Posts Tagged ‘Circinus’
New face of a supernova
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/B. Williams (NCSU)
The outline of a face show the remains of the oldest documented supernova in this infrared image of RCW 86 from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE.
Flower in Circinus
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
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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