Posts Tagged ‘Sagittarius’
A Swan’s Starry Lake
Credit: ESO/INAF-VST/OmegaCAM. Acknowledgement: OmegaCen/Astro-WISE/Kapteyn Institute
A swan glides in a glowing lake in this image of the Swan Nebula from the European Southern Observatory’s VST telescope.
Merging Y
NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University)
Galaxy interactions are always impressive. ESO 593–8 looks like the letter “Y,” swooping eagle or a feather. Explore the NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of these merging galaxies. Do you see any patterns? What stories can you tell?
“H” is for Hamburger
Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Would you like fries with that giant cosmic hamburger? Gomez’s Hamburger is a strange planetary nebula that resembles the upright bars of the letter H in this image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. It doesn’t take much imagination to add the bar across the middle to complete the shape of the letter. Astronomers thought the nebula looked like a hamburger. Actually, it’s a sun-like star nearing the end of its life. The central star, which we cannot see in this image, expelled large amounts of gas and dust and may one day develop a more familiar colorful, glowing planetary nebula.
Rich Tapestries
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE Team
Rich colors spill across a tapestry of dust and gas in this image of the Rho Ophiuchi star cloud from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE.
Star Birds
Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI)
A pair of star birds take flight in this image of the Trifid Nebula from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
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