User contributions for Anzibanonzi

11 July 2007

• 20:4120:41, 11 July 2007 diff hist +1,847‎ N File:Sig07-010.jpg ‎ ==Summary= Supernovae are the explosive deaths of the universe's most massive stars. In death, these volatile creatures blast tons of energetic waves into the cosmos, destroying much of the dust surrounding them. This false-color composite from NASA's Sp
• 20:3920:39, 11 July 2007 diff hist +2,127‎ N File:Sig07-009.jpg ‎ ==Summary== This beautiful galaxy is tilted at an oblique angle on to our line of sight, giving a "birds-eye view" of the spiral structure. The galaxy is similar to our Milky Way, but our favorable view provides a better picture of the typical architectur
• 20:3620:36, 11 July 2007 diff hist +1,856‎ N File:Sig07-006.jpg ‎ ==Summary== This image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows infant stars "hatching" in the head of the hunter constellation, Orion. Astronomers suspect that shockwaves from a supernova explosion in Orion's head, nearly three million years ago, may ha
• 20:3520:35, 11 July 2007 diff hist +2,134‎ N File:Sig07-007.jpg ‎ ==Summary== This image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows infant stars "hatching" in the head of the hunter constellation, Orion. Astronomers suspect that shockwaves from a supernova explosion in Orion's head, nearly three million years ago, may ha
• 20:3220:32, 11 July 2007 diff hist +1,613‎ N File:Ssc2007-08a medium.jpg ‎ ==Summary== This infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Rosette nebula, a pretty star-forming region more than 5,000 light-years away in the constellation Monoceros. In optical light, the nebula looks like a rosebud, or the "rosette"
• 20:3020:30, 11 July 2007 diff hist +2,239‎ N File:Ssc2007-08b.jpg ‎ ==Summary== This infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Rosette nebula, a pretty star-forming region more than 5,000 light-years away in the constellation Monoceros. In optical light, the nebula looks like a rosebud, or the "rosette"
• 20:2820:28, 11 July 2007 diff hist +3,323‎ N File:Sig07-005.jpg ‎ ==Summary== Two rambunctious young stars are destroying their natal dust cloud with powerful jets of radiation, in an infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The stars are located approximately 600 light-years away in a cosmic cloud called BHR
• 20:2520:25, 11 July 2007 diff hist +3,111‎ N File:Ssc2007-07b.jpg ‎ ==Summary== The Seven Sisters, also known as the Pleiades star cluster, seem to float on a bed of feathers in a new infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Clouds of dust sweep around the stars, swaddling them in a cushiony veil. The Pleiades
• 20:2220:22, 11 July 2007 diff hist +1,079‎ N File:Sig07-004.jpg ‎ =Summary= This infrared image was taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and shows a part of the galaxy cluster Abell 2667. The "Comet Galaxy" is the bright red object seen to the left of the cluster center. Also seen in the image is a rare giant infrare
• 20:2020:20, 11 July 2007 diff hist +2,665‎ N File:Ssc2007-04a medium.jpg ‎ ==Summary== This infrared data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope -- called a spectrum -- tells astronomers that a distant gas planet, a so-called "hot Jupiter" called HD 209458b, might be smothered with high clouds. It is one of the first spectra of an
• 20:1720:17, 11 July 2007 diff hist +2,788‎ N File:Ssc2007-04c.jpg ‎ ==Summary== This infrared data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope -- called a spectrum -- tells astronomers that a distant gas planet, a so-called "hot Jupiter" called HD 189733b, might be smothered with high clouds. It is one of the first spectra of an
• 20:0820:08, 11 July 2007 diff hist +1,960‎ N File:Ssc2007-01c.jpg ‎ ==Summary== This set of images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Eagle nebula in different hues of infrared light. Each view tells a different tale. The left picture shows lots of stars and dusty structures with clarity. Dusty molecules found
• 20:0620:06, 11 July 2007 diff hist +1,724‎ N File:Ssc2007-01d.jpg ‎ ==Summary== This image composite highlights the pillars of the Eagle nebula, as seen in infrared light by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope (bottom) and visible light by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (top insets). The top right inset focuses on the three fa
• 20:0520:05, 11 July 2007 diff hist +1,412‎ N File:Ssc2006-22a.jpg ‎ ==Summary== The right panel is an image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope of stars and galaxies in the Ursa Major constellation. This infrared image covers a region of space so large that light would take up to 100 million years to travel across it. The
• 20:0420:04, 11 July 2007 diff hist +2,683‎ N File:Ssc2006-22b.jpg ‎ ==Summary== This artist's timeline chronicles the history of the universe, from its explosive beginning to its mature, present-day state. Our universe began in a tremendous explosion known as the Big Bang about 13.7 billion years ago (left side of strip)
• 20:0120:01, 11 July 2007 diff hist +1,911‎ N File:Sig06-030.jpg ‎ ==Summary== This is a composite image of N49, the brightest supernova remnant in optical light in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The Chandra X-ray image (blue) shows million-degree gas in the center. Much cooler gas at the outer parts of the remnant is seen
