Tag: Gomez’s Hamburger
“H” is for Hamburger
by CritterKeeper on Jun.29, 2010, under Numbers/Letters
Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Would you like fries with that giant cosmic hamburger? Gomez’s Hamburger is a strange planetary nebula that resembles the upright bars of the letter H in this image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. It doesn’t take much imagination to add the bar across the middle to complete the shape of the letter. Astronomers thought the nebula looked like a hamburger. Actually, it’s a sun-like star nearing the end of its life. The central star, which we cannot see in this image, expelled large amounts of gas and dust and may one day develop a more familiar colorful, glowing planetary nebula.
Cosmic Burger
by CritterKeeper on Feb.24, 2010, under General
Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Would you like fries with that giant cosmic hamburger? Gomez’s Hamburger is a strange planetary nebula that looks like a hamburger but it’s actually a sun-like star nearing the end of its life. The central star, which we cannot see in this image, expelled large amounts of gas and dust and may one day develop a more familiar colorful, glowing planetary nebula.

Zoom in and out and pan around the images to find your own patterns in the stars. Be creative and think outside the box.