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Light and Shadow in the Cari
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Light and Shadow in the Carina Nebula |
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What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. Back to top [ #top ] |
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Internet Voters Get Two Gala
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Internet Voters Get Two Galaxies in One from Hubble |
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What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. Located about 130 million light-years away, NGC 4650A is one of only 100 known polar-ring galaxies. Their unusual disk-ring structure is not yet understood fully. One possibility is that polar rings are the remnants of colossal collisions between two galaxies sometime in the distant past, probably at least 1 billion years ago. What is left of one galaxy has become the rotating inner disk of old red stars in the center. Meanwhile, another smaller galaxy, which ventured too close, was probably severely damaged or destroyed. During the collision the gas from the smaller galaxy would have been stripped off and captured by the larger galaxy, forming a new ring of dust, gas, and stars, which orbit around the inner galaxy almost at right angles to the old disk. This is the polar ring that we see almost edge-on in this Hubble telescope view. Read more: * Release Text [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1999/16/text/ ] |
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Hubble Takes a Close-up View
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Hubble Takes a Close-up View of a Reflection Nebula in Orion |
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What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. Back to top [ #top ] |
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Beauty in the Eye of Hubble
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Beauty in the Eye of Hubble |
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What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. Back to top [ #top ] |
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A Wheel within a Wheel
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A Wheel within a Wheel |
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What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. Back to top [ #top ] |
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Hubble Astronomers Feast on
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Hubble Astronomers Feast on an Interstellar Hamburger |
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What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. Back to top [ #top ] |
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An Old Star Gives Up the Gho
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An Old Star Gives Up the Ghost |
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What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. Back to top [ #top ] |
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Too Close for Comfort
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Too Close for Comfort |
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What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. Back to top [ #top ] |
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Heritage Project Celebrates
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Heritage Project Celebrates Five Years of Harvesting the Best Images from Hubble Space Telescope |
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What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. Back to top [ #top ] |
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The Colorful Demise of a Sun
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The Colorful Demise of a Sun-like Star |
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A New Twist on an Old Nebula
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A New Twist on an Old Nebula |
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A New Twist on an Old Nebula
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A New Twist on an Old Nebula |
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Light Continues to Echo Thre
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Light Continues to Echo Three Years After Stellar Outburst |
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What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. Back to top [ #top ] |
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Hubble Catches Jupiter Chang
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Hubble Catches Jupiter Changing Its Stripes |
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Mars: Closest Approach 2007
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Mars: Closest Approach 2007 |
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What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took this close-up of the red planet Mars when it was just 55 million miles ? 88 million kilometers ? away. This color image was assembled from a series of exposures taken within 36 hours of the Mars closest approach with Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. Mars will be closest to Earth on December 18, at 11:45 p.m. Universal Time (6:45 p.m. EST). |
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Mars: Closest Approach 2007
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Mars: Closest Approach 2007 |
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What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took this close-up of the red planet Mars when it was just 55 million miles ? 88 million kilometers ? away. This color image was assembled from a series of exposures taken within 36 hours of the Mars closest approach with Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. Mars will be closest to Earth on December 18, at 11:45 p.m. Universal Time (6:45 p.m. EST). |
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Mars: Closest Approach 2007
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Mars: Closest Approach 2007 |
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What is Hubble Heritage? A monthly showcase of new and archival Hubble images. Go to the Heritage site. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took this close-up of the red planet Mars when it was just 55 million miles ? 88 million kilometers ? away. This color image was assembled from a series of exposures taken within 36 hours of the Mars closest approach with Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. Mars will be closest to Earth on December 18, at 11:45 p.m. Universal Time (6:45 p.m. EST). |
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NGC 2440: Cocoon of a New Wh
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NGC 2440: Cocoon of a New White Dwarf |
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Like a butterfly, a white dwarf star begins its life by casting off a cocoon that enclosed its former self. In this analogy, however, the Sun would be a caterpillar and the ejected shell of gas would become the prettiest of all! In the above cocoon [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/1999/35/image/e ], the planetary nebula designated NGC 2440, contains one of the hottest white dwarf stars known. The white dwarf [ http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l2/dwarfs.html ] can be seen as the bright dot near the photo's center. Our Sun will eventually become a "white dwarf butterfly", but not for another 5 billion years. The above false color image [ http://heritage.stsci.edu/1999/38/ ] was post-processed by Forrest Hamilton [ http://heritage.stsci.edu/commonpages/infoindex/ourproject/f_hamilton.html ]. |
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