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astronemma:

WR 22 and Eta Carinae regions of the Carina Nebula

Credit: ESO

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straangetimes:

Serre Montué par l’autre versant (by Mathieu Rivrin - Photographies)

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June 6, 2013 5 notes

From Astronomy Picture Of The Day; June 5, 2013:
M57: The Ring Nebula NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage (STScI / AURA)- ESA / Hubble Collaboration
Except for the rings of Saturn, the Ring Nebula (M57) is probably the most famous celestial band. Its classic appearance is understood to be due to our own perspective, though. The recent mapping of the expanding nebula’s 3-D structure, based in part on this clear Hubble image, indicates that the nebula is a relatively dense, donut-like ring wrapped around the middle of a football-shaped cloud of glowing gas. The view from planet Earth looks down the long axis of the football, face-on to the ring. Of course, in this well-studied example of a planetary nebula, the glowing material does not come from planets. Instead, the gaseous shroud represents outer layers expelled from the dying, once sun-like star, now a tiny pinprick of light seen at the nebula’s center. Intense ultraviolet light from the hot central star ionizes atoms in the gas. In the picture, the blue color in the center is ionized helium, the cyan color of the inner ring is the glow of hydrogen and oxygen, and the reddish color of the outer ring is from nitrogen and sulfur. The Ring Nebula is about one light-year across and 2,000 light-years away.

From Astronomy Picture Of The Day; June 5, 2013:

M57: The Ring Nebula
NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage (STScI / AURA)- ESA / Hubble Collaboration

Except for the rings of Saturn, the Ring Nebula (M57) is probably the most famous celestial band. Its classic appearance is understood to be due to our own perspective, though. The recent mapping of the expanding nebula’s 3-D structure, based in part on this clear Hubble image, indicates that the nebula is a relatively dense, donut-like ring wrapped around the middle of a football-shaped cloud of glowing gas. The view from planet Earth looks down the long axis of the football, face-on to the ring. Of course, in this well-studied example of a planetary nebula, the glowing material does not come from planets. Instead, the gaseous shroud represents outer layers expelled from the dying, once sun-like star, now a tiny pinprick of light seen at the nebula’s center. Intense ultraviolet light from the hot central star ionizes atoms in the gas. In the picture, the blue color in the center is ionized helium, the cyan color of the inner ring is the glow of hydrogen and oxygen, and the reddish color of the outer ring is from nitrogen and sulfur. The Ring Nebula is about one light-year across and 2,000 light-years away.

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June 6, 2013 2 notes

nubifragifraletueciglia:

Did you Make it To the Milky Way ? by Andrea LD on Flickr.

June 5, 2013

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galaxyshmalaxy:

M17 (Omega Nebula) (by Daniele Malleo)