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Carnival of Space #272
It’s time for another roundup of the latest space news from various blogs around cyberspace; something we call Carnival of Space. Watch your step and look up as you board the latest ride through the carnival.
Perhaps the biggest, certainly the most exciting, news last week was the announcement from the European Southern Observatory of a scorching world orbiting uber-close to Alpha Centauri B. It’s also the lightest exoplanet discovered around a Sun-like star, reports Next Big Future. Nancy Atkinson at our host Universe Today detailed the new finding. Astroblogger offers reflections (and a celestia file) on the recent Earth-sized red-hot planet.
A Rainbow Tightly Spun
NASA, ESA, CXC, JPL, Caltech and STScI
Tightly spun filaments of color wind around the core of the Pinwheel galaxy in this combo image from four of NASA’s Great Observatories.
Butterfly of Combined Light
X-ray: NASA/CXC/U.Mich./S.Oey, IR: NASA/JPL, Optical: ESO/WFI/2.2-m
When NASA combines images from different telescopes they create amazing works of art and we learn a few things.
Snaking Stars
Credit: ESA/NASA Hubble
Stars swirl around the bright core of barred spiral NGC 1073 in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
Floppy Ears
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/E. Churchwell (University of Wisconsin)
An elephant with big floppy ears peers from in this cloud of cold gas and dust in an image of RCW 49 from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope.
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