The "Eye of God" predicts the future of our Sun.
NASA space telescopes have taken spectacular new photos of the Helix Nebula (NGC 7293) glowing celestial bodies, which resemble a giant cosmic eye.
The Helix Nebula is located in the constellation Aquarius at a distance of about 650 light-years from Earth - it is one of the planetary nebulae closest to us.
The nebula has become widely known outside of scientific circles due to its unusual shape. NGC 7293 really looks like a huge eye, which intcbatch viewing us from space. Journalists therefore dubbed it the "eye of God" or "the eye of God."
According to NASA, NGC 7293 is a planetary nebula that formed in the place of an ordinary star. As stars age (a process that takes billions of years), they gradually use up their "fuel", hydrogen and helium. When it ends completely, big Bang, and the so-called white dwarf remains in place of the old star, surrounded by gases ejected during the explosion. They form a nebula, writes Utro.ru.
The same fate awaits our Sun (in about five billion years). It will become a white dwarf, a small star of very high mass.
White dwarfs are comparable in size to the Earth, but have a mass very close to the original star, NASA scientists note in their report, that is, their density is many orders of magnitude greater than the density of planets. "A teaspoon of white dwarf matter weighs as much as several elephants!" - explained in the American space agency.
Our ancestors, who lived on this planet a millennium ago, did not have the technology and resources that we have now to explore our universe and beyond. Therefore, in those days, many astronomers spent their nights looking up at the sky, putting forward theories and telling tales about the heavens above them. Unbeknownst to them, what was happening light-years away was more transcendent than the most exciting stories they could think of.
Over the past 50 years, NASA has opened the door to space exploration through its sophisticated telescopes last word technology and automatic research stations that allow us to explore the various nooks and crannies of space. The only way for us to see the universe is through NASA's photographs, unless you're one of the lucky ones who can afford to buy a ticket to space from Virgin Galactic.
It is very important to note that choosing a list of just twenty photos out of hundreds of thousands is very difficult and impossible to do without a certain amount of subjectivity. The photographs we will show you below are some of the most breathtaking images taken from satellite imagery during planetary exploration and spaceflight. If you think we missed any great shots, post them in the comments!
So, we present to your attention a list of the twenty most amazing photographs taken by NASA:
20. Hubble Extreme Deep Field
In the early stages, the Hubble Telescope was used to image ultra-far space, located in a small region in the constellation Ursa Major (Ursa Major). NASA recently released a new version of this image called Hubble Extreme Deep Field, which was created from 2,000 photographs of what appeared to be an empty patch of sky in just two million seconds. Each pixel, blob, swirl, and point of light in this image represents an entire galaxy. Just imagine the scale of this space. Many billions of stars have been compressed into a single pixel in this photograph.
19. Chaos in the Heart of Orion
The combined image from the Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes shows the chaos of newborn stars located 1,500 light-years away at the very center of the Orion Nebula. It is the closest massive cluster of stars to us, and astronomers believe it contains more than 1,000 young stars. The photograph shows a cluster of newborn stars scattered throughout the Nebula. The Orion Nebula is the brightest area of Orion's sword, also known as the constellation "The Hunter".
18. Yuri Malenchenko's spacewalk 
Every time an astronaut has to exit a vehicle in space, it is called a spacewalk. On September 11, 2000, cosmonaut-researcher Yuri Malenchenko was photographed during his spacewalk, thanks to which we can admire this breathtaking photo. That day, Yuri Malenchenko and astronaut Edward T Lu spent more than 6 hours in open space performing work on the outside of the International space station(International Space Station).
17. Eye of God
The Helix Nebula, also known as the "Eye of God", is located approximately 650 light years from the Sun in the constellation Aquarius. Its length is approximately 2.5 light years. On inner edge The Helix Nebula shows knots of constituent gases of unidentified elements. The photo is a composite image from the Hubble Space Telescope and wide-angle images from the Mosaic Camera at the Kitt Peak National Observatory.
16. Rosette Nebula
The Rosette Nebula is a huge spheroid-shaped region located next to a giant molecular cloud in the constellation Monoceros (Monoceros) in the galaxy Milky Way(Milky Way), approximately 5200 light years from Earth. This nebula is simply huge and covers six times the area of the surface of the entire moon. As shown in the image above, the Rosette Nebula is a region of active star formation that glows as a result of ultraviolet radiation from young, hot blue stars, whose winds inevitably pass through its center.
