Posts Tagged ‘star formation’

A glance over a starry shoulder

Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hub­ble Her­itage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Col­lab­o­ra­tion

Some sort of cos­mic ani­mal glances over its starry shoul­der at a bub­ble of gas and stars in this image of NGC 4214 from the NASA/ESA Hub­ble Space Telescope.

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A magestic disk

Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hub­ble Her­itage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Col­lab­o­ra­tion; Acknowl­edg­ment: M. Crock­ett and S. Kavi­raj (Oxford Uni­ver­sity, UK), R. OCon­nell (Uni­ver­sity of Vir­ginia), B. Whit­more (STScI), and the WFC3 Sci­en­tific Over­sight Committee

Dark star lanes and bright yel­low stars make a majes­tic disk of stars in this image of NGC 2841 from NASA’s Hub­ble Space Telescope.

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Starry Presents

Credit: NASA, ESA, and F. Paresce (INAF-IASF, Bologna, Italy), R. O’Connell (Uni­ver­sity of Vir­ginia, Char­lottesville), and the Wide Field Cam­era 3 Sci­ence Over­sight Committee

In case you missed our amaz­ing Hub­ble image count­down to Christ­mas last year, here is a present to put under the Christ­mas Tree Neb­ula.

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Red Sharks

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/S. Stolovy (Spitzer Sci­ence Center/Caltech)

Fil­a­ments of star clouds toward the core of our Milky Way Galaxy weave pat­terns that resem­ble a shark or a dragon in this image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Tele­scope.

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Creator of Stars

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

A great open mouth appears to swal­low stars in this image from NASA’s Hub­ble Space Tele­scope. Instead, this vast cloud of glow­ing hydro­gen is a giant cre­ator of stars; a neb­ula where stars are born.

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The ancient peo­ples saw pic­tures in the sky. From those pat­terns in the heav­ens, ancient sto­ry­tellers cre­ated leg­ends about heroes, maid­ens, drag­ons, bears, cen­taurs, dogs and myth­i­cal crea­tures…
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