Posts Tagged ‘Puppis’

Leaping Fish

16 August 2010 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: NASA, ESA and Orsola De Marco (Mac­quarie University)

Strange shapes, leap­ing fish and pin­cers can be found in the col­or­ful sea of gas and dust amid bright blue stars in the star-forming region of NGC 2467.

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Glowing Worm

09 March 2010 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

J. Morse/STScI, and NASA

A three tril­lion mile-long jet called HH-47 resem­bles a glow­ing worm in this NASA Hub­ble Space Tele­scope image. Jets are com­mon around newly formed stars. They are the exhaust prod­uct of the chaotic for­ma­tion of the star.

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Rotten Eggs

19 October 2009 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: ESA & Valentin Bujarra­bal (Obser­va­to­rio Astro­nom­ico Nacional, Spain)

Stars like our Sun will die one day when they have used up all of their hydro­gen and helium fuel for nuclear fusion. For our Sun, that day is four bil­lion years in the future but all around the galaxy, astronomers find other stars mov­ing through that stage of star life. The Rot­ten Egg Neb­ula, shown in this NASA/ESA Hub­ble Space Tele­scope image, is a plan­e­tary neb­ula in the making.

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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…
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