NASA’s illustration of the Whirlpool galaxy with unseen images is majestic. Have you seen it yet? | Top Vip News

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) never fails to mesmerize us with its stunning revelations of the vast expanse of the cosmic world. Recently, NASA took to Instagram to share a bunch of images showing the beauty of the incredible Whirlpool Galaxy. The space agency also mentioned that while some are composite images created with data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, others are prepared using data from the Hubble Space Telescope.

The post features five different images of the Whirlpool Galaxy in different colors. Sharing the post on Instagram, NASA wrote: “Shedding some light on spiral galaxies. At a distance of about 30 million light years from Earth, the Whirlpool Galaxy is one of the brightest spirals in the night sky.

This composite image of the Whirlpool Galaxy shows the majesty of its structure in a spectacular new way through several of NASA’s orbiting observatories. As you cycle through different spectra, each shows the galaxy through a new lens: X-ray data from @NASAChandraXray reveals point sources (purple) that are black holes and neutron stars in binary star systems.

Chandra also detects a diffuse glow of hot gas permeating the space between the stars. Optical data from @NASAHubble (green) and infrared emission from the Spitzer Space Telescope (red*) highlight long fringes in spiral arms consisting of stars and gas mixed with dust. “A view of M51 with the GALEX telescope shows young, hot stars that produce a lot of ultraviolet (blue) energy.”

For the first image, NASA wrote: “Composite image of the Whirlpool galaxy. The larger of the two galaxies is blue, with red accents, highlighted with bright purple stars. The companion galaxy glows green, also with red details.” While describing the second image, the space agency stated: “X-ray image of the Whirlpool galaxy. The Chandra image highlights the central energetic regions of the two galaxies in violet that interact that are collectively called the Whirlpool Galaxy.” NASA described the third image as an “Optical image of the Whirlpool galaxy. The Hubble image shows the majestic spiral arms that are actually long strips of stars and gas covered in dust. The gravitational influence of the companion triggers star formation in the Whirlpool Galaxy, as seen in the numerous clusters of young, bright stars (green).” NASA added on the fourth image: “The infrared image of the Whirlpool Galaxy from Spitzer also reveals stars and the glow of interstellar dust clouds in red. The dust is primarily composed of a variety of carbon-based organic molecules.” For the fifth, NASA wrote: “Ultraviolet images of the Whirlpool galaxy using GALEX data (colored blue) indicate that very little star formation is occurring in the companion galaxy.”

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