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Out of the Void Poster by Bebops
Monday, February 2, 2015
Zazzle Fabric from Bebops: Penguins Abstract Fabric
Sunday, February 1, 2015
Cats Eye Nebula outer space picture Small Gift Bag
tagged with: supernova astronomy images, cats eye nebula, stellar evolution, dying star, red giant evolution, galaxy stars, hubble space pictures, nebula outer space picture, supernova remnants, hrbstslr tcenebnch, astronomy outer space image, nebulae, nasa
Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series A gorgeous gift bag featuring a composite image of the Cat's Eye nebula from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope.
This famous nebula represents a phase of stellar evolution after a star like our Sun runs out of fuel. In this phase, a star becomes an expanding red giant and sheds some of its outer layers, eventually leaving behind a hot core that collapses to form a dense white dwarf star. A fast wind emanating from the hot core rams into the ejected atmosphere, pushes it outward and creates the graceful filamentary structures.
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image code: tcenebnch
Image credit: NASA/Chandra www.nasa.gov
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Zazzle Mug from Bebops: Sweet Squirrel Sister Mug
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Zazzle iPhone / iPad case from Bebops: Frog with Attitude iPod 5G Case
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Zazzle Rickshaw Messenger Bag from Bebops: Monarch Butterfly Abstract
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Saturday, January 31, 2015
Helix Nebula, Galaxies and Stars Post Cards
tagged with: star nurseries, star clusters, starfields, nebulae, heavens, helix nebula, hrbstslr helixneb, star galaxies, astronomy images, outer space pictures, eso, european southern observatory, vista
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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image code: helixneb
ESO/J. Emerson/VISTA www.eso.org
Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.
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Zazzle Postage Stamp from Bebops: Young deer
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