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Jupiter’s Ghost

10 March 2010 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Bruce Bal­ick and Jason Alexan­der (Uni­ver­sity of Wash­ing­ton), Arsen Hajian (U.S. Naval Obser­va­tory), Yer­vant Terz­ian (Cor­nell Uni­ver­sity ), , Mario Perinotto (Uni­ver­sity of Flo­rence), Patrizio Patri­archi (Arcetri Obser­va­tory) and NASA/ESA

For unknown, curi­ous rea­sons, early observers of NGC 3242 thought it resem­bled the planet Jupiter, giv­ing it the name the Ghost of Jupiter. Oth­ers called it the Eye Neb­ula. Explore this image of the plan­e­tary neb­ula. NASA’s Hub­ble Space Tele­scope shows great detail of the cen­tral ring and the shoot­ing red gas of bipo­lar flow.

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