Archive for July, 2010

Prancing Star Horse

30 July 2010 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: NASA and ESA

A star horse prances with faroff galax­ies in this image of Hick­son Com­pact Group 59 in this image from NASA’s Hub­ble Space Telescope.

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A Bull’s-Eye

29 July 2010 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

On a planet filled with craters of every shape and size, an unusual impact crater came to the atten­tion of sci­en­tists study­ing Mars using NASA’s HiRISE cam­era aboard the Mars Recon­nais­sance Orbiter.

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WISE Image of Dusty Sisters

28 July 2010 Written by CritterKeeper 1 Comment

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE Team

Dozens of stars in the Pleiades star clus­ter glow through a cool mist in this image from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Sur­vey Explorer, or WISE.

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Reaching Fingers

27 July 2010 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: NASA, ESA, R. O’Connell (Uni­ver­sity of Vir­ginia), F. Paresce (National Insti­tute for Astro­physics, Bologna, Italy), E. Young (Uni­ver­si­ties Space Research Association/Ames Research Cen­ter), the WFC3 Sci­ence Over­sight Com­mit­tee, and the Hub­ble Her­itage Team (STScI/AURA)

Ghostly fin­gers of gas and dust reach up to grab a glit­ter­ing, young stars of NGC 3603 in this image from NASA’s Hub­ble Space Telescope.

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A Cosmic Painting

07 July 2010 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: ESA

R Coro­nae Aus­tralis lights up wispy blue clouds of gas and dust of this intense star-forming region 420 light-years from Earth.

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