Posts Tagged ‘spiral galaxy’

Super S

24 January 2012 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: ESA/Hub­ble & NASA

A super “S” traces through sprawl­ing arms of spi­ral galaxy M100 in this image from the NASA/ESA Hub­ble Space Telescope.

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Whale of a Galaxy

29 November 2011 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: ESA and NASA

Stars burst into life in the belly of the Whale Galaxy in this image from the NASA/ESA Hub­ble Space Tele­scope.

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Holy Galacticus

04 November 2011 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: ESO/Oleg Maliy

Some­thing about this image of the spi­ral galaxy Messier 96 from the Euro­pean South­ern Obser­va­tory has me awestruck.

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Infrared Sunflowers

22 September 2011 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SINGS Team

Glow­ing dust lanes of this spi­ral galaxy resem­ble a sun­flower in an image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Tele­scope.

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Spiral Z

12 August 2011 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: NASA and The Hub­ble Her­itage Team (STScI/AURA)

Glow­ing gas and starlight with dark bands of inter­stel­lar dust cre­ate a cos­mic let­ter Z in this image from NASA’s Hub­ble Space Tele­scope. NGC 1300 is con­sid­ered the typ­i­cal barred spi­ral galaxy.

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