Gallery: Space Photos of the Week: Stars Playing Bumper Cars
<a href="http://www.keckobservatory.org/recent/entry/scientists_discover_brightest_early_galaxy_with_likely_first_generation_sta">Artist's Impression, David Sobral</a>01Fig2-1800-1280
Astronomers recently discovered the brightest galaxy ever found in the early Universe. There is strong evidence that examples of the first generation of stars might be found inside.
<a href="http://www.gemini.edu/node/12379">Gemini Observatory/AURA </a>02Liller1-Med
A cluster called Liller 1 where the stars are so densely packed that it might be one of the few places in our galaxy where astronomers think stars can collide.
<a href="http://alma.mtk.nao.ac.jp/e/news/pressrelease/20150618alma_precisely_measures_black_hole_mass.html">ESO/R. Gendler</a>03A Galactic Embrace
A photo of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1097 that has a central supermassive black hole (SMBH) with a mass 140 million times the mass of the Sun.
<a href="http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/photos/imagedetails/index.cfm?imageId=5203">NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute</a>04PIA17196
An image of Saturn's moon Dione, taken during a close flyby at an altitude of 321 miles from Dione's surface. Saturn's geysering moon Enceladus can be seen in the upper right corner as well.
<a href="http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/sdo/still-a-filament-arrow"> NASA/SDO</a>05SPOW-Jun-14-20
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory photo of the sun. The image shows what’s left of two arrow-shaped solar filaments, dark features hovering above the sun’s surface by its magnetic field. Scientists still don’t know how or why they form.
<a href="http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/hubbles-true-blue-compact-dwarf"> ESA/Hubble & NASA</a>06SPOW-Jun-14-20-02
This is the galaxy UGC 11411, an irregular blue compact dwarf galaxy. It’s ten times smaller than a regular galaxy and made up of large groups of giant stars that are so hot they sometimes have a blue hue.
<a href="https://public.nrao.edu/news/pressreleases/alma-weigh-black-hole">ALMA (NRAO/ESO/NAOJ), K. Onishi; NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, E. Sturdivant; NRAO/AUI/NSF </a>07NGC1097wRadio-nrao
A composite image of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1097 with a supermassive black hole at the galactic center that has a mass 140 million times greater than our Sun. In comparison, the black hole at the center of the Milky Way has a mass that is only a few million times greater than our Sun.
