Tag Archives: Hubble Space Telescope

A Spirit in Perpetual Night

Posted on September 28, 2018 by

Image credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA). Acknowledgement: J. Hughes (Rutgers University). Located roughly 150,000 light years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) in the constellation Dorado, a spirit wanders in perpetual night, only observing stars … Continue reading →

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Bright Light, Bright Light!

Posted on May 25, 2018 by

Image credit & copyright: NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. To an astronomer (even us amateurs), nothing is more annoying than light pollution or that neighbor that just won’t turn off their floodlights on the side of the house. Well here we … Continue reading →

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Cepheid Variable Star RS Puppis from Hubble

Posted on May 20, 2018 by

Image credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)-Hubble/Europe Collaboration. Residing about 6,500 light years away in the southern constellation Puppis is this magnificent and seemingly mysterious object, shrouded in a cocoon of stellar material. This image comes to … Continue reading →

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What a Wonderful Mess

Posted on May 2, 2018 by

Image credit: NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Go home dwarf, you’re drunk. No, I’m not talking about Tyrion Lannister though it would fit the description; I’m talking about this busy dwarf galaxy cataloged as UGC 8201, 15 million light years away … Continue reading →

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Happy 28th Birthday Hubble

Posted on April 21, 2018 by

Image credit: NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Launched onboard STS-31 Discovery from KSC LC-39B on April 24, 1990; we are embarking on the legendary Hubble Space Telescope’s 28th birthday week. There may be other important telescopes throughout history but none have … Continue reading →

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NGC 5023; A Shower of Diamonds

Posted on April 14, 2018 by

Image credit & copyright: NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. This beautiful edge-on spiral galaxy may only be roughly half the size of our Milky Way but the resolution that Hubble delivers is just amazing. What’s great about this image is that … Continue reading →

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A City on the Edge

Posted on January 4, 2018 by

Image credit & copyright: NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the Hubble Heritage Team. At first glance you may think of this image as a digital rendering or perhaps a rip in spacetime; light from another universe flooding into the fold, … Continue reading →

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