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That one too. It is amazing.
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Here is an image of a great cold cloud of gas and dust where stars are forming. It was taken the Herschel Space Observatory that observed in the infrared. We can't see in infrared, so the image is color-coded, with blue showing the coldest part and red slightly warmer. The blue filament is catalogued as G82.65-2.00 and contains 800 times as much mass as the Sun. The dust in the filament has a temperature of –259ºC. At this low temperature, if the filament contains enough mass it is likely that this section will collapse into stars. Credit & copyright: ESA/Herschel/SPIRE/M. Juvela (U. Helsinki, Finland)
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A planetary nebula is created by a dying sunlike star sloughing off its outer layers. They tend to be rounded. But not the Ant Nebula! This is Mz3 and astronomers don't know why it's doubled. Image Credit: R. Sahai (JPL) et al., Hubble Heritage Team, ESA, NASA
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May 15th was the birth anniversary of astronomer Williamina Fleming (1857-1911). She discovered the Horsehead Nebula. But she didn't see it in the infrared light of the Hubble photo. Infrared can penetrate the obscuring dust to give a quite ethereal structure with delicate folds of gas. Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI)
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This is the Jellyfish Nebula (IC443). Eta Geminorum is the bright star at the bottom. The jellyfish tentacles dangle below and left of center. The nebula is a supernova remnant, the debris from the explosion that signaled the death of a massive star tens of thousands of years ago. Within the nebula is a neutron star which is the collapsed core of the dead star. Image credit: Eric Coles
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Nancy, you took the words right out of my mouth. Space photos are all amazing and awesome.
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Fabulous image of the R136 star cluster which is at the heart of the Tarantula Nebula. 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
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