Image of the Day: 26/9/14

(Photo Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA/D. Calzetti (University of Massachusetts)/The LEGUS Team)

This amazing new image from the Hubble Space Telescope shows NGC 7793: a spiral galaxy located 13 million light-years away from Earth in the Sculptor constellation. NGC 7793 is one of the brightest galaxies in the Sculptor Group and one of the closest groups of galaxies to the Local Group — the group of galaxies containing our galaxy, the Milky Way.

Image of the Day: 6/9/14

(Two jets of gas and dust blast from Comet 67P– Photo Credit: ESA/Rosetta/ Navcam/Bob King)

New images of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, taken by the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft, show an amazing pair of jets vigorously expelling ice crystals, mixed with dust, from its nucleus.