Posts Tagged ‘WFC3’
Glittering Sky
Credit: NASA & ESA
A glittering sky of lights greets us in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the globular cluster Omega Centauri. This image shows just a small part of the massive star cluster with 10 million suns. Globular star clusters are groups of millions of stars bound together by gravity. Omega Centauri is very old too. Stars in this cluster were among the first stars to form in the Milky Way Galaxy more than 10 billion years ago. By contrast, our Sun arrived on the scene only 4.6 billion years ago.
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.
Window Seat on Forever
Credit: NASA & ESA
This image will take you a while to explore and digest. Within this deep panorama from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, 12 billion years of cosmic history plays out with thousands of galaxies shown in various stages of development.
Glittering Sky
Credit: NASA & ESA
A glittering sky of lights greets us in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the globular cluster Omega Centauri. This image shows just a small part of the massive star cluster with 10 million suns. Globular star clusters are groups of millions of stars bound together by gravity. Omega Centauri is very old too. Stars in this cluster were among the first stars to form in the Milky Way Galaxy more than 10 billion years ago. By contrast, our Sun arrived on the scene only 4.6 billion years ago.
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
Here is a present to put under the Christmas Tree Nebula from yesterday. In this new image of the star-forming region R136 from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope WFC3, astronomers take a close look at this region of the 30 Doradus Nebula. The region is only a few million years old. R136 is 170,000 light-years from Earth in the Large Magellanic Cloud. 30 Doradus is the largest, most active star-making region astronomers know of.
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