Space Destinations For The Budding Astronaut

Carina Nebula, Eta Carinae

The WR 22 and Eta Carinae regions of the Carina Nebula. On the right is the Wolf–Rayet star, WR 22 and in the nbula itself on the left is the unique star Eta Carinae. ESO/J. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.

Spiral galaxy NGC1232 and Little Theta space image

A spectacular image of the large spiral galaxy NGC 1232 and its distorted companion galaxy on the left side, shaped like the greek letter "theta". The central areas contain older stars of reddish colour, while the spiral arms are populated by young, blue stars an...

Tarantula Nebula star formation space picture

The Tarantula nebula is situated 170,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) in the Southern sky and is clearly visible to the eye as a large milky patch. Some see a headless flame-monster with outstretched wing-like arms. Image credit: This mosaic of the...

Edge-on Spiral Galaxy NGC 253

A nearly edge-on shot of the spiral galaxy, NGC 253. It's to be found in the southern constellation Sculptor, roughly 8 million light-years away. ESO/J. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.

Cats Paw Nebula in Scorpius - space picture

A breathtaking outer space picture showing an infrared view of the Cat’s Paw Nebula (NGC 6334) taken by VISTA. The whole gas cloud is about 50 light-years across and the nebula is one of the most active nurseries of young massive stars in our galaxy. Some are nearly ten ti...

Celestial Bauble

In this composite image, X-rays from Chandra and XMM-Newton have been colored blue and optical data from the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile are colored red and green. The flowering shape on the left is a star factory and on the right is the pulsar. Known ...

Stars of the Tarantula Nebula shi

Hundreds of brilliant blue stars wreathed by warm, glowing clouds in appear in this the most detailed view of the largest stellar nursery in our local galactic neighborhood. It's a jewel-encrusted scene from deep space. Image credit: Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3

Brightest Supernova Ever - outer space image

Just over a thousand years ago, the stellar explosion known as supernova SN 1006 was observed. It was brighter than Venus, and visible during the day for weeks. The brightest supernova ever recorded on Earth, this spectacular light show was documented in China, Japan, Euro...

The Eye of God - Helix Nebula Astronomy Image

A fantastic colour-composite image of the Helix Nebula (NGC 7293). The blue-green glow in the centre of the Helix nebula comes from oxygen atoms shining under the effects of the intense ultraviolet radiation of the 120 000 degree Celsius central star and the hot gas. Furt...

Orion Nebula and Trapezium Stars

A gorgeous picture from the deep universe featuring the bubbling, seething mass of gas and dust that is the Orion Nebula, 1500 light years away and the closest star-forming region to us. The nebula is a star nursery in which there are birthing, new-born, young and adult st...

Star Cluster Pismis 24 beauty in outer space

The star cluster Pismis 24 lies in the core of the large emission nebula NGC 6357. Part of the nebula is ionised by the youngest (bluest) heavy stars in Pismis 24. The intense ultraviolet radiation from the blazing stars heats the gas surrounding the cluster and creates a ...

Crab Pulsar Time Lapse - Neutron Star space image

Multiple observations made over several months with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope captured the spectacle of matter and antimatter propelled to near the speed of light by the Crab pulsar, a rapidly rotating neutron star the size of Manh...

A Starburst Galaxy - Cigar Galaxy space photo

This mosaic image of the magnificent starburst galaxy, Messier 82 (aka Cigar Galaxy) is a really sharp wide-angle view. It's a galaxy remarkable for its webs of shredded clouds and flame-like plumes of glowing hydrogen blasting out from its central regions where young ...

Cassiopeias Supernova Bubble - beauty in space

A beautiful poster for any budding astronomer. This extraordinarily deep Chandra image shows Cassiopeia A (Cas A, for short), the youngest supernova remnant in the Milky Way. Image credit: NASA/CXC/MIT/UMass Amherst/M.D. Stage et al.

Spiral Galaxy, Canes Venatici beauty in space

An amazing image from deep space. Messier 106 (also known as NGC 4258) is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1781. M106 is at a distance of about 22 to 25 million light-years away from Earth. It is also a Seyfer...

Pillars of Dust, Orion Nebula

The dark pillars of dust you can see are doing their best to resist erosion by the intense ultraviolet radiation from the most massive of Orion's stars. That aside, it's simply beautiful! Image credit: NASA, ESA, M. Robberto (Space Telescope Science Institute/ESA)...

Barred Spiral Galaxy outer space photo

A NASA Hubble Space Telescope view of the nearby barred spiral galaxy NGC 1672. A frequently-chosen galaxy for new astronomers to study. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Starry Wingtip - Aladdins Cave of Stars

The tip of the "wing" of the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy is dazzling in this new view from NASA's Great Observatories. The Small Magellanic Cloud, or SMC, is a small galaxy about 200,000 light-years way that orbits our own Milky Way spiral galaxy. It could ...

The Rings of Gas Giant Saturn - planetary image

A stunning image of Saturn, taken when the planet's rings were at their maximum tilt of 27 degrees toward Earth. Saturn experiences seasonal tilts away from and toward the Sun, much the same way Earth does. Between March and April 2003, researchers took full advantage...

Pillars of Creation Eagle Nebula Space Image

This is a soaring image of the Eagle Nebula, M16, taken in November 2004 with the Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. It shows a billowing tower of cold gas and dust, 9.5 light-years high, rising from a stellar nursery. Stars in the Eag...

Carina Nebula in Argo Navis beauty in space

This view of the Carina Nebula shows star birth in a new level of detail. The fantasy-like landscape of the nebula is sculpted by the action of outflowing winds and scorching ultraviolet radiation from the monster stars that inhabit this inferno. Image credit: Hubble Spac...

