Archive for February, 2010
Dragon Jewels
Credit: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration
A dragon swoops in to protect its jewels in this image of NGC 3603. Thousands of sparkling new stars form one of the most massive star clusters in the Milky Way Galaxy.
Starfish Arm Wrestling
Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and K. Noll (STScI)
These galaxies seem to me like starfish arm wrestling or tossing a ball. NGC 6050 and IC 1179 offer a stunning example of merging spiral galaxies in this image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
Cosmic Burger
Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Would you like fries with that giant cosmic hamburger? Gomez’s Hamburger is a strange planetary nebula that looks like a hamburger but it’s actually a sun-like star nearing the end of its life. The central star, which we cannot see in this image, expelled large amounts of gas and dust and may one day develop a more familiar colorful, glowing planetary nebula.
Carnival of Space #142
Everyone should wander over to the Carnival of Space #142 this week. Starry Critters dives into the new Hubble, Spitzer, and GALEX image of interacting galaxies that make up Hickson Compact Group 31.
Chaotic Butterfly
Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Chaos reigns in the center of this butterfly-shaped nebula in the constellation Puppis. NGC 2440 is a planÂeÂtary nebÂula and is the remains of a star like our Sun. The complex structure within the center of this nebula suggest to astronomers that the star has ejected material periodically in various directions.
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