Posts Tagged ‘infrared’
Secrets in Carina’s Dust
09 February 2012
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Credit: ESO/T. Preibisch
Sea monsters, birds and mystic mountains hide in this detailed infrared image of the Carina Nebula from ESO’s Very Large Telescope.
Floppy Ears
01 February 2012
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Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/E. Churchwell (University of Wisconsin)
An elephant with big floppy ears peers from in this cloud of cold gas and dust in an image of RCW 49 from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope.
Striking Starry Eye
27 January 2012
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Credit: ESO
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trands of cold gas and dust stream from the center of this striking image of the Helix Nebula from the European Southern Observatory.Welcome
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…Read More
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