Category: Numbers/Letters
Xs, Boomerangs and Butterflies
Credit: NASA & ESA
The wings of gas and dust of the Boomerang Nebula blossom into the letter X. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope took this image of twin reflecting clouds of gas and dust being ejected from this star. Astronomers call these bi-polar nebulae, butterfly nebulae or bow-tie nebulae. Scientists aren’t sure why the material from the star is being ejected in this way. Perhaps denser material across the star’s middle is forcing the star to eject gas and dust at the star’s poles. Or, maybe magnetic fields are funneling material toward the poles.
Swirling W
Credit: NASA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI)
Looping arcs of stars and dust create a cosmic letter “W” caught in the middle of this galactic encounter.
Disturbed “V”
Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University)
Galaxies collide to form this highly disturbed “V” in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of interacting galaxy IC 883.
Gravitational “U”
Credit: NASA, ESA, R. Gavazzi and T. Treu (University of California, Santa Barbara), and the SLACS team
The great gravity of an elliptical galaxy warps the light of two other galaxies to form a “U” in this image of a gravitational lens by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
Polar Ring “t”
The Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI/NASA)
An extraordinary polar ring “t” shows the bizarre variety of interacting galaxies in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 4650A.
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