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Gallery of Andromeda Star Clusters

Gallery of Andromeda Star Clusters from Andromeda Project Catalog

Hubble Image Mosaic of Andromeda

Hubble Image Mosaic of Andromeda, based on PHAT survey data. This image, captured with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is the largest and sharpest image ever taken of the Andromeda galaxy, otherwise known as M31. You would need more than 600 HD television screens to display the whole image. It is the biggest Hubble image

Gas Outflows Near Milky Way’s Central Black Hole

Marked on this ALMA image are the locations and orientations of 11 gas outflows, which look like the bipolar lobes made by young protostars. These outflows are all within about 3 light-years of our galaxy’s supermassive black hole, marked with a star. Outflow #1 has the most obvious structure; the rest don’t show up well

Black Holes Inside a Globular Cluster

Still image from a simulation of black holes inside a globular cluster. Learn more and view movies here.

Shredded Star Cluster

Most stars are born together in families of hundreds to thousands, known as star clusters. Over time, the pull of gravity from the galaxy can overcome the gravitational bond holding the family of stars together, shredding the star cluster apart. In this image, the lines show the paths of individual stars in a computer model

Birth of a Solar System

Gas-rich “proto-planetary” disks surround young, still forming stars, feeding them through accretion of dust and gas. These are the birthplaces of planetary systems. This image shows a simulation of a possible gas disk progenitor for the real exoplanetary system HR8799. Today, HR8799 has four, six-Jupiter-mass planets, 30 million years into their lives, surrounded by a