Posts Tagged ‘Serpens’
Star Gull
NASA, J. English (U. Manitoba), S. Hunsberger, S. Zonak, J. Charlton, S. Gallagher (PSU), and L. Frattare (STScI)
Distorted galaxies make bent wings in this image of Seyfert’s Sextet. Six objects appear in this image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope but only four galaxies are interacting. The face-on spiral in the center of the image is a background galaxy five times farther away than the others.
Eye in an Eye
Credit: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Hot, blue stars form a halo around the yellow center of a galaxy known as Hoag’s Object. From Earth, we view this odd galaxy face-on in this image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
The Eagle
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, J. Hester and P. Scowen (Arizona State University)
This eagle is a nursery for new stars. In this dramatic image from the Hubble Space Telescope taken in 1995, the baby stars are being born from eggs, small pockets of gas and dust. These columns of dust, like stalagmites in a cave are light years long. The Eagle Nebula, or M-16, is about 7,000 light years from Earth in the constellation Serpens, the Serpent.
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