Herschel yields new galaxy image Posted: 5 months ago by AutumnLotus
The European Space Agency (Esa) has released a stunning image of the spiral galaxy M51, otherwise known as the Whirlpool Galaxy.
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ESO's VLT Captures Stunning Image of Spiral Galaxy Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
During his visit to ESO's Very Large Telescope at Paranal, the European Commissioner for Science and Research, Janez Potocnik, participated in an observing sequence and took images of a beautiful spiral galaxy.
The visit took place on 27 October and the Commissioner observed with one of the FORS instruments on Antu, the first 8.2-m Unit Telescope of the VLT.
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Hubble Photographs Grand Design Spiral Galaxy M81 Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
The sharpest image ever taken of the large grand design spiral galaxy Messier 81 is being released. The image, constructed from a series of images taken with NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, is among the largest ever released. Messier 81 is one of the brightest galaxies that can be seen from the Earth.
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Galaxy portrait reveals a blaze of newborn stars Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
Newborn stars shine like celestial sparklers in a new portrait of the nearby Triangulum Galaxy – the most detailed ultraviolet image of a galaxy ever taken. Astronomers will use the image, taken by NASA's Swift telescope, to create an "age map" of the galaxy's components to understand how galaxies evolve over time.
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Flies In A Spider's Web: Galaxy Caught In The Making Posted: 3 years ago by 2manyusernames
The Hubble Space Telescope has found a large galaxy 10.6 billion light-years away from Earth that is stuffing itself with smaller galaxies caught like flies in a web of gravity. The galaxy is so far away that astronomers are seeing it as it looked in the early formative years of the Universe, only 2 billion years after the Big Bang.
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Holiday wishes from the Hubble Space Telescope Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
Messier 74, also called NGC 628, is a stunning example of a 'grand-design' spiral galaxy that is viewed by Earth observers nearly face-on. Its perfectly symmetrical spiral arms emanate from the central nucleus and are dotted with clusters of young blue stars.
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Rivers of Gas Flow Around Stars in New Space Image Posted: 12 months ago by AutumnLotus
A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a turbulent star-forming region, where rivers of gas and stellar winds are eroding thickets of dusty material.
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Galaxy 'missing link' uncovered Posted: 12 months ago by AutumnLotus
Astronomers have identified a type of galaxy that represents a "missing link" in our understanding of the Universe. Spiral and elliptical galaxies used to be known exclusively as "blue" and "red", respectively. But two studies show that one in five galaxies is a red spiral.
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Astronomers map 'blue whale' of space Posted: 4 months ago by AutumnLotus
Australian astronomers have made the most detailed map yet of a radio galaxy, which could lead to a better understanding of these strange phenomena.
The map of Centaurus A, a galaxy in the Centaurus constellation, covers a segment of sky 200 times the area of the full moon.
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Gargantuan galaxy NGC 1132 – a cosmic fossil? Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a new image of the galaxy NGC 1132 which is, most likely, a cosmic fossil – the aftermath of an enormous multi-galactic pile-up, where the carnage of collision after collision has built up a brilliant but fuzzy giant elliptical galaxy far outshining typical galaxies.
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NASA captures image of birth of stars Posted: 3 years ago by AutumnLotus
A dazzlingly detailed image released by NASA scientists shows the chaotic conditions in which stars are born and die - in this case in a huge nebula in another neighbourhood of our Milky Way galaxy.
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Spitzer Captures Stellar Coming of Age in Our Galaxy Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
More than 800,000 snapshots from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have been stitched together to create a new "coming of age" portrait of stars in our inner Milky Way galaxy. The image depicts an area of sky 120 degrees wide by two degrees tall. High-res zoomable image.
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The Thousand-Ruby Galaxy Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
ESO's Wide Field Imager has captured the intricate swirls of the spiral galaxy Messier 83, a smaller look-alike of our own Milky Way. Shining with the light of billions of stars and the ruby red glow of hydrogen gas, it is a beautiful example of a barred spiral galaxy, whose shape has led to it being nicknamed the Southern Pinwheel.
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Stellar Birth in the Galactic Wilderness Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
A new image from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer shows baby stars sprouting in the backwoods of a galaxy -- a relatively desolate region of space more than 100,000 light-years from the galaxy's bustling center.
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Herschel's daring test: A glimpse of things to come Posted: 5 months ago by kakana
Herschel opened its 'eyes' on 14 June and the Photoconductor Array Camera and Spectrometer obtained images of M51, 'the whirlpool galaxy' for a first test observation. Scientists obtained images in three colours from the observation, which clearly demonstrate the superiority of Herschel, the largest infrared space telescope ever flown.
*Update to Autumn's post*
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Galaxy's spiral arms point in opposite directions Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
Astronomers are puzzling over a spiral galaxy whose spiral arms are wrapped in opposing directions. The unusual structure may be a lingering scar from a tussle with a smaller galaxy that was ultimately swallowed.
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'Olympian Galaxy' Near Andromeda Gives Clues To How Galaxies Form Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
A newly discovered dwarf galaxy in the Local Group has been found to have formed in a region of space far from our own and is falling into our system for the first time in its history.
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Exploding star in NGC 2397 Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
The latest image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals a sharp view of the spiral galaxy NGC 2397. This image also shows a rare Hubble view of the early stages of a supernova - SN 2006bc, discovered in March 2006.
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New Galaxy Images Released for Hubble's 18th Birthday Posted: 2 years ago by JDRucker
NASA has released 59 new high-resolution images of galaxies colliding across the universe to mark the Hubble Space Telescope's 18th birthday.
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Why Is The Hercules Dwarf Galaxy So Flat? Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
Through some of the very first scientific observations with the brand-new Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) in Arizona, astronomers has found that a recently discovered tiny companion galaxy to our Milky Way, named the Hercules Dwarf Galaxy, has truly exceptional properties: while basically all of its known peers in the realm of these tiny dwarf galaxies are rather round, this galaxy at a distance of 430,000 Light Years appears highly flattened, either the shape of a disk or of a cigar.
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Galaxy sports vast comet-like tail Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
Orphaned stars are being born in a vast tail of material stretching behind a faraway galaxy. The finding is evidence that orphaned stars — those not orbiting the center of a galaxy in normal fashion — are much more common than thought.
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