15. Hercules A - Black Hole
At first glance, "Hercules A" is a typical oval galaxy, but it is unique in that its center is such a massive black hole that our galaxy looks insignificant in comparison. The Hercules A galaxy is located just over 2 billion light-years from our Milky Way and its total mass exceeds the mass of our galaxy by about 1000 times. The purple patches seen in this photo are most likely due to particles of matter colliding with each other and heating up as they are pulled into black hole.
14. Crab Nebula
The stunningly beautiful death of a star in the constellation Taurus was first seen by Chinese astronomers as a supernova in 1054. Nearly a thousand years later, an astonishing opaque object known as a neutron star that formed in an explosion released a cluster of high-energy particles into an expanding field known as the Crab Nebula.
This combined image was obtained by combining photographs of three observatories. The Hubble Space Telescope optical images are red and yellow, the Chandra X-ray image is blue, and the Spitzer infrared image is purple. Like many other telescopes, Chandra has frequently observed the Crab Nebula since the mission began.
13. Two spiral galaxies
This image of two galaxies was created thanks to Hubble images taken from three angles. Powerful tidal forces of the larger galaxy NGC 2207 on the left, changed the shape of the smaller galaxy IC 2163, ejecting gas and stars in long streams that spread over 100,000 light-years. IC 2163 does not have enough energy to escape NGC 2207's gravitational pull, so it will be constantly pulled back. The small galaxy will be constantly trapped in their shared orbit, and both of these galaxies will continue to change and interrupt each other. Subsequently, most likely, in billions of years, both galaxies will merge into one huge galaxy. There is a theory that a number of galaxies that exist today, including the Wash Way, were formed as a result of a similar process of merging smaller galaxies over a period of billions of years.
12. "MAVEN" ("The evolution of the atmosphere and volatile substances on Mars") (Mars Orbiter)
The image above shows artificial satellite NASA, known as "MAVEN", which is exploring the upper atmosphere of Mars in order to help in understanding climate change on the red planet. Early discoveries, thanks to the recently launched satellite, have begun to reveal key details about how the Martian atmosphere was reclaimed by space over time. The data obtained from MAVEN included the discovery of a new process by which the solar wind can penetrate deep into the planet's atmosphere.
11. Inside the Flame Nebula
This infrared image from the Chandra X-ray Orbital Observatory shows the incredible star-forming region known as NGC 2024 and the Flame Nebula. It is located in the constellation of Orion, approximately 1400 light years from Earth. According to scientists, the stars located in the center of the cluster are about 200,000 years old, while the age of the stars located on its outer edge can be up to 1.5 million years.
10. Light Echoes
Hubble took another amazing image, this time of a light echo. Since January 2002, scientists have been keeping a close eye on a rather unusual star called V838 Monocerotis, about 20,000 light-years from Earth. At the time of the explosion, which lasted several weeks, this star was 600,000 times brighter than the sun. Over time, the star began to dim, but the light thrown out by it made its way out of the star, illuminating the nebula surrounding the star. The light then hit the gas cloud of the nebula and was reflected in several places. Because of this, the light from the explosion spread throughout the universe, spreading space dust from what the European Space Agency (ESA) calls "the most spectacular light echo in the history of astronomy."
9. Comet C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy) (Comet Lovejoy)
Comet C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy) is a periodic comet. This means that it can have very variable orbits and periods of appearance ranging from 200 to 1000 years. Lovejoy's orbital period is approximately 8,000 years. The comet recently passed very close to Earth, appearing as a very bright spot in the sky. As you can see from the photo, Comet Lovejoy has a detailed ion tail made up of ionized gas emitted by ultraviolet radiation from the Sun, which is pushed outward by the solar wind. This explains the formation of the comet's beautifully structured tail.
8. Martian sunrise
While this image may not be as stunning or stunning as some of the others on this list, the photo above is just one of many amazing images taken by the Curiosity Rover on Mars. Watching the sun set on our own planet can be a wonderful and awe-inspiring experience, but what could be more exciting than watching the sun set on another world? Maybe one day people will be able to observe this spectacle not in photographs, but with their own eyes.
7. Blue Marble
Called "Blue Marble", this stunning image is the most detailed and true to color photograph of the Earth. Scientists have combined many months of observation of the Earth's surface, sea ice, oceans and clouds into one collage showing in real color every square kilometer of our planet. A large number of The information collected in this image was obtained from a single NASA remote signaling and reconnaissance instrument called the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer.
