Archive for January, 2010
Star-osaur
Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Aloisi (STScI/ESA), and The Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration
To me, this image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope looks like a lumbering, long-necked Brontosaurus. Maybe a turtle with a long tail. What do you see in this image?
Galaxian Dragonfly
Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University)
This galaxian dragonfly, wings folded, rests deep in space. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope clearly shows a pair of merging, edge-on galaxies called NGC 6670. Astronomers believe the two galaxies have already had one close encounter with each other and are making a second pass. The galaxies are just 50,000 light years apart. For comparison, our Milky Way Galaxy is 100,000 light-years wide and the nearest large galaxy to it is the Andromeda Galaxy at two million light-years away.
Of Snakes and Snails
Credit: NASA & ESA
The landscape of Mars’ hazy Hellas Basin twists and turns as if someone spread warm peanut butter across it and let it ooze downhill. Features, shown in this image from NASA’s HiRISE camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, snake across the plain. Some shapes curl up in shell-like shapes. Explore the strange landforms. Between some of the snake-like, flowing shapes, you can find sand dunes and craters.
A Glowing Pencil
Credit: NASA, ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
A stellar shockwave from a supernova 11,000 years ago forms a line in space reminding many observers on Earth of a pencil.
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