Posts Tagged ‘ESO’

Ethereal Purple Petals

11 February 2013 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

ESO

Pur­ple petals, an eerie pur­plish eye or tire glow in this image from the Euro­pean South­ern Observatory.

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Carnival of Space #272

23 October 2012 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

It’s time for another roundup of the lat­est space news from var­i­ous blogs around cyber­space; some­thing we call Car­ni­val of Space. Watch your step and look up as you board the lat­est ride through the carnival.

Per­haps the biggest, cer­tainly the most excit­ing, news last week was the announce­ment from the Euro­pean South­ern Obser­va­tory of a scorch­ing world orbit­ing uber-close to Alpha Cen­tauri B. It’s also the light­est exo­planet dis­cov­ered around a Sun-like star, reports Next Big Future.  Nancy Atkin­son at our host Uni­verse Today detailed the new find­ing. Astroblog­ger offers reflec­tions (and a celes­tia file) on the recent Earth-sized red-hot planet.

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The Helmet of a Hero

08 October 2012 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

ESO/B. Bailleul

Ancient bards spun tales of heroes res­cu­ing maid­ens and the eter­nal strug­gle of good ver­sus evil. So it’s fit­ting that a huge glow­ing hel­met with gos­samer wings should adorn the head of Thor, one of mytholo­gies great­est fig­ures. Gaze deep into the rich neb­ula of glow­ing gas and dust in this amaz­ing image of Thor’s Hel­met from the Euro­pean South­ern Obser­va­tory.

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Butterfly of Combined Light

25 September 2012 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

X-ray: NASA/CXC/U.Mich./S.Oey, IR: NASA/JPL, Opti­cal: ESO/WFI/2.2-m

When NASA com­bines images from dif­fer­ent tele­scopes they cre­ate amaz­ing works of art and we learn a few things.

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Strangely Shaped Ray

17 September 2012 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

ESO

While this starry vista seems tran­quil, the events that shaped the Pen­cil Neb­ula were noth­ing but quiet. Stars are born and stars die and when they do, they cre­ate amaz­ing stel­lar land­scapes. A star, per­haps a mas­sive one, exploded to sculpt this beau­ti­ful starry scene that resem­bles an exotic bird head or a strangely shaped ray of light.

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