Here we Go !
1 : The Crab Nebula
The Hubble telescope captured this beautiful shot of the Crab Nebula, some 6,500 light years away from Earth in the constellation Taurus.
2 : Black hole shredding a star (illustration)
X-ray observations have shown astronomers what happens when a star gets eaten by a Black hole, and this is what they think it looks like. Brutal.
3 : HUBBLE BUBBLE
The Bubble Nebula, 7 light years across.
4 : "High Dune" in Mars' Bagnold dune field
The Curiosity rover gave us our First Close-up Dunes of Mars’ Dunes in November 2015. Scientists are trying to understand what forces drive Mars' dunes to have ripples so much larger than Earth's.
5 : The largest map ever made (Daniel Eisenstein and SDSS-III)
The dots in this image represent nearly 50,000 galaxies. It's part of the largest map of universe ever made. The Sloan Digital Sky Survey and its Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey are mapping 1.2 million galaxies in three dimensions across the sky. Each dot's color indicates its distance from Earth; yellow is closer, and purple is farther.
6 : Pluto's heart
The day before the New Horizons spacecraft flew by Pluto, it sent us this Love letter. The image was taken on July 13 from a distance of 476,000 miles, and it has a resolution of 2.5 miles per pixel. Since the flyby, New Horizons has sent back loadsand loads of really cool pictures from this world on the edge of the solar system.
7 : Jupiter's moons
The moons of Jupiter are rarely seen together. Getting three of the four Galilean moons (the moons of Jupiter observed by Galileo) together in one shot is something that only occurs every 5 to 10 years, which makes these images from the Hubble very exciting. Here you can see both the body and shadows of Callisto, Io, and Europa. Jupiter's other Galilean moon, Ganymede wasn't invited to this party, apparently.
8 : The EAGLE Nebula, Revisited
The iconic Hubble photograph, the Pillars of Creation, caused a stir when it was released in 1995. Now, 20 years later, the Hubble has revisited the Eagle nebula to capture a sharper vision of the 'Pillars', towers of gas that are more than five light-years tall.
Last but not the least,
9 : Our Beautiful planet : EARTH
More than just pretty pictures, views of Earth from space can help us learn more about how and where humans are spreading. Image captured by NASA.
Source : NASA, ESA, The Hubble Heritage Team, JPL-Caltech, MSSS, SDSS-III, ESO, VVV Consortium & Popular Science.