Posts Tagged ‘dwarf galaxy’

Pink Puffs

03 January 2012 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: ESA/Hub­ble & NASA

Pink puffs of cloud cre­ated by super­novae explo­sions dom­i­nate this image from NASA’s Hub­ble Space Telescope.

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A snortful of stars

20 May 2011 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: ESA/Hub­ble & NASA

Two galac­tic eyes peer­ing over a smushed nose resem­bles a man­a­tee in this image from the NASA/ESA Hub­ble Space Telescope.

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Starry Bug

03 February 2010 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: NASA & ESA

Float­ing like a bug under a micro­scope, I Zwicky 18 is an odd-looking galaxy. Astronomers pre­vi­ously thought this pecu­liar galaxy was very young because it resem­bles galax­ies typ­i­cally found in the early uni­verse. But images from NASA’s Hub­ble Space Tele­scope show older stars within the galaxy lead­ing sci­en­tists to update their ideas. They now believe I Zwicky 18 was born about the same time as the Milky Way Galaxy and the Androm­eda Galaxy.

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Star-osaur

29 January 2010 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: NASA, ESA, A. Aloisi (STScI/ESA), and The Hub­ble Her­itage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration

To me, this image from NASA’s Hub­ble Space Tele­scope looks like a lum­ber­ing, long-necked Bron­tosaurus. Maybe a tur­tle with a long tail. What do you see in this image?

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Galactic Fireworks

31 December 2009 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: NASA, ESA, and K. McQuinn (Uni­ver­sity of Min­nesota, Minneapolis)

Watch­ing fire­works is always enjoy­able but see­ing bursts of star-making light up a galaxy caps a great year of astronomy.

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