Pillars of Creation and Small Magellanic Cloud in astronomical images of the week

Every week, on Space Gaze Programwe showed two astronomical images that stood out last week. And last week, we presented two more images from a series in which we will show astrophotographs produced here in Brazil, by Brazilians. Check them out:

(Credits: Rodrigo Maeda – Valparaiso, SP)

The first image shows the beauty of the Eagle Nebula or M16, an open star cluster surrounded by a dark nebula and gases that reflect the light of young, hot stars at its center. At the heart of the Eagle Nebula is a pillar-shaped nebular formation that concentrates a large amount of cosmic dust known as the “Pillars of Creation.” A true stellar nursery, full of cocoons where gravity is concentrating gases to give rise to new stars. The Eagle Nebula is located 7,000 light-years away, in the direction of the constellation Serpens.

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Small Magellanic Cloud

(Credits: Bruno Rota Sargi – Araraquara, SP)

The second image is a spectacular record of the Small Magellanic Cloud, an irregular satellite galaxy of the Milky Way located about 200,000 light-years away between the constellations of Tucan and Hydra. Astronomers believe that the Small Magellanic Cloud was a barred spiral galaxy that was deformed by the gravity of the Milky Way. This image highlights its various star-forming regions, which are nebulae of gas and dust that help generate some of the hundreds of millions of stars that make up the galaxy.

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APOD Brazil

The choices for this week's Astronomical Images were made from the APOD Brasil website (a portal maintained by astronomers and photography enthusiasts, dedicated to promoting the beauty of the Cosmos. APOD Brasil aims to publish an astronomical photograph every day, promoting the work of Brazilians, and other nationalities, committed to revealing the wonders of our Universe. Those interested in contributing to the APOD Brasil portal, and also to the Astronomical Images of the afrilatest Espacial Week, can do so through the form available on the website: