Archive for May, 2010
Mirror, Mirror
Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University)
Nearly a mirror image of the other, the interacting galaxies that make up NGC 5331 are beginning to link spiral arms.
California
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE Team
A wave of gas and dust that looks much like California (if you turn it a bit) runs diagonally through this image from NASA’s WISE satellite.
Teardrops on Mars
Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
During the Martian spring, all kinds of strange things happen in the arctic thaw. Spider-like channels form. Dust devils dance along the dunes and tear-drop hollows form in the carbon dioxide ice where geysers erupt. All this is part of the defrosting after a long martian winter.
Garden Sprinkler
Credit: NASA, ESA
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope spies a sprinkler system in space. Some objects in space defy explanation and Henize 3–1475 is one of them. Henize 3–1475, also known as the Garden-Sprinkler Nebula is a planetary nebula. Astronomers are puzzled by the jets shooting out of this nebula. Planetary nebulae have nothing to do with planets. In early telescopes, observers noted that some objects in the sky resembled the disks of planets.
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