Posts Tagged ‘Large Magellanic Cloud’

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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Sweeping Wings in a Cloud

23 August 2012 Written by CritterKeeper 1 Comment

ESA/Hub­ble, NASA and D. A Goulier­mis. Acknowl­edge­ment: Flickr user Eedresha Sturdivant

The sweep­ing wings of a dragon or bat shine with the light of dozens of bright stars in this image from the NASA/ESA Hub­ble Space Telescope.

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Faint Webs of the Tarantula Nebula

20 August 2012 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

NASA/ESA Hub­ble

The faint body of a spi­der hides in a web of dark dust in this image of the Taran­tula Neb­ula from NASA’s Hub­ble Space Telescope.

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Blown Away

10 May 2012 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

NASA, ESA, F. Paresce (INAF-IASF, Bologna, Italy), R. O’Connell (Uni­ver­sity of Vir­ginia, Char­lottesville), and the Wide Field Cam­era 3 Sci­ence Over­sight Committee

Mas­sive stars carve out deep cav­i­ties, blow­ing away gas and dust in the tur­bu­lent scene in the Large Mag­el­lanic Cloud in this infrared image from the NASA/ESA Hub­ble Space Tele­scope.

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Ripples in an Explosion of Light

02 May 2012 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech/STScI

Waves of gas and dust rip­ple through this image of the Large Mag­el­lanic Cloud from the Her­schel and Spitzer space telescopes.

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