Posts Tagged ‘Sagittarius’
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.
Dark Dragons
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/M. Povich (Penn State Univ.)
A dark dragon appears to shoot out of a bright nebula in this image of M17 from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope.
Glowing Silkworm
Sun Kwok and Kate Su (University of Calgary), Bruce Hrivnak (Valparaiso University), and NASA
Big things are just beginning for this tiny image of the Silkworm Nebula. Like a butterfly breaking out of its cocoon, the Silkworm Nebula is just emerging from a wrapping of gas and dust. Astronomers call this a proto-planetary nebulae; the central star has just begun the transition from red giant to a planetary nebula.
Cosmic Burger
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 looks like a hamburger but it’s actually 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.
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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…Read More
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