Image Gallery for AstroImages
Most of the following images have been retrieved from the following webpages:
The astronomical picture of the day
The Hubble Space Telescope Heritage Gallery
The SEDS webpage of Messier objects
Sorry, if I forgot someone, it was not on purpose ;-)
Lunar eclipse in Utrecht, photos by myself
Phenomena in the Earth's atmosphere
Aurora borealis over Oklahoma
1280 x 853
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Fireball over South Wales, Uk
1280 x 960
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Phenomena in the Sun's planetary system
Mars
1217 x 899
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Giant flare at the Sun, observed by SOHO
200 x 200
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Some spectacular nebulae (illuminated gas and/or dust)
CatEye Nebula
1019 x 932
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Egg Nebula
1000 x 800
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Reflection Nebula in the open cluster Pleiades
800 x 1000
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Star clusters in the local universe
Milky Way Globular Cluster M3
376 x 340
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Milky Way Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae
1280 x 1024
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Milky Way Globular Cluster Omega Centauri
400 x 320
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Milky Way Open Cluster M45 (The Pleiades)
567 x 468
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Actively star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud: 30 Doradus
400 x 412
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Some "normal" galaxies
M101
1043 x 1024
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M104 - The Sombrero Galaxy
1280 x 1024
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Some starburst galaxies
06_M82.jpg
912 x 1024
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NGC7742 - Starburst Ring Galaxy
800 x 1000
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Some interacting galaxies
Interacting Pair of Spiral Galaxies
1235 x 689
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Antennae Galaxies - Merging Galaxy Pair 1280 x 869
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Antennae Galaxies - Details: star clusters
1280 x 870
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The Mice - Interacting Pair of spiral galaxies
3973 x 1865
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07_Tadpole_Galaxy.jpg
937 x 1024
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M51 - The Whirlpool Galaxy
1280 x 854
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Some groups of galaxies
Seyferts Sextett
516 x 387
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Stephans Quintett
1024 x 1024
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Stephans Quintett including redshifts = distances
Not all galaxies are physically part of the group!
400 x 200
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Some samples of galaxies
Hubble Deep Field - Long exposure of a part of the sky using HST
1014 x 1024
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Galaxy lenses in the galaxy cluster Abell2218 - Light bend by gravity
1280 x 653
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Toomre evolutionary sequence of merging galaxies"
1274 x 871
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ULIRGs - Powerful starbursting galaxies, starburst probably interaction triggered
1054 x 634
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