Posts Tagged ‘stellar nursery’
Floppy Ears
01 February 2012
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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.
Starry Presents
21 December 2010
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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.
Red Sharks
16 December 2010
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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.
Dark Dragons
09 November 2010
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Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/M. Povich (Penn State Univ.)
A dark dragon appears to shoot out of a bright nebula in this image of M17 from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope.
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