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Out of the Void Poster by Bebops
Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Zazzle Mug from Bebops: American Toads Bring It On
Monday, May 19, 2014
Helix Nebula, Galaxies and Stars Post Cards
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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series A fantastic colour-composite image of the Helix Nebula (NGC 7293). It was created from images obtained using the Wide Field Imager (WFI), an astronomical camera attached to the 2.2-metre Max-Planck Society/ESO telescope at the La Silla observatory in Chile.
The blue-green glow in the centre of the Helix comes from oxygen atoms shining under effects of the intense ultraviolet radiation of the 120 000 degree Celsius central star and the hot gas.
Further out from the star and beyond the ring of knots, the red colour from hydrogen and nitrogen is more prominent. A careful look at the central part of this object reveals not only the knots, but also many remote galaxies seen right through the thinly spread glowing gas.
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ESO/J. Emerson/VISTA www.eso.org
Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.
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Sunday, May 18, 2014
Desiderata Poem - Wreath Nebula, Milky Way Gallery Wrapped Canvas
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Inspirational Guidance series A gorgeous stretch-frame canvas featuring the full Desiderata by Max Ehrmann: Go placidly amidst the noise and haste... featuring the Wreath Nebula, located in our Milky way, near the boundary between the constellations of Perseus and Taurus.
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Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA
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Saturday, May 17, 2014
Stellar Group, Tarantula Nebula outer space image Cards
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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series Hundreds of brilliant blue stars wreathed by warm, glowing clouds in appear in this the most detailed view of the largest stellar nursery in our local galactic neighborhood. The massive, young stellar grouping, called R136, is only a few million years old and resides in the 30 Doradus (or Tarantula) Nebula, a turbulent star-birth region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way.
There is no known star-forming region in our galaxy as large or as prolific as 30 Doradus. Many of the diamond-like icy blue stars are among the most massive stars known. Several of them are over 100 times more massive than our Sun. These hefty stars are destined to pop off, like a string of firecrackers, as supernovas in a few million years. The image, taken in ultraviolet, visible, and red light by Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3, spans about 100 light-years.
The movement of the LMC around the Milky Way may have triggered the massive cluster's formation in several ways. The gravitational tug of the Milky Way and the companion Small Magellanic Cloud may have compressed gas in the LMC. Also, the pressure resulting from the LMC plowing through the Milky Way's halo may have compressed gas in the satellite. The cluster is a rare, nearby example of the many super star clusters that formed in the distant, early universe, when star birth and galaxy interactions were more frequent.
The LMC is located 170,000 light-years away and is a member of the Local Group of Galaxies, which also includes the Milky Way. The Hubble observations were taken Oct. 20-27, 2009. The blue color is light from the hottest, most massive stars; the green from the glow of oxygen; and the red from fluorescing hydrogen.
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Image credit: Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3
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Zazzle Night Light from Bebops: Deer at Sunrise
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Friday, May 16, 2014
Zazzle Wallet Case from Bebops: Goldfinch in Autumn Phone Wallet
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Zazzle Wallet Case from Bebops: Butterflies on Flowers Phone Wallet
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