Archive for August, 2010
Blowing Bubbles
30 August 2010
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Credit: NASA, ESA, Mohammad Heydari-Malayeri (Observatoire de Paris, France)
New stars in N83B are blowing bubbles in this image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
Starry Ducky
24 August 2010
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Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University)
Resembling a starry ducky, a pair of faraway galaxies known as IRAS 21101+5810, merge together in a sky crowded with nearby stars from our own Milky Way.
Cluster of Jewels
23 August 2010
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Credit: European Space Agency & NASA
A cluster of jewels, known as NGC 265, glows in the Small Magellanic Cloud.
Solving a mystery
20 August 2010
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Credit: NASA, ESA, E. Jullo (JPL/LAM), P. Natarajan (Yale) and J-P. Kneib (LAM).
Sometimes what we can’t see is as important as what we can. Using new techniques, astronomers are helping solve the big mystery of dark energy in the Universe and perhaps its ultimate fate.
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