Posts Tagged ‘Small Magellanic Cloud’
Small Galactic Caterpillar
07 January 2010
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Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/STScI
A long tail flows behind this galactic caterpillar. NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope takes a big view of the Small Magellanic Cloud.
Eyes Above
23 October 2009
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Credit: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team STScI/AURA)
A face looks down on a blue nebula in this image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
Into the Jaws
22 October 2009
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Credit: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration
Giant teeth seem to be closing in on the newly formed, blue stars in this image of N90. The star cluster NGC 602 lies at the heart of N90. Intense radiation from the new stars is eroding a cavity in this star-making cloud of gas and dust.
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