Posts Tagged ‘Orion Nebula’

The fingerprint of a new star

12 October 2011 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: NASA, ESA, and P. Har­ti­gan (Rice University)

Ener­getic blasts of glow­ing gas are the fin­ger­prints of a new star in this image from the NASA/ESA Hub­ble Space Telescope.

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Newborn Stars and Scorpions

02 September 2011 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: NASA, ESA, and P. Har­ti­gan (Rice University)

This fiery star birth announce­ment resem­bles a scor­pion in this image from the NASA/ESA Hub­ble Space Telescope.

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Star Storm

29 March 2011 Written by CritterKeeper 1 Comment

Credit: C.R. O’Dell (Rice Uni­ver­sity), and ESA/Hub­ble & NASA

A storm of star­birth brews inside the Orion Neb­ula in this image from the NASA/ESA Hub­ble Space Telescope.

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Pink Tadpole

15 November 2010 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: ESA/Hub­ble & NASA

Zoom deep into the vast stel­lar nurs­ery of the Orion Neb­ula and a pink tad­pole appears to swim in a misty sea in this image from NASA’s Hub­ble Space Tele­scope.

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Orion Thunderbird

08 April 2010 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/J. Stauf­fer (SSC/Caltech)

A thun­der­bird lurks in the dreamy clouds of the Great Neb­ula in Orion. Also a colony of hot, young stars shines their way through the envelop­ing folds of dust and gas.

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