Category: Numbers
Galactic Niner
Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and W. Keel (University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa)
Merging together to form the number 9, two galaxies comprise AM0500-620.
Eight-Burst
Credit: The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA/NASA)
Shaped like the number eight, astronomers in the southern hemisphere call this the Eight-Burst or the Southern Ring Nebula. NGC 3132 is a planetary nebula. The name “planetary nebula” refers to the shape of the nebula. Astronomers in the 17th and 18th centuries found many objects in the night sky that resembled planets. But the expanding shells of gas and dust are all that is left of a star that has reached the end of its life.
Mirror 7
Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University)
Forming the number seven, the interacting galaxies that make up NGC 5331 mirror each other as they begin to link spiral arms.
Swirl 6
Credit: NASA, ESA, The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Locked in a graceful, gravity-induced dance with another galaxy, NGC 3808 appears as a swirling number six.
Spiral 5
Credit: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
The swirling arms of NGC 3310 blaze the number five in this image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
Welcome
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…Read More
Connect
By The Riviera Times
By CritterKeeper
By Sarah Q. Brett