Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon.

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Ganymede, Jupiters largest moon.This recently released enhanced-contrast image from the robot spacecraft Cassini Source: JUPITER Jupiters Great Red Spot - a hurricane-like storm system at least twice the diameter of planet Earth Between these spots are darker low-pressuresystems that rotate clockwise Counter-clockwise rotatinghigh-pressure white ovalsthat are similar to the Great Red Spot appear in the red band below the spot Ganymede, Jupiters largest moon
Ganymede, Jupiter\'s largest moon.
This recently released enhanced-contrast image from the robot spacecraft Cassini
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Ganymede, Jupiter's largest moon.
This recently released enhanced-contrast image from the robot spacecraft Cassini

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Saturday, April 01, 2006

Milky Way. Infrared Photo by Spitzer Space Telescope

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Milky Way is a dusty place. So dusty, in fact, that we cannot see the center of the galaxy in visible light. But when NASAs Spitzer Space Telescope set its infrared eyes on the galactic center, it captured this spectacular view Owl-like cosmic eyes The center of our galaxy Source: Quintuplet stars, a set of five massive stars A region known as Arched Filaments.
Milky Way. Infrared Photo by Spitzer Telescope.

Milky Way is a dusty place. So dusty, in fact, that we cannot see the center of the galaxy in visible light.
But when NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope set its infrared eyes on the galactic center, it captured this spectacular view.

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Monday, March 20, 2006

Cosmic eyes between Earth and the galactic center

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Cosmic eyes between Earthand the galactic center Source: A pair of star-forming regionsresembling owl-like cosmic eyes.This object is probably located in a spiral arm between Earth and the galactic center Dark lanes of dust
Cosmic eyes between Earth
and the galactic center. See also Milky Way in General
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Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Our Galaxy

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Our Galaxy Source: Milky way in General Our galaxy, which is the brightest spot in the entire mosaic. The brightness is a result of dust being heated up by a compact cluster of hot stars. The bright spot also marks the location of a supermassive black hole, around which a rotating ring of gas
Our Galaxy. See also Milky Way in General

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Sunday, February 19, 2006

Arched Filaments.

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Arched Filaments. Source: The bright star-forming regions to the right are some of the brightest in the infrared sky. Arched Filaments. These long filaments are about 10 light-years long and less than 1 light-year wide.
Arched Filaments.
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These long filaments are about 10 light-years long and less than 1 light-year wide. See also Milky Way in General

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Friday, February 10, 2006

"Quintuplet" stars

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Quintuplet stars Source: Extremely luminous Quintuplet stars, a set of five massive stars believed to have buried themselves in cocoons of dust. Pistol nebula, a bubble of ejected material from the central, massive Pistol star. The finger-like pillars are part of a structure known as Sickle. Pillars like these are sculpted out of dense dustclouds by radiation and winds from hot stars. The pillars in the Sickle were likely to have been formed by a cluster of hot stars lo
\"Quintuplet\" stars
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Extremely luminous "Quintuplet" stars, a set of five massive stars
believed to have buried themselves in cocoons of dust.

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