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• 19:5719:57, 11 July 2007 diff hist +3,219‎ N File:Ssc2006-20a.jpg ‎ ==Summary== This infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows what astronomers are referring to as a "snake" (upper left) and its surrounding stormy environment. The sinuous object is actually the core of a thick, sooty cloud large enough to s
• 19:5419:54, 11 July 2007 diff hist +1,564‎ N File:Ssc2006-19a.jpg ‎ ==Summary== This image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the scattered remains of an exploded star named Cassiopeia A. Spitzer's infrared detectors "picked" through these remains and found that much of the star's original layering had been preserv
• 19:5319:53, 11 July 2007 diff hist +1,774‎ N File:Sig06-027.jpg ‎ ==Summary== Baby stars are forming near the eastern rim of the cosmic cloud Perseus, in this infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The baby stars are approximately three million years old and are shown as reddish-pink dots to the right of
• 19:5119:51, 11 July 2007 diff hist +2,245‎ N File:Sig06-028.jpg ‎ ==Summary== According to the folklore of the Celts and other ancient cultures, Halloween marked the midpoint between the autumnal equinox and the winter solstice on the astronomical calendar, a spooky night when spirits of the dead spread havoc upon their
• 19:4919:49, 11 July 2007 diff hist +1,667‎ N File:Sig06-026.jpg ‎ ==Summary== Infant stars are glowing gloriously in this infrared image of the Serpens star-forming region, captured by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The reddish-pink dots are baby stars deeply embedded in the cosmic cloud of gas and dust that collapse
• 19:4519:45, 11 July 2007 diff hist +2,085‎ N File:Sig06-023.jpg ‎ ==Summary== The potential planet-forming disk (or "protoplanetary disk") of a sun-like star is being violently ripped away by the powerful winds of a nearby hot O-type star in this image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. At up to 100 times the mass of
• 19:4319:43, 11 July 2007 diff hist +2,517‎ N File:Sig06-024.jpg ‎ ==Summary== The many "personalities" of our great galactic neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, are exposed in this new composite image from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer and the Spitzer Space Telescope. The wide, ultraviolet eyes of Galaxy Evolution Explo
• 19:4219:42, 11 July 2007 diff hist +3,157‎ N File:Sig06-021.jpg ‎ ==Summary== This image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveals the complex life cycle of young stars, from their dust-shrouded beginnings to their stellar debuts. The stellar nursery was spotted in a cosmic cloud sitting 21,000 light-years away in th
• 19:4019:40, 11 July 2007 diff hist +2,296‎ N File:Ssc2006-17a.jpg ‎ ==Summary== This vibrant image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to our own Milky Way galaxy. The infrared image, a mosaic of more than 100,000 individual tiles, offers astronomers a unique chance to
• 19:3519:35, 11 July 2007 diff hist +2,987‎ N File:Ssc2006-17b.jpg ‎ ==Summary== This vibrant image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy to our own Milky Way galaxy. The infrared image, a mosaic of 300,000 individual tiles, offers astronomers a unique chance to study the
• 19:3219:32, 11 July 2007 diff hist +1,029‎ File:Ssc2006-16a.jpg ‎No edit summary
• 19:3019:30, 11 July 2007 diff hist +2,934‎ N File:Ssc2006-16b.jpg ‎ ==Summary== This infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Orion nebula, our closest massive star-making factory, 1,450 light-years from Earth. The nebula is close enough to appear to the naked eye as a fuzzy star in the sword of the po
• 19:2619:26, 11 July 2007 diff hist +2,586‎ N File:Ssc2006-16d.jpg ‎ ==Summary== This image composite shows a part of the Orion constellation surveyed by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The shape of the main image was designed by astronomers to roughly follow the shape of Orion cloud A, an enormous star-making factory cont
• 19:2519:25, 11 July 2007 diff hist +1,986‎ N File:Sig06-019.jpg ‎ ==Summary== This new false-colored image from NASA's Hubble, Chandra and Spitzer space telescopes shows a giant jet of particles that has been shot out from the vicinity of a type of supermassive black hole called a quasar. The jet is enormous, stretching
• 19:2319:23, 11 July 2007 diff hist +2,233‎ N File:Sig06-018.jpg ‎ ==Summary== Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have spotted a "dust factory" thirty million light-years away in the spiral galaxy M74. The factory is located at the scene of a massive star's explosive death, or supernova. While astronomers
• 19:1519:15, 11 July 2007 diff hist +2,435‎ N File:Sig06-015.jpg ‎ ==Summary== Astronomers have discovered nearly 300 galaxy clusters and groups, including almost 100 located 8 to 10 billion light-years away, using the space-based Spitzer Space Telescope and the ground-based Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National
• 19:1319:13, 11 July 2007 diff hist +3,279‎ N File:Sig06-012.jpg ‎ ==Summary== For the universe's biggest stars, even death is a show. Massive stars typically end their lives in explosive cataclysms, or supernovae, flinging abundant amounts of hot gas and radiation into outer space. Remnants of these dramatic deaths can
• 19:0719:07, 11 July 2007 diff hist +2,543‎ N File:Merging Galaxies NGC 2207 & IC 2163.jpg ‎ ==Summary== Something appears to be peering through a shiny red mask, in this new false-colored image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The mysterious blue eyes are actually starlight from the cores of two merging galaxies, called NGC 2207 and IC 2163.
