astro picture(s) of the day

Image Credit & Copyright: Ivan Eder

This picture has Cygnus X-1 - the first black hole discovered, in the 1970s. The blue bow shock is from the black hole's affect on the surrounding nebula.

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble, MAST; Acknowledgement: Judy Schmidt

Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, SwRI, MSSS; Processing: Damian Peach

another great new picture of Jupiter from the Juno spacecraft

Image Credit: ESO, VLT Survey Telescope

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble, HLA; Reprocessing & Copyright: Raul Villaverde

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble, HLA; Reprocessing & Copyright: Raul Villaverde

Image Credit - NASA/ New Horizons

Image Credit - ALMA observatory - NRAO, NSF Math & Phys Sci, NAOJ

Image Credit - ALMA, NRAO, NAOJ ALMA project, Nature Astronomy

A Dark Winter Sky over Monfragüe National Park in Spain
Image Credit & Copyright: José Luis Quiñones (Entre Encinas y Estrellas)

and for the craziest astronomical discovery possible, a moon of Saturn!

I shit you not!

Image Credit & Copyright: Adam Block, Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter, U. Arizona

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble, HLA; Reprocessing & Copyright: Jesús M.Vargas & Maritxu Poyal

UGC 12591: The Fastest Rotating Galaxy Known
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, Hubble

Image Credit & Copyright: Alyn Wallace Photography

One of the best Aurora pictures I've seen.

Credit:

NASA, ESA/Hubble . . . i'm not sure that these images are zoomable enough for my readers actually.  One should go to at least one source of my astro pictures - ESA/NASA Hubble Space Telescope and click some of the downloads on the right hand side.  Zoom up pretty close -just before you see pixels and roam around.  There's also a zoom movie at this link - > New Hubble image of Kleinmann-Low Nebula

Note further that the ESA/NASA Hubble Space Telescope webpage names this Kleinmann-Low Nebula, and not just Orion nebula.  The Orion Nebula has this Kleinman-Low part, and the Horseshoe nebula at another part.  You can see this viewing the zoom in movie at the link above.