Xplore Space System

URANUS

Crediti: Nasa, Esa, Csa, StSci

Laniakea

Laniakea - Space visualization fly-through Deep Sky recently produced several space visualization animations for Burmer Music and Composition Lab. One of the sequences was visualizing our neighborhood...

IC 1101
THE LARGEST KNOWN GALAXY

Constellation: Virgo
Right ascension: 15h 10m 56.1s
Declination: +05° 44′ 41″
Distance: 1.070 billion ly
(328 million pc)
Radial velocity: 23,370 ± 30 km/s
Type: Elliptical galaxy
Class: E-S0
Size: 6.0 million ly

DOUBLE EXPLOSION

V572 Velorum, in the constellation Vela, exploded as a nova, a few days after the explosion of V462 Lupi. Both novae are visible to the naked eye from Earth.

Credit: IAU/SkyTelescope/Wikipedia/Eliot Herman