Zeta Ophiuchi
Zeta Ophiuchi A giant star zooming through space at 54,000 miles per hour creates a bowshock, ripples that are the result of billowing stellar winds colliding with the dust ahead of it. About 370...
View ArticleAugust 26, 2013
Newborn Stars Shoot Cosmic Jets Dozens of newborn stars sprouting jets from their dusty cocoons have been spotted in images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. In this view showing a portion of sky...
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Rim fire by night
The blaze raging its way through a national forest in the Yosemite National Park area, known as the Rim fire, can be seen with frightening clarity at the center of this image taken by NASA's Suomi NPP...
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This image was taken of the Rim fire in the Yosemite area by NASA's Suomi NPP satellite on August 25. Image: NASA/NOAA
View ArticleAugust 27, 2013
The Gorgeous Galaxy Next Door Hot stars burn brightly in this image from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer, showing the ultraviolet side of a familiar face. At approximately 2.5 million light-years...
View ArticleAugust 28, 2013
Spectacular Saturn Aurora The dancing light of the auroras on Saturn behaves differently from how scientists had thought possible. By choreographing the instruments aboard the Earth-orbiting Hubble...
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A Field of Ancient, Dead Stars In 2002, the Hubble Space Telescope uncovered a field of ancient, burned-out stars in our Milky Way Galaxy. These extremely old, dim stars can provide a completely...
View ArticleAugust 30, 2013
Space Sperm or Cosmic Caterpillar? This light-year-long knot of interstellar gas and dust resembles a caterpillar on its way to a feast. But the meat of the story is not only what this cosmic...
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Frosted Martian Impact Crater This image from the Mars HiRISE mission was planned to search for gully activity in the Northern Hemisphere. Changing gullies have so far been documented only in the...
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Cat's Eye Nebula Stares You Down In this detailed view from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, the Cat's Eye Nebula looks like the penetrating eye of the disembodied sorcerer Sauron from the film...
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Sparkling, Psychedelic Stellar Nursery NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a panoramic portrait of a vast, sculpted landscape of gas and dust where thousands of stars are being born. This fertile...
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Odd Spiral Galaxy Lying over 110 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Antlia (The Air Pump) is the spiral galaxy IC 2560, shown here in an image from NASA/ESA Hubble Space...
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Bipolar Nebula Collection This mosaic shows a selection of stunning images of bipolar planetary nebulae taken by Hubble. A new study using Hubble observations has found that bipolar planetary nebulae...
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A Slice of Europa This view of Jupiter's moon Europa features several regional-resolution mosaics overlaid on a lower resolution global view for context. The regional views were obtained during several...
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Black Holes Bagged NASA's black-hole-hunter spacecraft, the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, has "bagged" its first 10 supermassive black holes. The mission, which has a mast the...
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