Cat’s Eye Nebula

November 22, 2011 Read Comments
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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...]

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Supernova Bubble

June 30, 2011 Read Comments
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As some of you already know, I kinda have a geek love for space and astromony, so sometimes I veer off-topic on the blog. Yesterday during one of my Hubble procrastination browsing stints, I found a picture that fits in quite nicely with my earlier blog post this week. Bubbles anyone? :-) Actually this is quite interesting: SNR 0509 is the result of gas shocked by an expanding blast wave from a supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a small galaxy about 160,000 light-years from … [Read more...]

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Galaxies of Roses

April 28, 2011 Read Comments
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Long-time readers of the blog know that I sometimes go slightly off-topic to share my geek love for all things space. This month, Hubble celebrates its 21st anniversary of deploying into space and released this gorgeous picture of two intersecting galaxies called Arp273. "Arp 273 lies in the constellation Andromeda and is roughly 300 million light-years away from Earth. The image shows a tenuous tidal bridge of material between the two galaxies that are separated from each other by tens … [Read more...]

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When Galaxies Collide

January 27, 2011 Read Comments
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For new subscribers of the blog, I sometimes go slightly off-topic to share my geek love for all things space. The Antennae Galaxies are currently colliding to form one giant galaxy. The orange regions represent the original cores of both galaxies and the old stars and filaments of dust represent the brown regions. The collision first started approximately a hundred million years ago and during the course of this merge, billions of stars will be born, represented in the bright blue … [Read more...]

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