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“Mystic Mountain” in Carina Nebula------------------------
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This giant pillar of gas lies within a tempestuous stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula, located 7,500 light-years away in the southern constellation Carina. The image was released in celebration of the 20th anniversary of Hubble's launch and deployment into an orbit around the Earth. Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 observed the pillar on Feb. 1-2, 2010.
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The Carina Nebula------------------------
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The Carina Nebula is a 3-million-year-old cloud of gas that is a star-making factory, churning out tens of thousands of stars. The fairytale landscape includes several stars that are among the hottest and most massive known. Each star is about 10 times as hot and 100 times as massive as our Sun. The energy produced by these stars is sculpting the nearby gas and setting off the formation of a new generation of stars.-------
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The Butterfly Nebula------------------------
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is celestial object looks like a delicate butterfly. But it is far from serene. What resemble dainty butterfly wings are actually roiling cauldrons of gas heated to more than 36,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The gas is tearing across space at more than 600,000 miles an hour—fast enough to travel from Earth to the Moon in 24 minutes!A dying star that was once about five times the mass of the Sun is at the center of this fury. It has ejected its envelope of gases and is now unleashing a stream of ultraviolet radiation that is making the cast-off material glow. This object is an example of a planetary nebula, so-named because many of them have a round appearance resembling that of a planet when viewed through a small telescope.--------------------
The "butterfly" stretches for more than two light-years, which is about half the distance from the Sun to the nearest star, Alpha Centauri.-
The central star itself cannot be seen, because it is hidden within a doughnut-shaped ring of dust, which appears as a dark band pinching the nebula in the center. The thick dust belt constricts the star's outflow, creating the classic hourglass shape displayed by some planetary nebulae.---
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Hubble's Panoramic View of a Turbulent Star-making Region------------------------
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Several million young stars are vying for attention in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of a raucous stellar breeding ground in 30 Doradus, located in the heart of the Tarantula Nebula, in the Southern Hemisphere.-------------------
30 Doradus is the brightest star-forming region visible in a neighboring galaxy and home to the most massive stars ever seen. The nebula resides 170,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small, satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. No known star-forming region that is inside our Milky Way is as large or as prolific as 30 Doradus. NASA and the Space Telescope Science Institute released this picture to celebrate Hubble's 22nd anniversary.
The image reveals the stages of star birth, from embryonic stars a few thousand years old and still wrapped in cocoons of dark gas, to behemoths that die young in supernova explosions. 30 Doradus churns out stars at a furious pace over millions of years. Hubble shows star clusters of various ages, from about 2 million to 25 million years old.
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Orion Nebula------------------------
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The Orion Nebula is a turbulent stellar nursery where more than 3,000 stars are being born. It lies in the "sword region" of the constellation Orion, the Hunter. It is the closest stellar nursery to Earth.------------------------
The nebula's outermost layers of gas and dust appear as a grayish veil. The grayish-colored gas that forms a prominent curve from lower left to upper right can be thought of as the "rim" of a giant carved bowl. Descending into the bowl, we encounter a plateau-like region (reddish in color).
The bright central cavern takes us deeper yet. Called the Trapezium, it is the home of the four most massive stars in Orion. The light unleashed by these stars is carving a cavity around them and disrupting the growth of less massive stars.------------------------
Above and to the left of the bright central cavity is another smaller, bright region being sculpted by a young, massive star at its core.
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A Close Encounter---------------------
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An encounter between these two spiral galaxies, called Arp 273, has created twisted shapes, stretched spiral arms, and regions of intense star formation. The larger galaxy has been distorted into the shape of a rose by the gravitational pull of the smaller-------companion galaxy. Along the stretched spiral arms are clusters of hot, young, blue stars. A flurry of star formation also can be seen in the core of the companion galaxy. Arp 273 lies in the constellation Andromeda.--------------------
This dramatic image celebrates the 21st anniversary of Hubble's launch and deployment into orbit around Earth.------------------------
The interaction was imaged on December 17, 2010, with Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3).-----------------------
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Supermoon 2013
Photographers around the world looked up to the sky this past weekend to capture the "supermoon." This is the phenomenon when the moon makes its closest approach to Earth, appearing 30 percent brighter and about 14 percent larger than a typical full moon. It occurs about once every 14 months and is technically called a perigee full moon. At 221,823 miles from Earth, the supermoon was a feast for the eyes.-Leanne Burden Seidel (24 photos total)
A full moon also referred to as a "supermoon" rises over the San Juan bonfire on the beach of Playa de Poniente in Gijon on June 24. Fires formed by burning unwanted furniture, old school books, wood and effigies of malign spirits are seen across Spain as people celebrate the night of San Juan, a purification ceremony coinciding with the summer solstice. (Eloy Alonso/Reuters) #
A "supermoon" rises over the temple of Poseidon, the ancient Greek god of the seas, in Cape Sounion some 60 km (37 miles) east of Athens on June 23. A perigee moon coincides with a full moon creating a "super moon" when it passes by the earth at its closest point in 2013. (Yannis Behrakis /Reuters)#
A Sri Lanka Buddhist family observes religious rites on Poson Poya Day at the Kelaniya Rajamaha Viharaya temple in Kelaniya, Sri Lanka onJune 22. The Poson Full Moon Poya Day is significant to Buddhists in Sri Lanka as it marks the advent of Buddhism to the island nation in the third century BC during the reign of King Devanampiyatissa. (M.A. Pushpa/ EPA) #
A Hindu devotee performs a ritual at Jagannath temple during 'Bathing Festival' in Mithapara village, India, June 23. The festival is known as 'Devasnan Purnima' or 'Snana Yatra' is held on this full-moon day. There is a general belief that the devotee can wash away all their sins if they get a vision of the Lord on this day, therefore, it attracts thousands of pilgrims from all over the world. (Piyal Adhikary/EPA)#
A full moon in the 'Perigee' phase rises over the Jerusalem neighborhood of Har El, June 23. The moon was at its closest distance to Earth, a constellation also known as 'supermoon,' in which the earth's trabant appears between 12 to 14 per cent larger and according to scientific sources also about 30 percent brighter than the normal full moon. (Jim Hollander/EPA)#
