Posts Tagged ‘NASA’

Snaking Stars

03 February 2012 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: ESA/NASA Hub­ble

Stars swirl around the bright core of barred spi­ral NGC 1073 in this image from the NASA/ESA Hub­ble Space Telescope.

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Floppy Ears

01 February 2012 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

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.

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The stars in watercolor

30 January 2012 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: X-ray (NASA/CXC/CfA/F.Massaro, et al.); Opti­cal (NASA/STScI/C.P.O’Dea); Radio (NSF/VLA/CfA/F.Massaro, et al.)

Unusual and intrigu­ing shapes float out of this com­bined starry image from NASA’s Chan­dra X-ray Obser­va­tory and the Hub­ble Space Tele­scope.

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Diffuse Butterfly

26 January 2012 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: ESA/Hub­ble & NASA

A faint and dif­fuse but­ter­fly shape sur­rounds this image of an ellip­ti­cal galaxy from the NASA/ESA Hub­ble Space Tele­scope.

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Super S

24 January 2012 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: ESA/Hub­ble & NASA

A super “S” traces through sprawl­ing arms of spi­ral galaxy M100 in this image from the NASA/ESA Hub­ble Space Telescope.

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