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NASA’s Hubble Views a Cosmic Skyrocket
Source: Hubblesite.org July 3, 2012: Resembling a Fourth of July skyrocket, Herbig-Haro 110 is a geyser of hot gas from a newborn star that splashes up against and ricochets from the dense core of a cloud of molecular hydrogen. This image was taken with Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys in 2004 and 2005 and the…
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Hubble Legacy Archive
Welcome to the Hubble Legacy Archive The Hubble Legacy Archive (HLA) is designed to optimize science from the Hubble Space Telescope by providing online, enhanced Hubble products and advanced browsing capabilities. The HLA is a joint project of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), the Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF), and the Canadian Astronomy…
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Snow Angel
Object Names: S106, Sh2-106, Sharpless 2-106Image Type: Astronomical/Illustration Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) December 15, 2011: The bipolar star-forming region, called Sharpless 2-106, or S106 for short, looks like a soaring, celestial snow angel. The outstretched “wings” of the nebula record the contrasting imprint of heat and motion against the backdrop…
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Hubble Opens New Eyes on the Universe
Image above: From the left are astronauts Michael J. Massimino, Michael T. Good, both mission specialists; Gregory C. Johnson, pilot; Scott D. Altman, commander; K. Megan McArthur, John M. Grunsfeld and Andrew J. Feustel, all mission specialists. Image credit: NASA Veteran astronaut Scott D. Altman commanded the final space shuttle mission to Hubble. Retired Navy…
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Pushing Back Time
Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/PSU/S.Park & D.Burrows.; Optical: NASA/STScI/CfA/P.Challis February 24, 2007 marks the 20th anniversary of one of the most spectacular events observed by astronomers in modern times, Supernova 1987A. The destruction of a massive star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a nearby galaxy, spawned detailed observations by many different telescopes, including NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory…
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Hubble Reveals Potential Titanium Oxide Deposits at Aristarchus and Schroter’s Valley Rille
Credit: NASA, ESA, and J. Garvin (NASA/GSFC)Aristarchus Crater in False Color This color composite focuses on the 26-mile-diameter (42-kilometer-diameter) Aristarchus impact crater, and employs ultraviolet- to visible-color-ratio information to accentuate differences that are potentially diagnostic of ilmenite- (i.e, titanium oxide) bearing materials as well as pyroclastic glasses. The symphony of color within the Aristarchus crater…
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Defining the Space your Living In
The general theory of relativity is as yet incomplete insofar as it has been able to apply the general principle of relativity satisfactorily only to gravitational fields, but not to the total field. We do not yet know with certainty by what mathematical mechanism the total field in space is to be described and what…
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Lost in Translation
Photo Credit: NASA Supernova Remnant Turns 400Four hundred years ago, sky watchers, including the famous astronomer Johannes Kepler, were startled by the sudden appearance of a “new star” in the western sky, rivaling the brilliance of the nearby planets. Now, astronomers using NASA’s three Great Observatories are unraveling the mysteries of the expanding remains of…
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We are , What Stars are Made of?
One thing I can tell you, though, is that most string theorist’s suspect that spacetime is a emergent Phenomena in the language of condensed matter physics Edward Witten Imagine indeed, that such a picture below is an approximate of how our Milky Way Galaxy would appear to the distant observer. “It is remarkable and ironic…
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Light House Keeper
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Dark Energy: Beyond Einstein Missions
Adept Charles L. Bennett “ADEPT will measure these supernovae, but its real advance lies in a new, more powerful technique. Patterns in temperature of the very young universe provide a ‘standard ruler’ that is imprinted on the pattern of galaxies across the sky. ADEPT aims to map these through space and time,” according to Bennett…
