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Swimming in the Starry Seas
Credit: NASA/JPL–Caltech/UCLA
A glowing jellyfish floats in a starry sea. Instead of floating in water, what appears to be a translucent sea creature is actually a dying star surrounded by rings of glowing gas in this new image from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer.
Starry Sisters
Credit: NASA, ESA and AURA/Caltech
High in the winter sky, the Pleiades look like a tiny dipper. Those with sharp eyes can see seven stars in the open star cluster M45, or the Seven Sisters. Some people report seeing up to 14 stars under the best conditions. But most, including myself, can see six at best. In this image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, we see hundreds of stars.
The Crab
Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Hester and A. Loll (Arizona State University)
In the year 1054, Japanese, Chinese and Native American astronomers recorded a violent event. They saw a star that hadn’t been there before. It turned out to be a supernova that formed the Crab Nebula and it’s one of the earliest recorded astronomical events by humans.
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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…Read More
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