Posts Tagged ‘Centaurus’
Angry Bird
Credit: ESO
Watch out for the angry bird in this image of the Lambda Centauri Nebula from the European Southern Observatory.
Jellyfish Supernova
Credit: NASA/CXC/UCSC/L. Lopez et al.
Tucked away in the constellation Centaurus, a colorful bubble of gas and dust resembling a jellyfish, is all that remains of a great star.
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.
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.
Bird in the hair
Credit: ESO/NASA/JPL-Caltech/S. Kraus
A winged bird alights in the hair of a face in this nebula captured by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope.
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