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100 Million Years Later, Antennae Galactic Collision Continues – NASA video images
See the new, composite image from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope, and the Spitzer Space Telescope which shows two colliding galaxies more than a 100 million years after they first impacted each other. The continuing collision of the Antennae galaxies, located about 62 million light years from Earth, has triggered the... »
Zooming in on the young cluster R136 and biggest star R136a1 – with ESO video images
New discovery: Star R136a1 is the biggest and brightest yet discovered by astronomers! Image of the massive, young star cluster called R136, which resides in the 30 Doradus Nebula (also known as Tarantula Nebula), a turbulent star-birth region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. This image, taken in... »
Happy 20th Anniversary, HUBBLE: Window to the Universe – video
Image: The Hubble Space Telescope as seen from the departing Space Shuttle Atlantis, flying STS-125, HST Servicing Mission 4, the fifth and final human spaceflight to visit the observatory. Photo credit: NASA, STS-125 Crew (19 May 2009). Happy 20th Anniversary, HUBBLE: the Window to the Universe The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is one of... »
What’s Up for February from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory?
This February NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, celebrate the 400th anniversary of Galileo’s first telescopic view of Jupiter and its 4 largest moons. On January 7, 1610, in Padua, Italy, Galileo Galilei looked up above the constellation Orion and aimed his telescope at the planet Jupiter, which was near Orion that night.... »
NASA Craft To Photograph Entire Universe
Source: VOA News (MacKenzie Babb, Washington, 14 Dec 2009) – NASA Craft To Photograph Entire Universe U.S. space agency NASA has launched a new space telescope that will allow scientists to look at the universe closer than ever before. NASA’s officials say the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, known as WISE, will help them to discover,... »
NASA’s WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) Launch – video
Source: NASA NASA’s WISE Eye on the Universe Begins All-Sky Survey Mission (14 Dec 2009) WISE has launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif. Image credit: United Launch Alliance VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, lifted off over the Pacific Ocean this morning on its way to map the... »
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