Landscap - Louis Patru - c.1895-1905 - via Rijksmuseum
Modeling a Mr. Freedom dress at the Sands, 1970. Inset photo at Little Church of the West Algiers. Photos by Roy A. Giles. Scan from Honey Magazine, July 1970 by Featherstonevintage.
The elliptical galaxy M87 is the home of several trillion stars, a supermassive black hole and a family of roughly 15,000 globular star clusters. For comparison, our Milky Way galaxy contains only a few hundred billion stars and about 150 globular clusters. The monstrous M87 is the dominant member of the neighboring Virgo cluster of galaxies, which contains some 2,000 galaxies. Discovered in 1781 by Charles Messier, this galaxy is located 54 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Virgo. It has an apparent magnitude of 9.6 and can be observed using a small telescope most easily in May.
This Hubble image of M87 is a composite of individual observations in visible and infrared light. Its most striking features are the blue jet near the center and the myriad of star-like globular clusters scattered throughout the image.
The jet is a black-hole-powered stream of material that is being ejected from M87’s core. As gaseous material from the center of the galaxy accretes onto the black hole, the energy released produces a stream of subatomic particles that are accelerated to velocities near the speed of light.
Credits: NASA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Illustrations by Co Loerakker for a story about a dragon, published in the Dutch DONALD DUCK magazine in 1981.
Children's poems that never grow old, for little folks from six to twelve years old - Clement F. Benoit - 1922 - via Internet Archive
Globular cluster ESO 520-21 (also known as Palomar 6). A densely packed, roughly spherical collection of stars, it lies close to the centre of the Milky Way, where interstellar gas and dust absorb starlight and make observations more challenging.
Credits: ESA/Hubble and NASA, R. Cohen;