Archive for March, 2010
Spitting Dragon
Credit: NASA, ESA, N. Smith (University of California, Berkeley), and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
A dragon spits star dust in the Carina Nebula. This dragon is part of a huge glowing and swirling cloud of gas and dust. In this image we see star birth as well as star death within the Great Nebula in Carina, also known as NGC 3372.
Flying Dust
NASA/CXC/JPL-Caltech/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA
Dust from the remains of a collapsed star flies past a nearby family of stars in this image from NASA’s Chandra and Spitzer space telescopes.
Keyhole
NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI)
A glowing keyhole beckons in this star-forming region of the galaxy toward the constellation Orion. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows the foggy light of the reflection nebula NGC 1999.
Cosmic Buds
NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE Team
Flower-shaped nebula abound in the cosmos. This churning bud blossoms with new stars in a new infrared image from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. The stars, called the Berkeley 5 cluster, show as blue dots to the right of the image. They shine in the cloud from which they formed only about a million years ago.
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