https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/RSS/?TagShow=space|nasa| en hourly 1 https://www.wallpaperfusion.com https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/nasa/18960/ Tue, 21 Jan 2014 21:41:13 GMT https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/nasa/18960/ An extended wallpaper of the space shuttle breaking through a layer of clouds.]]> An extended wallpaper of the space shuttle breaking through a layer of clouds.]]> https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/pillars-of-creation-2015/22034/ Tue, 06 Jan 2015 21:16:55 GMT https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/pillars-of-creation-2015/22034/ NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revisited the famous Pillars of Creation, revealing a sharper and wider view of the structures in this visible-light image.
Astronomers combined several Hubble exposures to assemble the wider view. The towering pillars are about 5 light-years tall. The dark, finger-like feature at bottom right may be a smaller version of the giant pillars. The new image was taken with Hubble's versatile and sharp-eyed Wide Field Camera 3.
The pillars are bathed in the blistering ultraviolet light from a grouping of young, massive stars located off the top of the image. Streamers of gas can be seen bleeding off the pillars as the intense radiation heats and evaporates it into space. Denser regions of the pillars are shadowing material beneath them from the powerful radiation. Stars are being born deep inside the pillars, which are made of cold hydrogen gas laced with dust. The pillars are part of a small region of the Eagle Nebula, a vast star-forming region 6,500 light-years from Earth.
The colors in the image highlight emission from several chemical elements. Oxygen emission is blue, sulfur is orange, and hydrogen and nitrogen are green.]]> NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revisited the famous Pillars of Creation, revealing a sharper and wider view of the structures in this visible-light image.
Astronomers combined several Hubble exposures to assemble the wider view. The towering pillars are about 5 light-years tall. The dark, finger-like feature at bottom right may be a smaller version of the giant pillars. The new image was taken with Hubble's versatile and sharp-eyed Wide Field Camera 3.
The pillars are bathed in the blistering ultraviolet light from a grouping of young, massive stars located off the top of the image. Streamers of gas can be seen bleeding off the pillars as the intense radiation heats and evaporates it into space. Denser regions of the pillars are shadowing material beneath them from the powerful radiation. Stars are being born deep inside the pillars, which are made of cold hydrogen gas laced with dust. The pillars are part of a small region of the Eagle Nebula, a vast star-forming region 6,500 light-years from Earth.
The colors in the image highlight emission from several chemical elements. Oxygen emission is blue, sulfur is orange, and hydrogen and nitrogen are green.]]> https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/jwst-carina-nebula/27786/ Mon, 05 Sep 2022 17:46:08 GMT https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/jwst-carina-nebula/27786/ Carina Nebula as captures by the JWST.]]> Carina Nebula as captures by the JWST.]]> https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/smacs-0723-by-jwst/27787/ Wed, 31 Aug 2022 17:00:07 GMT https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/smacs-0723-by-jwst/27787/ JWST first deep-field image of SMACS_0723.]]> JWST first deep-field image of SMACS_0723.]]> https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/stephans-quintet-by-jwst/27788/ Mon, 29 Aug 2022 15:27:53 GMT https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/stephans-quintet-by-jwst/27788/ James Webb Space Telescope Stephan's Quintet.]]> James Webb Space Telescope Stephan's Quintet.]]> https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/star-surrounded-by-a-protoplanetary-disk/23468/ Wed, 27 Apr 2016 13:20:00 GMT https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/star-surrounded-by-a-protoplanetary-disk/23468/ This illustration shows a star surrounded by a protoplanetary disk. Material from the thick disk flows along the star’s magnetic field lines and is deposited onto the star’s surface. When material hits the star, it lights up brightly.]]> This illustration shows a star surrounded by a protoplanetary disk. Material from the thick disk flows along the star’s magnetic field lines and is deposited onto the star’s surface. When material hits the star, it lights up brightly.]]> https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/we-have-lift-off/23472/ Fri, 29 Apr 2016 19:34:42 GMT https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/we-have-lift-off/23472/ Photo of the Orion spacecraft launching.]]> Photo of the Orion spacecraft launching.]]> https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/astronaut/4499/ Wed, 03 Oct 2012 19:33:00 GMT https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/astronaut/4499/ An astronaut outside of the shuttle - waving hello.]]> An astronaut outside of the shuttle - waving hello.]]> https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/expedition-31/3935/ Tue, 02 Oct 2012 00:50:48 GMT https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/expedition-31/3935/ The sun rises a little more than two and half hours before the Soyuz spacecraft with Expedition 31 Soyuz Commander Gennady Padalka, Flight Engineer Sergei Revin, and NASA Flight Engineer Joe Acaba aboard launched to the International Space station on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.]]> The sun rises a little more than two and half hours before the Soyuz spacecraft with Expedition 31 Soyuz Commander Gennady Padalka, Flight Engineer Sergei Revin, and NASA Flight Engineer Joe Acaba aboard launched to the International Space station on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.]]> https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/space-station-space-walk/3786/ Wed, 26 Sep 2012 02:37:43 GMT https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/space-station-space-walk/3786/ Astronaut Clay Anderson, Expedition 15 flight engineer, waves to the camera while participating in a session of extravehicular activity as construction continues on the International Space Station.]]> Astronaut Clay Anderson, Expedition 15 flight engineer, waves to the camera while participating in a session of extravehicular activity as construction continues on the International Space Station.]]> https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/first-cubesat-deployment/5019/ Wed, 10 Oct 2012 14:23:51 GMT https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/first-cubesat-deployment/5019/ A NASA photo of the first time a Cubesat has been deployed from the JAM module on the ISS.]]> A NASA photo of the first time a Cubesat has been deployed from the JAM module on the ISS.]]> https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/space-walk/3344/ Fri, 21 Sep 2012 03:38:04 GMT https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/space-walk/3344/ An astronaut out in space.]]> An astronaut out in space.]]> https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/gemini-xi-tribute/4425/ Thu, 04 Oct 2012 13:35:38 GMT https://www.wallpaperfusion.com/Image/gemini-xi-tribute/4425/ A wallpaper tribute to the Gemini xi mission - the ninth manned spaceflight mission of NASA's Project Gemini.]]> A wallpaper tribute to the Gemini xi mission - the ninth manned spaceflight mission of NASA's Project Gemini.]]>