Tag Archives: Nebula

First Full 3D Model of Eta Carinae Nebula Created by Nasa Scientists

Posted on July 9, 2014 by PlatoHagel

An international team of astronomers has developed a 3D model of a giant cloud ejected by the massive binary system Eta Carinae during its 19th century outburst. Eta Carinae lies about 7,500 light-years away in the southern constellation of Carina … Continue reading →

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Symmetry Breaking and the Crab Nebula

Posted on December 13, 2013 by PlatoHagel

The connection between superfluidity and symmetry breaking has had a glorious history. It has left us a rich legacy of fertile ideas, that seems far from exhaustion. PG 60 Superfluidity and Symmetry Breaking You know while there have been processes … Continue reading →

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NASA’s Fermi Spots ‘Superflares’ in the Crab Nebula

Posted on May 17, 2012 by PlatoHagel

The famous Crab Nebula supernova remnant has erupted in an enormous flare five times more powerful than any previously seen from the object. The outburst was first detected by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope on April 12 and lasted six … Continue reading →

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Eta Carinae

Posted on March 30, 2012 by PlatoHagel

Preview of a Forthcoming Supernova At the turn of the 19th century, the binary star system Eta Carinae was faint and undistinguished. In the first decades of the century, it became brighter and brighter, until, by April 1843, it was … Continue reading →

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Messier 8

Posted on July 11, 2011 by PlatoHagel

Seen through small telescopes and binoculars as a fuzzy glow, M8 is a region of intense star formation with a characteristic pink hue from ionized hydrogen (Balmer H-α recombination line). While red is indeed the hydrogen emission in this image … Continue reading →

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New View of Family Life in the North American Nebula

Posted on February 11, 2011 by PlatoHagel

This swirling landscape of stars is known as the North American nebula. In visible light, the region resembles North America, but in this new infrared view from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, the continent disappears. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech See: New View … Continue reading →

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Crab Nebula

Posted on January 8, 2011 by PlatoHagel

This is a mosaic image, one of the largest ever taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope of the Crab Nebula, a six-light-year-wide expanding remnant of a star’s supernova explosion. Japanese and Chinese astronomers recorded this violent event nearly 1,000 years … Continue reading →

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Hubble Takes a Close-up View of a Reflection Nebula in Orion

Posted on May 13, 2010 by PlatoHagel

Image Credit: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI)  ABOUT THIS IMAGE: Just weeks after NASA astronauts repaired the Hubble Space Telescope in December 1999, the Hubble Heritage Project snapped this picture of NGC 1999, a nebula in the constellation … Continue reading →

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Now, here is a SuperNova for Real

Posted on September 1, 2006 by PlatoHagel

The Crab Nebula from VLT Credit: FORS Team, 8.2-meter VLT, ESO Now the “ultimate proof” is to hold in our hands the matters defined by objects. This is the culmination of all dimensional perspectives, being “condensed to the moment” we … Continue reading →

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