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I HEART HUBBLE: Stellar Demise

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“Butterfly Emerges from Stellar Demise in Planetary Nebula NGC 6302”: This celestial object looks like a delicate butterfly. But it is far from serene. What resemble dainty butterfly wings are…

March 1, 2015

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I HEART HUBBLE: Hourglass Nebula

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"Planetary Nebula MyCn18: An Hourglass Pattern Around a Dying Star": JANUARY 16, 1996: This Hubble telescope snapshot of MyCn18, a young planetary nebula, reveals that the object has an hourglass…

November 12, 2014

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I HEART HUBBLE: Crab Nebula

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Most detailed image of the Crab Nebula This new [2005] Hubble image - One among the largest ever produced with the Earth-orbiting observatory - shows gives the most detailed view…

October 7, 2014

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I HEART HUBBLE: Quadruple Saturn moon transit

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Quadruple Saturn moon transit snapped by Hubble This close-up view of Saturn's disc captures the transit of several moons across the face of the gas giant planet. The giant orange…

September 8, 2014

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I HEART HUBBLE: Galaxy Rose

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A rose made of galaxies This image of a pair of interacting galaxies called Arp 273 was released to celebrate the 21st anniversary of the launch of the NASA/ESA Hubble…

September 8, 2014

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I HEART HUBBLE: Extreme star cluster

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Extreme star cluster bursts into life in new Hubble image The star-forming region NGC 3603 - seen here in the latest Hubble Space Telescope image [quote from 2007] - contains…

September 8, 2014

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I HEART HUBBLE: Sombrero Galaxy

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Hubble Mosaic of the Majestic Sombrero Galaxy NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has trained its razor-sharp eye on one of the universe's most stately and photogenic galaxies, the Sombrero galaxy, Messier…

September 8, 2014

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I HEART HUBBLE: Dust Clouds

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Nearby Dust Clouds in the Milky Way The yearly ritual of spring cleaning clears a house of dust as well as dust "bunnies", those pesky dust balls that frolic under…

September 8, 2014

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I HEART HUBBLE: Jet in Carina

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"Jet in Carina: WFC3 UVIS": A pillar of gas in the Carina Nebula is bathed in the light of hot, massive stars. Radiation and fast winds from the stars sculpt…

June 16, 2014

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October 24, 2014

Tycho Brahe, Astronomical Instruments (1598)

Born in 1546 in Denmark, Tycho Brahe served as an astronomer for the king of Denmark, and later,…

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October 2, 2014

Nicolaas van Falkendaal’s scientific instruments

From the collection of the Rijksmuseum, these illustrations of scientific instruments appeared in Natuurkundige lessen, door proefneemingen bevestigd,…

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