Posts Tagged ‘supernovae’

Pink Puffs

03 January 2012 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: ESA/Hub­ble & NASA

Pink puffs of cloud cre­ated by super­novae explo­sions dom­i­nate this image from NASA’s Hub­ble Space Telescope.

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Kangaroo Supernova

09 December 2011 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: X-ray (NASA/CXC/Penn State/S.Park & J.Lee); IR (NASA/JPL-Caltech)

A pur­ple kan­ga­roo lurks in a back­ground of stars in this image from NASA’s Chan­dra X-ray Obser­va­tory.

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Blowing Galactic Bubbles

18 October 2011 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: NASA/ESA

A dwarf irreg­u­lar galaxy blows galac­tic bub­bles in this image from the NASA/ESA Hub­ble Space Tele­scope.

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Starburst Special ‘K’

25 July 2011 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hub­ble Her­itage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Col­lab­o­ra­tion, and A. Evans (Uni­ver­sity of Vir­ginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University)

In the near dis­tance, 150 mil­lion light-years away, this pair of galax­ies form a ‘K’ shape with their merg­ing and interacting.

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Cluster of Jewels

23 August 2010 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: Euro­pean Space Agency & NASA

A clus­ter of jew­els, known as NGC 265, glows in the Small Mag­el­lanic Cloud.

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