Posts Tagged ‘Hubble Space Telescope’

Kicking in the Void

NASA, ESA, CFHT, CXO, M.J. Jee (Uni­ver­sity of Cal­i­for­nia, Davis), and A. Mah­davi (San Fran­cisco State University)

A translu­cent leg kicks out at an orange ball in this com­bined image of merg­ing galaxy clus­ter Abell 520 from NASA’s Hub­ble Space Tele­scope, Chan­dra X-ray Obser­va­tory and the Canada-France Hawaii Telescope.

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Floating in Hydra

Credit: NASA/ESA Hubble

An angelfish floats in the con­stel­la­tion of Hydra in this image of spi­ral galaxy NGC 4980 from the NASA/ESA Hub­ble Space Tele­scope.

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Landing a UFO

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA

The NASA/ESA Hub­ble Space Tele­scope lands a UFO in this near edge-on extra­galac­ti­cal image of spi­ral galaxy NGC 2683.

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Faces in a Faint Cloud

Credit: ESA/NASA Hub­ble
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Carnival of Space #241

Wel­come back to episode #241 of the Car­ni­val of Space; the source for the lat­est space news from var­i­ous blogs from the past week. Step right up for the lat­est ride around the carnival.

Aster­oids: they’re big, scary and can kill mil­lions. Nuclear weapons: they’re big, scary and can kill mil­lions. Ian O’Neill of Dis­cov­ery News asks wouldn’t it make sense to unite the two?

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The ancient peo­ples saw pic­tures in the sky. From those pat­terns in the heav­ens, ancient sto­ry­tellers cre­ated leg­ends about heroes, maid­ens, drag­ons, bears, cen­taurs, dogs and myth­i­cal crea­tures…
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