Sh 2-305 Wall Art including Frame Frame Colors:Walnut Levay and R

Levay and R

This splendid picture shows the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) on Cerro Paranal in the Chilean Atacama desert

This image from 1991 shows Earth's Moon

and be the first mission to collect and cache Martian rock and regolith (broken rock and dust)

Sh 2-305 Wall Art including Frame Frame Colors:Walnut Levay and RThis gently glowing area of sky is actually a hot bubble of hydrogen gas named Sh 2 305 that has been bombarded by intense radiation from nearby stars. Such gas clouds are known as emission nebulae, or HII regions (pronounced H two). The radiation in question is in the ultraviolet part of the spectrum and is thought to emanate from at least two O type stars, and likely several others. This stellar class is the brightest and hottest that we know of