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Saturn and Mars visit Milky Way Star Clouds

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Hubble Peers into the Storm

NASA - Hubble Space Telescope patch. Sept. 9, 2016

This shot from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a maelstrom of glowing gas and dark dust within one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). This stormy scene shows a stellar nursery known as N159, an HII region over 150 light-years across. N159 contains many hot young stars. These stars are emitting intense ultraviolet light, which causes nearby hydrogen gas to glow, and torrential stellar winds, which are carving out ridges, arcs, and filaments from the surrounding material. At the heart of this cosmic cloud lies the Papillon Nebula, a butterfly-shaped region of nebulosity. This small, dense object is classified as a High-Excitation Blob, and is thought to be tightly linked to the early stages of massive star formation.

Hubble orbiting Earth

N159 is located over 160,000 light-years away. It resides just south of the Tarantula Nebula (heic1402), another massive star-forming complex within the LMC.  This image comes from Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys.  The region was previously imaged by Hubble’s Wide Field Planetary Camera 2, which also resolved the Papillon Nebula for the first time. Related links: heic1402: https://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1402/ Hubble’s Wide Field Planetary Camera 2: https://www.spacetelescope.org/about/general/instruments/wfpc2/ For more information about the Hubble Space Telescope, visit: http://hubblesite.org/ http://www.nasa.gov/hubble https://www.spacetelescope.org/ Image, Video, Text, Credits: ESA/Hubble & NASA/Text credit: European Space Agency/NASA/Karl Hille. Greetings, Orbiter.ch Full article

Crab Pulsar at the core of the Crab Nebula

A HD Sweep Of Pluto!

Click on the image above to see a HD sweep of the surface of Pluto from NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft! This is a short post made to accompany my other Pluto post here!

Credits: NASA/New Horizons/Jhu

The Soul Nebula.

NGC 3576, an emission nebula in the constellation of Carina 6,000 light years away. -image via paulhaese.net

Emission Nebula Sh2-72

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Wings of a butterfly nebula.

Image Credit: Hubble Legacy Archive, NASA, ESA - Processing: Judy Schmidt

“Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex Area Of The Milky Way” by Martin Campbell on Flickr.