Astronomy

Pictured here is a Hubble Space Telescope image on Stingray Nebula. Located in constellation Ara (The Altar) at the distance of 18.000 light years, this beautiful object considered as the youngest planetary nebula ever observed!
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This Chandra X-ray Observatory image shows the debris of a massive star explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy about 160,000 light years from Earth. The supernova remnant (SNR) shown here, N132D, is the brightest in the Magellanic clouds, and belongs to a rare class of oxygen-rich remnants. Most of the oxygen that […]

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Yet another result from Cassini mission. During a close flyby on March 12, the spacecraft tasted and sampled a surprising organic brew erupting in geyser-like fashion from Saturn’s moon Enceladus. New heat maps of the surface show higher temperatures than previously known in the south polar region, with hot tracks running the length of giant […]

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After the Cat’s Eye Nebula, we also have Cat’s Paw Nebula. Located in southern Scorpius, near NGC 6357 and the H 12 region with the IC 4628 nebula, it is actually an emission nebula with a red color that originates from an abundance of ionized hydrogen atoms.
Like typical emission nebula, Cat’s Paw Nebula composed […]

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This is not a valentine card! The object pictured here, known as IC 1805, is a young star cluster surrounded by Ha emitting nebulosity, located in the constellation Cassiopeia. This region is also known as the “Heart Nebula,” since it resembles a heart on a wider field view. IC 1805 is located about 7,500 […]

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Pictured here is a 50-light-year-wide view of the central region of the Carina Nebula where a maelstrom of star birth - and death - is taking place. This picture also considered as one of the largest panoramic images ever taken with Hubble’s cameras.
The immense nebula contains at least a dozen brilliant stars that are […]

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Pictured above is one of the Eagle Nebula’s striking dust pillars that could be imagined as a gigantic fairy. This fairy, however, does not grant wishes; instead, it is ten light-years tall and spews radiation much hotter than common fire. The greater Eagle Nebula, M16, is actually a giant evaporating shell of gas and dust […]

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This picture taken by MESSENGER spacecraft shortly after its closest approach to Mercury on January 14, 2008. The spacecraft’s Narrow Angle Camera (NAC) on the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS) instrument acquired this image as part of a mosaic that covers much of the sunlit portion of the hemisphere not viewed by Mariner 10. Images […]

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This picture shows galaxy ESO 593-IG 008, or IRAS 19115-2124. The previously taken Hubble images shows that the object are colliding two galaxies — one a barred spiral, and the other is more irregular. But recent observation with ESO’s Very Large Telescope made clear identification of a third, separate component, an irregular, yet fairly massive […]

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This composite image shows the jet from a black hole at the center of a galaxy striking the edge of another galaxy, the first time such an interaction has been found. X-rays from Chandra (colored purple), optical and ultraviolet (UV) data from Hubble (red and orange), and radio emission from the Very Large Array (VLA) […]

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