6. Crossbow "Curiosity" 
A robot weighing 1 ton made an unprecedented landing on Mars on August 5, 2012. The arrival of Curiosity was extraordinary for many reasons, including the search for evidence of the existence of ancient life on the red planet and its biosphere based on chemotrophic and autotrophic microorganisms, which would make human settlement on Mars a real possibility in the near future. Since its arrival on the red planet, the rover has been doing very interesting things. This photo is a great example of this: who would have thought that we could send a robot to Mars that can make crossbows?
5. The first notable solar flare of 2015
On January 12, 2015, the Sun ejected a mid-level solar flare, and this striking phenomenon was captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory, which regularly monitors the processes occurring on the Sun. Solar flares are extremely powerful bursts of radiation. radiation from solar flare cannot pass through the Earth's atmosphere, but if powerful enough, it can disrupt the Earth's atmosphere at the level where the GPS radio signals pass.
4. Pillars of Creation
The original photograph on which this image is based was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope on April 1, 1995. To mark the upcoming 20th anniversary, astronomers created an image of the "Pillars of Creation" in high resolution presented above. It was released to the delight of the public in January of this year. The Pillars of Creation are located in the Eagle Nebula, 7,000 light years away. They are made up of molecular hydrogen and dust that corrode due to photoevaporation caused by ultraviolet radiation from nearby hot stars.
3. Europa is an icy moon of Jupiter
This astounding photograph is the best ever image of Jupiter's icy moon. this moment. Europa has long intrigued scientists due to the fact that it shows signs of an ocean below the surface, and also because cracks are clearly visible on its surface. The ocean appears to be shielded from damaging radiation, making Europa one of the most likely space bodies in the solar system to host alien life. This is one of the main reasons why it is so enticing to scientists. Europa has all the elements that scientists believe are necessary for the origin of life: energy, water and organic matter.
2. Saturn Smiles for Cassini
In October 1997, an automatic spacecraft Cassini-Huygens, which arrived at Saturn in 2004. Since then, the device has taken many amazing images, but this mosaic of Saturn simply defies description. This image shows something that happens very rarely. The sun illuminated Saturn from behind and the Cassini-Huygens apparatus was closer than usual to the surface of Saturn. This allowed him to capture this stunning image with incredible colors and stunningly detailed Saturn's rings.
1 Amazing Solar Eruption
Our Sun is a repository of extremely hot plasma entwined with magnetic fields. On August 31, 2012, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory was observing the Sun when, during a solar storm, powerful magnetic fields on the surface of the Sun shot outward in a spiral of plasma. The coil of plasma, moving away from the surface of the Sun at a speed of 1400 kilometers per second, flew off from its surface at a distance of 300,000 kilometers.
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This photo is very rare, and the event itself happens once every three thousand years.
This photo has already done wonders in many lives.
Think of a wish... you see the Eye of God.
That's for sure: you will see changes in your life within a day.
I felt them the same evening I saw the photo...
Send it to your friends.
This photo was taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.
It's called: "THE EYE OF GOD"
Analysis: These are authentic photographs (actually, composite images) taken by the Hubble Telescope and the Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona. It was featured on NASA"s website as an Astronomy Picture of the Day in May 2003 and thereafter reproduced on a number of websites under the title "The Eye of God" (though I have found no evidence that NASA has ever referred to it as such). Она появилась на сайт НАСА астрономии Картинка дня мае 2003, а затем воспроизвести на несколько веб-сайтов под названием "Глаз Бога" (хотя я не нашел доказательств того, что НАСА никогда не называл ее таковой) . The awe-inspiring image has also been featured on magazine covers and in articles about space imagery. Впечатляющие изображения также появлялась на обложках журналов, и в статьях о космических снимков.!}
What it actually depicts is the so-called Helix Nebula , described by astronomers as "a trillion-mile-long tunnel of glowing gases." What it actually depicts is the so-called Helix Nebula, described by astronomers as "a trillion-mile long tunnel of luminous gases." At its center is a dying star which has ejected masses of dust and gas to form tentacle-like filaments stretching towards an outer rim composed of the same material. At its center a star dies, which ejects a mass of dust and gas, forming tentacle-like filaments stretching out towards the outer edge composed of the same material. Our own sun may look like this in several billion years. Our own sun could look like this in a few billion years.
