Posts Tagged ‘Herschel’

Butterflies along a ridge of light

11 July 2012 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

ESA/PACS & SPIRE Con­sor­tia, T. Hill, F. Motte, Lab­o­ra­toire AIM Paris-Saclay, CEA/IRFU – CNRS/INSU – Uni. Paris Diderot, HOBYS Key Pro­gramme Consortium

A blue and yel­low but­ter­fly flits along a ridge of starlight in an image of the Vela C region by ESA’s Her­schel space observatory

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A Feathered Meathook

04 May 2011 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: NASA/ESA

Asym­met­ric and warped, the Meathook Galaxy spins lop­sided in this image from the NASA/ESA Hub­ble Space Tele­scope.

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