Gallery: Space Photos of the Week: Dang That's a Purdy Supernova
<a href="http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/veil-nebula-supernova-remnant">NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team</a>01SPoW-Sept20-26-05
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has unveiled a small section of the expanding remains of a massive star that exploded about 8,000 years ago. Known as the Veil Nebula, the debris is one of the best-known supernova remnants, deriving its name from its delicate, draped filamentary structures. The entire nebula is 110 light-years across, covering six full moons on the sky as seen from Earth, and resides about 2,100 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus, the Swan.
<a href="http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1537/?lang">ESO</a>02SPoW-Sept20-26-03
This new image of the rose-colored star forming region Messier 17 was captured by the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile. It is one of the sharpest images showing the entire nebula. It not only reveals its full size but also retains fine detail throughout the cosmic landscape of gas clouds, dust and newborn stars.
<a href="http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/astronomers-identify-a-new-mid-size-black-hole">ESO</a>03SPoW-Sept20-26-01
Astronomers identify a medium-sized black hole in the central region of galaxy NGC1313. NGC1313 is 50,000 light-years across and lies about 14 million light-years from the Milky Way in the southern constellation Reticulum.
<a href="http://www.eso.org/public/images/eso0925b/">ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2</a>04SPoW-Sept20-26-02
A color composite of the Omega Nebula (M 17) made from exposures from the Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS2). The field of view is approximately 4.7 x 3.7 degrees.
<a href="https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/2015-19">NASA/JPL-Caltech</a>05SPoW-Sept20-26-04
ASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, stellar winds flowing out from the fast-moving star Zeta Ophiuchi are creating a bow shock seen as glowing gossamer threads, which, for this star, are only seen in infrared light.
<a href="http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/cassini/pia18334/moons-in-hiding">NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute</a>06SPoW-Sept20-26-07
Look closely and you just might see Saturn's moons, hidden in the planet's rings. Prometheus (53 miles or 86 kilometers across) and Pandora (50 miles or 81 kilometers across) orbit along side Saturn's narrow F ring, which is shaped, in part, by their gravitational influences. Their proximity to the rings also means that they often lie on the same line of sight as the rings, sometimes making them difficult to spot.