• 19:0219:02, 11 July 2007 diff hist +1,177‎ N File:Sig06-008.jpg ‎ ==Summary== When one galaxy won’t do the trick, perhaps 20,000 will do. In the blue image on the left, 24 micron images of over 20,000 faint, distant galaxies have been added together. None of these galaxies were detectable, alone, at longer wavelengths
• 19:0119:01, 11 July 2007 diff hist +2,039‎ N File:Ssc2006-10a.jpg ‎ ==Summary== This plot tells astronomers that a pulsar, the remnant of a stellar explosion, is surrounded by a disk of its own ashes. The disk, revealed by the two data points at the far right from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, is the first ever found ar
• 18:5918:59, 11 July 2007 diff hist +1,775‎ N File:Sig06-007.jpg ‎ ==Summary== This series of deep images shows the small field surrounding the brightest SCUBA galaxy (CUDSS 14.1) in this study at six wavelengths. From left to right, these images were taken at, first, R band using the Subaru telescope, then 3.6, 4.5, 5.8
• 18:5818:58, 11 July 2007 diff hist +2,103‎ N File:Sig06-006.jpg ‎ ==Summary== Like great friends, galaxies stick together. Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have spotted a handful of great galactic pals bonding back when the universe was a mere 4.6 billion years old. The universe is believed to be 13.7 bi
• 18:4918:49, 11 July 2007 diff hist +1,728‎ N File:Ssc2006-06a.jpg ‎ ==Summary== This graph of infrared data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope tells astronomers that a distant galaxy called IRAS 08752+3915 is experiencing a storm of tiny crystals made up of silicates. The crystals are similar to the glass-like grains of
• 18:4518:45, 11 July 2007 diff hist +2,290‎ N File:Ssc2006-05a.jpg ‎ ==Summary== This graph of data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the composition of a monstrous disk of what may be planet-forming dust circling the colossal "hypergiant" star called R 66. The disk contains complex organic molecules called polycyc
• 18:4318:43, 11 July 2007 diff hist +2,750‎ N File:Ssc2006-01b.jpg ‎ ==Summary== Six hundred and fifty light-years away in the constellation Aquarius, a dead star about the size of Earth, is refusing to fade away peacefully. In death, it is spewing out massive amounts of hot gas and intense ultraviolet radiation, creating
• 18:4218:42, 11 July 2007 diff hist +2,688‎ N File:Sig06-002.jpg ‎ ==Summary== This "tornado," designated Herbig-Haro 49/50, is shaped by a cosmic jet packing a powerful punch as it plows through clouds of interstellar gas and dust. The tornado-like feature is actually a shock front created by a jet of material flowing
• 18:3818:38, 11 July 2007 diff hist +3,022‎ N File:Sig06-005.jpg ‎ ==Summary== This false-color composite image shows the Cartwheel galaxy as seen by the Galaxy Evolution Explorer's Far Ultraviolet detector (blue); the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera-2 in B-band visible light (green); the Spitzer
• 18:3618:36, 11 July 2007 diff hist +2,337‎ N File:Ssc2006-02a medium.jpg ‎ ==Summary== This dazzling infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows hundreds of thousands of stars crowded into the swirling core of our spiral Milky Way galaxy. In visible-light pictures, this region cannot be seen at all because dust lyin

10 July 2007

• 20:0320:03, 10 July 2007 diff hist +3,473‎ N File:Ssc2006-02b.jpg ‎ ==Summary== Our 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. Taken wi
• 19:5519:55, 10 July 2007 diff hist +3,206‎ N File:Ssc2006-03a.jpg ‎ ==Summary== The sky is a jewelry box full of sparkling stars in these infrared images. The crown jewels are 14 massive stars on the verge of exploding as supernovae. These hefty stars reside in one of the most massive star clusters in the Milky Way Galax
• 19:5319:53, 10 July 2007 diff hist +1,403‎ N File:Ssc2006-01a.jpg ‎ ==Summary== The Helix Nebula, which is composed of gaseous shells and disks puffed out by a dying sunlike star, exhibits complex structure on the smallest visible scales. In this new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, infrared light at wavelengths
• 19:5119:51, 10 July 2007 diff hist +3,511‎ N File:Sig05-028.jpg ‎ ==Summary== Newborn stars, hidden behind thick dust, are revealed in this image of a section of the Christmas Tree Cluster from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, created in joint effort between Spitzer's Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) and Multiband Imaging Ph