Posts Tagged ‘Wide Field Camera 3’
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.
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.
Sitting at the edge of the universe
Credit: NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth (UCO/Lick Observatory and the University of California, Santa Cruz), R. Bouwens (UCO/Lick Observatory and Leiden University), and the HUDF09 Team
Just imagine countless ancient galaxies sitting at the edge of the universe.
Star Puffer
Credit: NASA, NASA, ESA and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team
The Carina Nebula reminds me of a coral reef with all the rich colors and glowing scenery. We missed what looks to me like a puffer fish during our last look at the Carina Nebula when we found sea monsters, birds and cosmic caterpillars.
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