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Out of the Void Poster by Bebops
Tuesday, July 28, 2015
Zazzle T-Shirt from Bebops: St. Francis Tank Top
Monday, July 27, 2015
Monogram Orion Nebula and Trapezium Stars Tie
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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series A gorgeous picture from the deep universe featuring the bubbling, seething mass of gas and dust that is the Orion Nebula, 1500 light years away and the closest star-forming region to us. The nebula is a star nursery in which there are birthing, new-born, young and adult stars. Look carefully in the brightest central region and you'll see the Trapezium, four of the most massive stars in Orion.
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Image credit: NASA, ESA, M. Robberto (Space Telescope Science Institute/ESA) and the Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team
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Zazzle All-Over Printed Unisex Tank from Bebops: Cat in the Window
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Sunday, July 26, 2015
Lagoon Nebula - Our Breathtaking Universe Skate Board
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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series A fantastic outer space picture showing the third image of ESO’s GigaGalaxy Zoom project. It's an amazing vista of the Lagoon Nebula taken with the 67-million-pixel Wide Field Imager attached to the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile.
The image covers more than one and a half square degrees - an area eight times larger than that of the Full Moon. It's based on images acquired using three different broadband filters (B, V, R) and one narrow-band filter (H-alpha).
It's a mind-expanding, wonderful image that reveals a little of the wonder that is our universe.
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ESO/J. Emerson/VISTA www.eso.org
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Zazzle Baseball from Lorna Muscott: Jack Russell - Cute Play Ball Desi...
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Saturday, July 25, 2015
Zazzle T-Shirt from Bebops: Polyphemus Moth Tank Top
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Helix Nebula, Galaxies and Stars 2 Inch Square Button
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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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