News tagged with spiral arm
VISTA views the Sculptor Galaxy (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A spectacular new image of the Sculptor Galaxy (NGC 253) has been taken with the ESO VISTA telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chile as part of one of its first major observational campaigns. ...
Jun 16, 2010 |
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Circling Saturn: Carolyn Porco on her Celestial Trip
(PhysOrg.com) -- Carolyn Porco is on a mission. As she explained to an audience of several hundred gathered at the Radcliffe Gymnasium earlier this month, in a lecture titled “At Saturn: Tripping the Light ...
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Apr 19, 2010 |
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Hubble snaps heavyweight of the Leo Triplet
Hubble has snapped a spectacular view of the largest "player" in the Leo Triplet, a galaxy with an unusual anatomy: it displays asymmetric spiral arms and an apparently displaced core. The peculiar anatomy ...
Apr 08, 2010 |
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Snowflake-Shaped Galaxy From Hubble Helps Ring in the New Year
(PhysOrg.com) -- As part of its Hubble Heritage program, NASA has released an image, taken by a team led by UA astronomer Rodger Thompson, of a galaxy that resembles a snowflake.
Jan 18, 2010 |
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First Direct Imaging of a Young Binary System
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of astronomers from The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, and other universities have captured the first direct image of a young ...
Dec 15, 2009 |
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Hubble Image Showcases Star Birth in M83, the Southern Pinwheel
(PhysOrg.com) -- The spectacular new camera installed on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope during Servicing Mission 4 in May has delivered the most detailed view of star birth in the graceful, curving arms of ...
Nov 05, 2009 |
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Swift makes best-ever ultraviolet portrait of Andromeda Galaxy
In a break from its usual task of searching for distant cosmic explosions, NASA's Swift satellite has acquired the highest-resolution view of a neighboring spiral galaxy ever attained in the ultraviolet. The ...
Sep 16, 2009 |
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NASA's Spitzer Images Out-of-This-World Galaxy
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has imaged a wild creature of the dark -- a coiled galaxy with an eye-like object at its center.
Jul 23, 2009 |
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Hubble celebrates 19th anniversary with fountain of youth
Over the past 19 years Hubble has taken dozens of exotic pictures of galaxies going "bump in the night" as they collide with each other and have a variety of close encounters of the galactic kind. Just when ...
Apr 21, 2009 |
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Astrophysicists map the Milky Way's 4 spiral arms
Iowa State University's Martin Pohl is part of a research team that has developed the first complete map of the Milky Way galaxy's spiral arms. The map shows the inner part of the Milky Way has two prominent, symmetric spiral ...
Jan 05, 2009 |
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