Update: Another giant eye in space was photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope on May 4, 2009. In this case the image, one of the last taken with the Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, captured the Kohoutek 4-55 planetary nebula in the constellation Cygnus. 4-55 is a planetary nebula in the constellation Cygnus.
Image Credit: NASA, WIYN, NOAO, ESA, Hubble Helix Nebula Team, M. Meixner (STScI), & TA Rector (NRAO). Image: NASA, WIYN, NOAO, ESA, Hubble Team Helix Nebula, M. Meixner (STScI), and T. A. Rector (NRAO).
As soon as space telescopes were put into orbit, and these are the Hubble optical telescope, the Chandra X-ray telescope, the infrared Spitzer and the ultraviolet GALEX, images began to arrive on Earth, some of which look quite impressive.
Some space objects photographed by orbiting telescopes are simply amazing. It seems that someone is trying to give us a secret sign that people are constantly under the supervision of some higher beings. A snapshot of the star cluster Arp 194, located at a distance of 100 thousand light years from Earth, resembles a question mark. As if someone, surprised by the behavior of people, sends us a silent question. Orange
The "hook" of the question mark represents a cluster of galaxies in the process of merging.
And at a distance of about 450 million light years, colliding galaxies formed an exclamation point.
Shortly after a number of scientists began to assure that they had discovered the edge of the universe, a picture was taken of an object consisting of a dense gas accumulation stretching for 600 light years. And it resembles in its shape the sign of infinity, as if hinting that the Universe has no edge. She is endless.
The image of the Spiral Nebula NGC 7293, formed after the explosion of a distant star, makes a strong impression. Located 700 light-years from Earth, the object looks remarkably like an eye.
From the center of the explosion, dust-like fragments of the star scatter in all directions and jets of gas fly out, forming a picture that is strikingly reminiscent of the human eye. Astronomers have dubbed the most beautiful object with a black "pupil" and a blue "iris" - the "Eye of God". The nebula NGC 7293 was discovered back in 1824 by German astronomer Carl Ludwig Harding. Only in telescopes located on the Earth it seemed that it had the shape of a spiral.
NGC 7293 is constantly expanding at a speed of 100 thousand kilometers per hour. Currently, the diameter of the "pupil" is 2.2 light years. Astronomers suggest that the "eye" first "looked" at us about 12,000 years ago. It is believed that it was at that time that Atlantis died.
Launched by NASA in 2009, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer - Wise infrared telescope into space has betrayed a picture of a giant dying star in the constellation Carina - V385 Carinae. It throws its substance into space. And this substance looks like giant half-open lips in the picture. The bright dot located inside the "lips" is the dying star. Distance to frozen in space giant
"kiss" is about 16 thousand light years.
The light of a dying star is about a million times brighter than the light of our Sun. Scientists believe that the red color of the "lips" is due to oxygen atoms, from which powerful ultraviolet radiation from the star knocked out 
electrons. The return of electrons to their orbits is accompanied by a red light. Some call the object the "Kiss of the Universe", others the "Kiss of God". Whoever likes it.
There is also a picture resembling a hand. Of course, the object was called the "Hand of God". Each finger is about 160 light years across. And the “hand” appeared about 17 thousand years ago.
The giant "Bubble" was photographed 16 years ago. But then, studying the pictures, they simply did not pay attention to him. And the quality of the pictures was not the same, and the object looked too dull. It wasn't until 2008 that the Bubble was spotted by Mount Wilson Observatory astronomer Dave Jurasevich. Most planetary nebulae are elliptical in shape, rarely cigar shaped, and extremely rare bubble shaped.
The Hubble Telescope took a picture of the disk galaxy NGC 4452 discovered in 1784 by astronomer William Herschel. In a nineteen inch telescope, it looked like a small speck. Only a photo taken by Hubble shows the true scale of this distant galaxy, made up of billions of stars, 60 million light-years away.
The galaxy is visible from the end. Because of this, it is similar in shape to a giant "flying saucer", with a diameter of 35 thousand light years. Astronomers do not exclude that the inhabitants of NGC 4452, the Milky Way galaxy, which includes our solar system, is also visible as a giant flying saucer.
Exploring outer space, scientists come to the conclusion that our universe was born instantly, within a trillionth of a second, expanding from a small ball to billions in size.
light years. Using the WMAP satellite launched by NASA in 2001, it was possible to establish that the radius of the universe is approximately 13.7 billion light years. And objects located at such a distance can be studied from the Earth. Or rather, from near-Earth space.
