Most Amazing SPACE Photos!

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SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/Subscribe_ThePhotoCollector MY BEST VIDEOS: http://bit.ly/BestVideos_Overview *********************** Social Media (5) ********************** MY TWITTER: https://twitter.com/_PhotoCollector MY GOOGLE+: http://Gplus.to/ThePhotoCollector MY FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/thephotocollector.official MY TUMBLR: http://the-photo-collector.tumblr.com MY INSTAGRAM: http://instagram.com/thephotocollector_official ***************************************************************** World's most amazing photos - Part 21: "Space" PLAYLIST: http://bit.ly/Playlist_WorldsMostAmazIngPhotos ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The story behind the photos: Photo number 10: The Orion Nebula is a diffuse nebula situated south of Orion's Belt in the constellation of Orion. The Orion Nebula is one of the most scrutinized and photographed objects in the night sky, and is among the most intensely studied celestial features. Photo number 9: A transit of Venus across the Sun takes place when the planet Venus passes directly between the Sun and Earth, becoming visible against the solar disk. During a transit, Venus can be seen from Earth as a small black disk moving across the face of the Sun. The duration of such transits is usually measured in hours. Transits of Venus are among the rarest of predictable astronomical phenomena. They occur in a pattern that generally repeats every 243 years. Photo number 8: 'Mystic Mountain' is a pillar of gas and dust, three light-years tall. The pillar is being assaulted from within, as infant stars buried inside it fire off jets of gas that can be seen streaming from towering peaks. This turbulent cosmic pinnacle lies within a tempestuous stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula, located 7500 light-years away in the southern constellation of Carina. Photo Number 7: This image of two interacting galaxies, called Arp 273, has been released by the organization that operates the Hubble Space Telescope in celebration of the 21st anniversary of its launch into space. Gravitational forces have pulled the objects into the shape of a rose on a stem as seen from Earth's vantage point. Photo Number 6: Io is the innermost of the four Galilean moons of the planet Jupiter and, with a diameter of 3,642 kilometres (2,263 mi), the fourth-largest moon in the Solar System. With over 400 active volcanoes, Io is the most geologically active object in the Solar System. Photo number 5: A supernova remnant (SNR) is the structure resulting from the explosion of a star in a supernova. The supernova remnant is bounded by an expanding shock wave, and consists of ejected material expanding from the explosion, and the interstellar material it sweeps up and shocks along the way. Photo number 4: Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun, and Saturn's aurora is a glowing region of ionized gas that is produce by charged particles from the solar wind. Saturn's aurora was discovered by the Pioneer 11 spacecraft in 1979 and observed by the Saturn flybys of the Voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft in the early 1980s, but the first images of the aurora were not obtained until 1994 by the Hubble Space Telescope. Photo number 3: This image, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, is a very thin section of a supernova remnant caused by a stellar explosion that occurred more than 1,000 years ago. On or around May 1, 1006 A.D., observers from Africa to Europe to the Far East witnessed and recorded the arrival of light from what is now called SN 1006, a tremendous supernova explosion caused by the final death throes of a white dwarf star nearly 7,000 light-years away. Photo number 2: Tycho's Supernova was a supernova of Type Ia in the constellation Cassiopeia, one of about eight supernovae visible to the naked eye in historical records. Tycho, the remnant of SN 1572, named after Tycho Brahe who recorded the brightness of its original explosion. Photo number 1: V838 Monocerotis is a red variable star in the constellation Monoceros about 20,000 light years from the Sun. The star was observed in early 2002 experiencing a major outburst. Originally believed to be a typical nova eruption, it was then realized to be something completely different. The reason for the outburst is still uncertain, but several conjectures have been put forward, including an eruption related to stellar death processes and a merger of a binary star or planets.