Readers of the blog know that I sometimes go slightly off-topic to share my geek love for all things space. I love this particular image in particular, The Cat's Eye Nebula: Three thousand light years away from Earth, this nebula is 10,000 times as bright as the sun and is the result of a star that lost its outer envelope around 1000 years ago. There are 11 rings of gas make up the formation, which is expanding at a constant rate of 10 milliarcseconds a year. In the Universe, even … [Read more...]

For the new readers of the blog, I sometimes go slightly off-topic to share my space geek love. The Hubble telescope is celebrating its 20th birthday this month. Last week, a photo was released of the Carina Nebula, the largest seen star-birth regions in the galaxy. Astronomers have nicknamed it "Mystic Mountain." The Universe Today blog shares some information about Carina Nebula: "'Mystic Mountain has clouds of gas and dust, that have not only baby stars, but also … [Read more...]