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An Abrasive Collision Gives One Galaxy a “Black Eye”
A collision of two galaxies has left a merged star system with an unusual appearance as well as bizarre internal motions. Messier 64 (M64) has a spectacular dark band of absorbing dust in front of the galaxy's bright nucleus, giving rise to its nicknames of the "Black Eye" or "Evil Eye" galaxy. |
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Firestorm of Star Birth Seen in a Local Galaxy
This festively colorful nebula, called NGC 604, is one of the largest known seething cauldrons of star birth seen in a nearby galaxy. NGC 604 is similar to familiar star-birth regions in our Milky Way galaxy, such as the Orion Nebula, but it is vastly larger in extent and contains many more recently formed stars. This monstrous star-birth region contains more than 200 brilliant blue stars within a cloud of glowing gases some 1,300 light-years across, nearly 100 times the size of the Orion Nebula.
Cantiknya... |
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Ambik ko yang nih hah...
Megastar-Birth Cluster is Biggest, Brightest, and Hottest Ever Seen
A mysterious arc of light found behind a distant cluster of galaxies has turned out to be the biggest, brightest, and hottest star-forming region ever seen in space. The so-called Lynx arc is 1 million times brighter than the well-known Orion Nebula, a nearby prototypical star-birth region visible with small telescopes. The newly identified super-cluster contains a million blue-white stars that are twice as hot as similar stars in our Milky Way galaxy. |
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Rogue Orphan Gas Giants
Researchers have spotted what they believe to be 13 orphan planets adrift in the Orion nebula. The rogue gas giants seem to have formed without parental stars, adding credence to theories that larger numbers of independent planets may be drifting through the galaxy than previously thought. The nebula's features are highlighted by a false-color imaging process.
Cantik sangat2... |
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I like the Cone Nebula. They said it look like a nightmarish beast, but if you look carefully, it look like someone was is praying.  |
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Dancing Before the Gates of Heaven
Hubble caught a glimpse of a beautiful galactic veil dance taking place some 1,400 light-years from Earth. The unseen gaseous choreographers are two newborn stars in a tight huddle, while a third star ventures out on its own.
Keciknya image..{:2_71:} |
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Cone nebula.. |
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Yang ni ke? |
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Supernova Time Bomb
The Southern Hemisphere's most brilliant star, the monstrous and doomed variable Eta Carinae, is thought to be on the brink of becoming a supernova. Shrouded in ejected stellar matter, it is ticking away like a time bomb, poised to explode -- But when?
Betoi ke? |
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Eagle's Nest
In 1995, Hubble snapped this image of pillar-like structures in the Eagle nebula. They are columns of cool hydrogen gas and dust that are thought to be stellar nurseries.
I love this the most... |
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Where Stars Are Born
NASA scientists say this image highlights a gas cloud that may be a birthplace for new stars. It is a picture of NGC 1999, a brilliant gas nebula located in the constellation Orion.
Betul ke ni? |
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Pie in the Sky
In its first glimpse of the heavens following a successful servicing mission in December 1999, Hubble captured a majestic view of the "Eskimo" Nebula, NGC 2392. |
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Cosmic Crucible
NGC 4214 tells a story of the evolution of dust and gas into stars and clusters. The galaxy is dense with faint stars, but dominated by clouds of glowing gas around bright stellar clusters. It lies about 13 million light-years from Earth. A light-year, or the distance light travels in a year, is 6 trillion miles (9.7 trillion kilometers).
Cantik gak.. |
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800 Light-Years from Home
What is it? Previously unseen details of a mysterious, complex structure within the Carina Nebula (NGC 3372) are revealed by this image taken by Hubble. |
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The Best and the Brightest
Near, and not long ago, in a region of the Great nebula in Orion, the gassy shards of star formation that took place around 300,000 years ago can be seen. The nebula is a giant gas cloud illuminated by the brightest of the young hot stars at the top of the picture. Many of the fainter young stars are surrounded by disks of dust and gas that are slightly more than twice the diameter of the solar system.
Credit: NASA
Unique... |
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Hubble Bubble; No Toil, Trouble
The central star of the Bubble Nebula, or NGC 7635, is 40 times more massive than the sun and is responsible for a stellar wind moving at 4 million m.p.h. (6.4 million kilometers per hour), propelling particles off the surface of the star. The "bubble" surface is the outermost edge of the particle wave. Credit: NASA
Hmmmmm... |
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Pretty in Pink
One of the brightest stars in our galaxy appears as the luminous white dot in the center of this image. The star is hidden at the center of the Milky Way.
Beautiful.. |
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Twisted Pair
This pair of half-light-year long interstellar "twisters" -- eerie funnels and twisted-rope structures -- were discovered in the heart of the Lagoon nebula, about 5,000 light-years from Earth.
Ya Allah...Cantiknye... |
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Category: Belia & Informasi
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Post time 14-10-2009 01:14 PM
