever taken with Hubble’s WFPC2 workhorse camera.

This image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a group of galaxies called the Seyfert Sextet on June 26, 2000. Although the name of this group suggests that there are six, there are actually only four galaxies in the group that are slowly merging into one. .

This image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows a pair of half-light-year-long interstellar “twisted” interstellars, eerie funnels, and twisted string structures, in the heart of the Laguna Nebula, which lies 5,000 light-years away in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius. The hot central star, O Herschel 36 (bottom right), is the main source of ionizing radiation for the brightest region of the nebula, called the Hourglass.

An image from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope shows a halo of hot gas surrounding the Milky Way-like spiral galaxy NGC 4631 on June 19, 2001. The orange color in the middle Image represents ultraviolet radiation. as observed by ITU, tracking massive stars in the galaxy.

The Hubble Space Telescope took this image of a dying star named “NGC 6369” on November 7, 2002. The star, also known as the “Little Ghost Nebula,” is 2,000 to 5,000 light-years from Earth and is similar en masse to our Sun. The ghostly halo that surrounds the star is caused by the shedding of the outer layers of the star during the final stages of its life cycle.

The Cone Nebula, a harmless pillar of gas and dust, is seen in this image revealed by astronomers on April 30, 2002.

This image, which resembles a fleeing burning creature, exposes the hidden interior of a dark, dusty cloud in the emission nebula IC 1396. Young stars previously obscured by dust can be seen here for the first time.

An image of a Cas A supernova reveals the remnants of a section of the upper edge of the youngest known supernova identified in our galaxy, the Milky Way. Dozens of small clusters near the top of the image are actually tiny fragments of the star, and each cluster is roughly 10 times the diameter of our solar system. The variable colors of the supernova are caused by bright atoms.

This image released on October 7, 2004 by NASA shows Kepler’s supernova remnant produced by combining data from the Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope, and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. Kepler’s supernova was first seen 400 years ago by sky watchers, including the famous astronomer Johannes Kepler. The combined image reveals a bubble-shaped layer of gas and dust that is 14 light-years wide and expanding at 4 million miles per hour (2,000 kilometers per second).

In this composite image released by the Hubble Space Telescope, the Whirlpool Galaxy and the Eagle Nebula are seen on April 25, 2005.

In this brochure provided by NASA, a visible-light image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a red ring of dust and debris surrounding the star Fomalhaut and the newly discovered planet Fomalhaut b, orbiting their parent star.

This undated image taken by the Hubble telescope shows Pluto and its moons Charon, Nix, and Hydra. The International Astronomical Union announced on August 24, 2006 that it no longer considered Pluto a planet, a status it had since its discovery in 1930.

A curtain of bright gas wraps around Jupiter’s north pole like a loop on December 19, 2000, in a photo from the Hubble telescope. The curtain of light, called the aurora, occurs when high-energy electrons race through the planet’s magnetic field and reach the upper atmosphere. Electrons excite atmospheric gases and make them glow. The aurora resembles the same phenomenon that crowns the polar regions of the Earth.

The Radiant Star, September 13, 1996.

Hubble takes a look at the “Eskimo” Nebula in this March 6, 2000 image. This stellar relic, first spied on by William Herschel in 1787, was nicknamed the “Eskimo” Nebula because, when viewed through telescopes terrestrial, it resembles a face surrounded by a fur parka.

Just weeks after NASA astronauts repaired the Hubble Space Telescope in December 1999, the Hubble Heritage Project took this image of NGC 1999, a nebula in the constellation Orion. Astronomers at Heritage, in collaboration with scientists from Texas and Ireland, used Hubble’s Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) to obtain the color image.

These images from the Hubble Space Telescope, captured between 1996 and 2000, show that Saturn’s rings open from the rim to almost fully open as it moves from fall to winter in its northern hemisphere, as part of the course of its 29-year journey. years around the sun.

A comparative image of the planet Mars reveals that a global dust storm has taken over the planet. The storm is made up of fine dust and obscures all surface features.

The Stingray Nebula imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope on April 2, 1998.

The self-destruction of supernova 1987-A (C) is shown in this composite image taken in September 1994, February 1996, and July 1997.

This April 6, 1994 image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope shows stars that lie near the center of our galaxy about 25,000 light-years away. But one object, the blue curved line (top right), is something much closer. A mile-wide chunk of uncategorized rocky debris orbiting the sun just light minutes away was deflected into the camera field while the image was being exposed.

This is a Hubble Space Telescope “family portrait” of Jupiter’s four largest moons.

This April 1996 Hubble image shows the beautiful and mysterious silhouette of dark dust clouds against the bright core of the elliptical galaxy NGC 1316. It may represent the aftermath of a 100 million year cosmic collision between the elliptical and a galaxy. smaller companion. .

This image released on August 27, 2003 shows a close-up of the red planet Mars when it was only 34,648,840 miles away. The color image was assembled from a series of exposures. Many small, dark, circular impact craters can be seen, attesting to the Hubble telescope’s ability to reveal fine details on the planet’s surface.

The sun reflects off the newly installed solar panels of the Hubble Space Telescope while in the cargo bay of the space shuttle Endeavor on December 9, 1993.

Jeff Rudolph, president of the California Science Center in Los Angeles, is photographed in front of a Hubble Space Telescope image of part of the Carina Nebula, a place in our galaxy where stars are born, at the California Science Center on 17 of August. 2012.