Archive for September, 2010

Galactic Zoo

Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hub­ble Her­itage Team (STScI/AURA)

Far away in the dark lies this diverse galac­tic zoo.

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Carnival of Space #171

Wel­come to the 171st install­ment of spacey enjoy­ment; some­thing we like to call the Car­ni­val of Space. Pull back the tent flap and come on in. There’s more good­ness on the inside.

Oileán Ruaidh – most beautiful Barsoomian meteorite yet

Oileán Ruaidh

You know it’s always hard to know where to start when there is so much inter­est­ing news. There’s been a lot of talk about mete­orites on Earth and near-Earth objects this week. But you may not have heard of Oileán Ruaidh. The Road to Endeav­our calls it the most beau­ti­ful Bar­soo­mian mete­orite ever.

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Life on the Edge

Credit: ESA/Hub­ble & NASA

An ancient ball of stars, known as NGC 6934, lies at the outer reaches our galaxy in this image from NASA’s Hub­ble Space Tele­scope.

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Starry Beach

Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hub­ble Her­itage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Col­lab­o­ra­tion

Wispy waves of gas and dust wash up on the shores of a starry beach in this image of a small part of the Veil Neb­ula from NASA’s Hub­ble Space TeleÂscope.

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Bar None

Credit: Euro­pean South­ern Obser­va­tory (ESO)

A new image from the pow­er­ful HAWK-I tele­scope on Euro­pean South­ern Observatory’s Very Large Tele­scope at Paranal Obser­va­tory in Chile reveals the per­fect form of NGC 1365.

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The ancient peo­ples saw pic­tures in the sky. From those pat­terns in the heav­ens, ancient sto­ry­tellers cre­ated leg­ends about heroes, maid­ens, drag­ons, bears, cen­taurs, dogs and myth­i­cal crea­tures…
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