Posts Tagged ‘spiral galaxy’
Whale of a Galaxy
29 November 2011
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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.
Holy Galacticus
04 November 2011
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Credit: ESO/Oleg Maliy
Something about this image of the spiral galaxy Messier 96 from the European Southern Observatory has me awestruck.
Infrared Sunflowers
22 September 2011
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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.
Spiral Z
12 August 2011
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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.
Spectacular Spiral “S”
04 August 2011
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Credit: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Star clouds sweep around a spectacular spiral “S” in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the heart of M51, the Whirlpool Galaxy.
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