The Crab Nebula in Taurus outer space picture

This beautiful outer space image features a three colour composite of the well-known Crab Nebula (also known as Messier 1). Image credit: ESO/J. Emerson/VISTA, reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.

Mystic Mountain in Carina Nebula - awesome

A space image to make you think. The rich, interstellar gas clouds are feeding the formation of new stars in the Mystic Mountain region of the Carina Nebula. Mystic Mountain contains multiple places where birthing stars are firing off jets of gas which go on to interact wi...

Star Birth in Cygnus, The Swan

A star forming region in Constellation Cygnus (The Swan). This Hubble image shows a dust-rich, interstellar gas cloud with a new-born star in the centre of the hour-glass shape. It looks a little like an imagined celestial snow angel.

Penguin and Egg - Interacting Galaxy Duo, Arp 142

What looks like a celestial penguin and egg is really the result of a collision between a spiral and an elliptical galaxy at a whopping 326 million light- years away. The flat disk of the spiral NGC 2936 is warped into the profile of a penguin by the gravitational tug of t...

Stephans Quintet deep space star galaxy cluster

A clash among members of a famous galaxy quintet reveals an assortment of stars across a wide color range, from young, blue stars to aging, red stars. This portrait of Stephan's Quintet, also known as Hickson Compact Group 92, was taken by the new Wide Field Camera 3 (...

Desiderata - Christmas Tree Cluster & Cone Nebula

Inspirational Guidance series: The full Desiderata by Max Ehrmann: Go placidly amidst the noise and haste... With an inspiring colour image of the region known as NGC 2264 - an area of sky that includes the sparkling blue baubles of the Christmas Tree star cluster and the ...

View from Trappist-1f Exoplanet

A fabulous poster showing an artist's impression of the view from the surface of the exoplanet TRAPPIST-1f, located in the constellation Aquarius. In this view, the planets in the sky correspond to TRAPPIST1e (top left crescent), d (middle crescent) and c (bright dot t...

TRAPPIST-1 System Planet 1e retro space tourism ad

A wonderful, retro-style advert in an art-nouveau tradition. Some 40 light-years from Earth, a planet called TRAPPIST-1e offers a heart-stopping view: brilliant objects in a red sky, looming like larger and smaller versions of our own moon. But these are no moons. They ar...

Experience The Gravity of a Super Earth hol advert

Twice as big in volume as the Earth, HD 40307g straddles the line between "Super-Earth" and "mini-Neptune" and scientists aren't sure if it has a rocky surface or one that's buried beneath thick layers of gas and ice. One thing is certain though...

Titan Moon of Saturn vacation advert space tourism

Ride The Tide through the Throat of Kraken! Frigid and alien, yet similar to our own planet billions of years ago, Saturn's largest moon, Titan, has a thick atmosphere, organic-rich chemistry and a surface shaped by rivers and lakes of liquid ethane and methane. Cold w...

Relax on Kepler 16b vacation advert space tourism

Kepler-16b orbits a pair of stars. Depicted here as a terrestrial planet, Kepler-16b might also be a gas giant like Saturn. Prospects for life on this unusual world aren't good, as it has a temperature similar to that of dry ice. But the discovery indicates that double...

Space Tourism Advert - Solar System Grand Tour

It urges you to take the same grand tour of the solar system taken by NASA's Voyager mission. Visit Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune just like the twin spacecraft of Voyager! A really cool poster for your wall. It's a wonderful, retro-style vacation advert in a...

Jovian Aurora space destination vacation advert

Jupiter is the destination of choice for many space vacationers. The Jovian cloudscape boasts the most spectacular light show in the solar system, with northern and southern lights to dazzle even the most jaded space traveler. Jupiter's auroras are hundreds of times mo...

Vacation on Kepler 186f Where Grass is Alway Red

Kepler-186f is the first Earth-size planet discovered in the potentially 'habitable zone' around another star, where liquid water could exist on the planet's surface. Its star is much cooler and redder than our Sun. If plant life does exist on a planet like Kep...

Ceres dwarf planet vacation advert space tourism

A wonderful, retro-style vacation advert for the dwarf planet, Ceres. It's the closest dwarf planet to the Sun and the largest object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, with an equatorial diameter of about 965 kilometers. After being studied with teles...

Return To Earth space tourism advert

A sentimental, retro-style vacation advert for off-worlders. There's no place like home. Warm, wet and with an atmosphere that's just right, Earth is the only place we know of with life – and lots of it. JPL's Earth science missions monitor our home planet and ...

Enceladus Moon of Saturn advert for space tourism

A wonderful, retro-style vacation advert for a visit to the icy geysers of Enceledus, moon of Saturn. The discovery of Enceladus' icy jets and their role in creating Saturn's E-ring is one of the top findings of the Cassini mission to Saturn. Further Cassini missio...

Wandering Planet vacation advert space tourism

Discovered in October 2013 using direct imaging, PSO J318.5-22 belongs to a special class of planets called rogue, or free-floating, planets. Wandering alone in the galaxy, they do not orbit a parent star. Not much is known about how these planets come to exist, but scient...

Mars Historic Sight vacation advert space tourism

This poster imagines a future day when we have achieved our vision of human exploration of Mars and takes a nostalgic look back at the great imagined milestones of Mars exploration that will someday be celebrated as “historic sites.” It's a wonderful, retro-style vaca...

Venus Obsevatory for Mars transit vacation advert

A gorgeous, retro-style vacation destination advert. It advertises Venus' Cloud-Top Observatory as a great place to watch the transit of the sun by Mercury. Get this poster for your wall! Image credit: NASA Exoplanet Exploration Program Office

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