Tag: Circinus
Flower in Circinus
by CritterKeeper on Apr.12, 2010, under Plants/Flowers
Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
A red flower blossoms in the southern constellation of Circinus in this image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. NGC 5315 is a planetary nebula.
Black Widow
by CritterKeeper on Jan.18, 2010, under Bugs, birds and other animals
Credit: NASA/JPL–Caltech/E. Churchwell (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and the GLIMPSE Team
A cosmic spider-shaped nebula hides in a dark corner of space. Astronomers looking toward the constellation Circinus with earth-based telescopes saw only a fuzzy, hourglass-shaped patch of light. But when they turned the dust-piercing, infrared light gathering NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope at this spot in the sky, they discovered a nebula blooming with clusters of massive young stars. Astronomers called it the “Black Widow Nebula.”
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