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This colourized image of Chandra X-Ray Telescope shows NGC 2264 or the Christmas Tree Cluster. The blue and white dots are young stars and the green background shows gas in the nebula.

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This beautiful nebula captured by Hubble Telescope shows IC 2631. It is a prominent star-forming region in the constellation Chamaeleon. The bright dots are actually early stars called protostars. Eventually, the core of these protostars becomes hot and dense enough to start nuclear fusion.

This amazing image of interacting galaxies by Hubble shows NGC 169 (bottom) and IC 1559 (top). When two galaxies interact, like this then matters including gases and even stars gets attracted from one galaxy to another.

This ultraviolet image by Hubble shows a giant spiral galaxy named M81. In the constellation Ursa Major, it is about 12 million light-years away from the Earth.

This image from Hubble shows two colliding galaxies, collectively named Arp 91. This beautiful yet massive collision is happening at about 100 million light years away from the Earth. The lower galaxy is NGC 5953 and the larger one in upper right is NGC 5954.
Both of these galaxies are spiral, hence their collision will form a new elliptical type galaxy.

This unique image captured by Hubble shows a Herbig-Haro Object, HH 45. The Herbig-Haro objects are rarely seen in the universe. These are created when hot gases from the newly born stars collide with gas and dust around it at hundreds of miles per hour, creating a shock wave. The HH 45 is also known as the Running Man and is located in NGC 1977. In the image the blue color shows ionized oxygen and purple shows ionized magnesium.

This amazing object was captured by Chandra X-Ray Telescope. The object is not a nebula, but a pair of a white dwarf and a red giant orbiting each other. White dwarf gradually absorbs matter from the red giant. Over time much of this matter gets triggered and explodes. The red and blue parts are from observations of the Hubble Telescope and the purple shows data from the Chandra Telescope.

This image from Hubble Space Telescope shows Aarp 298, which contains two galaxies, NGC 7469 and IC 5283. It lies nearly 200 million light-years away from the Earth in the constellation Pegasus. The larger of the two galaxies is NGC 7429, which hosts a supermassive black hole at its centre.
Apart from Arp 298, the image shows various other galaxies in the background.
Arp 298 is also one of the main targets of the James Webb Telescope.

This system of colliding galaxies is VV-689, nicknamed the Angel Wing. The galaxies are in the midst of collision, giving an almost symmetrical shape.

The discoveries made by Edwin Hubble led to the foundation of extragalactic astronomy. He challenged Einstein's theory of a static universe and proved that the universe is indeed expanding. One interesting fact about Hubble is that he initially studied law on his father's demand. He later turned into a professional astronomer after his father's death.

This amazing butterfly-shaped gas nebula is Westerhout 40 (W40), also known as Sharpless 64 or Sh2-64. The butterfly wings are actually hot gas blowing from the hottest and the most massive star in the region. The nebula is located about 1420 light-years away from the Earth, in the constellation Serpens.

The majority of stars in the universe are red dwarfs, especially M- dwarf stars. Then why life is developed on a planet revolving around a yellow star (The Sun)?
Red Sky Paradox was developed by astronomer David Kipping to answer this question.

The Red Sky Paradox Humans are scanning and searching the whole sky in order to find any evidence of alien life. But why finding alien life is so hard?

Michael Collins, an Apollo 11 astronaut said the following words when he was orbiting the Moon, while Neil and Buzz successfully landed on the Moon. He finds himself flying between the Earth and the Moon. On his left side, he saw whole humanity and on his right side, he was two brave men making their first footsteps on our Moon.

Carl is an inspirational man for the present and upcoming generations. It's very difficult to say that any human will understand the cosmos the way Carl did.

Dirac played a significant role in developing quantum mechanics. Dirac was a very unusual person. Einstein regarded him as a person balancing between the unstable path of genius and madness.
Another interesting thing about Dirac's unique nature was his thoughts on poetry. He once said, "I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time."
Won Noble Prize in 1933, yet he lacked the skill of common interaction. Once Neils Bohr complained that Dirac did not know how to finish a sentence in a scientific article.
He was a man with poor communication and writing skills, but he had a very sharp brain. That's the reason why he is one of the most respected physicists of the 20th century.
It's always motivating and interesting to read about these great minds. They all played a very vital role in the advancement of our present world.

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This closeup image of Jupiter by Juno shows the Great Red Spot. However, amazing feature of this image is a newly discovered storm (at the centre of the image). This storm is known as Clyde's Spot.
South African astronomer Foster Clyde discovered it on May 31, 2020.

This unlucky irregular galaxy is NGC 1427A. This galaxy is crossing a wrong cluster of galaxies. A large cluster, known as the Fornax cluster is gravitationally pulling the stars of this galaxy. This result in distortion of NGC 1427A.
In next few million years, the galaxy will lose its identity.

This amazing structure is called the Arp 148 or the Mayall's Object, named after the discoverer Nicholas Mayall, the image shows two galaxies colliding. It is located about 500 million light-years away from the Earth in the constellation Ursa Major.
This famous is taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.

This is M101 or the Pinwheel galaxy, a spiral galaxy located about 21 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. The stars in this galaxy have an abundance of hydrogen, hence the galaxy looks very bright in different spectrum wavelengths.

This is SNR 0509-67.5, a supernova remnant located in the Large Magellanic Cloud in the constellation Dorado. This X-ray image clearly shows a shock wave. The red color shows an excess of iron in the supernova.

This is SNR 0454-67.2, a supernova remnant with a very rare fashion. Located in Large Magellanic Cloud, this supernova is created due to explosion of a white dwarf star.

This is NGC 5907 or the Knife Edge Galaxy, located about 50 million light-years away in the constellation Draco. The galaxy is actually spiral but we are looking at it edge-on, hence it looks like a straight plate.

This galaxy pair is known as IC 1623. The two galaxies are in the final stage of merging. These colliding galaxies are located in constellation Cetus.