Category: Letters

A Confused Galactic V

01 March 2013 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

NASA/ESA Hub­ble

Check out a galactic-sized “fly­ing V in this image of inter­act­ing galax­ies IC 2184 from NASA’s Hub­ble Space Telescope.

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Dark Banded S

22 May 2012 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

ESO

A dark, warped band of dust resem­bling a shal­low ‘S’ curls through the cen­ter of galaxy Cen­tau­rus A in this image from the Euro­pean South­ern Observatory.

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Super S

24 January 2012 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: ESA/Hub­ble & NASA

A super “S” traces through sprawl­ing arms of spi­ral galaxy M100 in this image from the NASA/ESA Hub­ble Space Telescope.

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Stellar Exclamation

23 August 2011 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: X-ray NASA/CXC/IfA/D.Sanders et al; Opti­cal NASA/STScI/NRAO/A.Evans et al

Col­lid­ing galax­ies form an excla­ma­tion point in this com­pos­ite image from NASA’s Chan­dra and Hub­ble telescopes.

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Spiral Z

12 August 2011 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

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

Glow­ing gas and starlight with dark bands of inter­stel­lar dust cre­ate a cos­mic let­ter Z in this image from NASA’s Hub­ble Space Tele­scope. NGC 1300 is con­sid­ered the typ­i­cal barred spi­ral galaxy.

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