Posts Tagged ‘Eridanus’

Quasar-like “Q”

02 August 2011 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hub­ble Her­itage Team (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Col­lab­o­ra­tion and A. Evans (Uni­ver­sity of Vir­ginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University)

NGC 1614’s bright cen­ter glows with a quasar-like bright­ness in this image from NASA’s Hub­ble Space Tele­scope. And with its faint tail, the inter­act­ing galaxy resem­bles the let­ter “Q” as our starry alpha­bet hunt continues.

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Peek Deep

13 April 2011 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Richard (CRAL) and J.-P. Kneib (LAM). Acknowl­edge­ment: Marc Post­man (STScI)

Using a super-heavyweight galaxy as a mag­ni­fy­ing glass, sci­en­tists peer deep into the uni­verse in this image from the NASA/ESA Hub­ble Space Telescope.

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Pieces of Fuzz

28 March 2011 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: ESA/Hub­ble & NASA

With loose spi­ral arms, NGC 1345 resem­bles a piece of starry fuzz in this image from the NASA/ESA Hub­ble Space Telescope.

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Galactic Gator

18 February 2010 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: NASA, ESA, S. Gal­lagher (The Uni­ver­sity of West­ern Ontario), and J. Eng­lish (Uni­ver­sity of Manitoba)

A galac­tic gator looms in this image of the inter­act­ing galax­ies of the Hick­son Com­pact Group 31. Four dwarf galax­ies are in the process of col­lid­ing, light­ing up the sky as new stars come to life.

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