Amazing Space SnapShots!

naen · Post time 9-1-2009 08:37 PM

Post Last Edit by amazed at 17-9-2009 07:53

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a telescope in orbit around the Earth, named after astronomer Edwin Hubble. Its position outside the Earth's atmosphere provides significant advantages over ground-based telescopes - images are not blurred by the atmosphere, there is no background from light scattered by the air, and the Hubble can observe ultra-violet light that is normally absorbed by the ozone layer in observations made from Earth.

NGC 1512
This picture is a multi-wavelength composite made by seven individual exposures made with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

The Red Spider Nebula
Huge waves are sculpted in this two-lobed nebula some 3000 light-years away in the constellation of Sagittarius. This warm planetary nebula harbours one of the hottest stars known and its powerful stellar winds generate waves 100 billion kilometres high.

The Pinwheel Galaxy
The Pinwheel Galaxy (also known as Messier 101 or NGC 5457) is a face-on spiral galaxy about 27 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major.

NGC 6397 Star Cluster
This Hubble Space Telescope view of the core of one of the nearest globular star clusters, called NGC 6397, resembles a treasure chest of glittering jewels. The cluster is located 8,200 light-years away in the constellation Ara.

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naen · Post time 9-1-2009 08:37 PM

Edge-On
The Hubble telescope has snapped this remarkable view of a perfectly 'edge-on' galaxy, NGC 4013. This new Hubble picture reveals with exquisite detail huge clouds of dust and gas extending along, as well as far above, the galaxy's main disk.

Pleiades
The Hubble Space Telescope has caught the eerie, wispy tendrils of a dark interstellar cloud being destroyed by the passage of one of the brightest stars in the Pleiades star cluster. Like a flashlight beam shining off the wall of a cave, the star is reflecting light off the surface of pitch black clouds of cold gas laced with dust. These are called reflection nebulae.

NGC 3132 Pool of Light
NGC 3132 is a striking example of a planetary nebula. This expanding cloud of gas, surrounding a dying star, is known to amateur astronomers in the southern hemisphere as the Eight-Burst or the Southern Ring Nebula.

Crab Nebula
The Crab Nebula is one of the most intricately structured and highly dynamical objects ever observed. The new Hubble image of the Crab was assembled from 24 individual exposures taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and is the highest resolution image of the entire Crab Nebula ever made.

naen · Post time 9-1-2009 08:38 PM

Keyhole Nebula of Carina Nebula
Previously unseen details of a mysterious, complex structure within the Carina Nebula (NGC 3372) are revealed by this image of the Keyhole Nebula, obtained with the Hubble Space Telescope.

Cone Nebula
Resembling a nightmarish beast rearing its head from a crimson sea, this celestial object is actually just a pillar of gas and dust called the Cone Nebula.

Celestial Fireworks
Resembling the puffs of smoke and sparks from a summer fireworks display in this image from NASA ESA Hubble Space Telescope, these delicate filaments are actually sheets of debris from a stellar explosion in a neighboring galaxy.

The Spirograph Nebula
Glowing like a multi-faceted jewel, the planetary nebula IC 418 lies about 2, 000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Lepus. In this picture, the Hubble telescope reveals some remarkable textures weaving through the nebula. Their origin, however, is still uncertain.

naen · Post time 9-1-2009 08:39 PM

Hubbles Variable Nebula
Hubble's variable nebula is named (like the Hubble telescope itself) after the American astronomer Edwin P. Hubble, who carried out some ofthe early studies of this object. It is a fan-shaped cloud of gas and dust which is illuminated by R Monocerotis (R Mon), the bright star at the bottom end of the nebula.

The Tarantula
The Tarantula is situated 170,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) in the Southern sky and is clearly visible to the naked eye as a large milky patch.

NGC 3603 - Through The Latest Hubble Telescope
The star-forming region NGC 3603 contains one of the most impressive massive young star clusters in the Milky Way. Bathed in gas and dust the cluster formed in a huge rush of star formation thought to have occurred around a million years ago. The hot blue stars at the core are responsible for carving out a huge cavity in the gas seen to the right of the star cluster in NGC 3603抯 centre.

Eagle Nebula
Appearing like a winged fairy-tale creature poised on a pedestal, this object is actually a billowing tower of cold gas and dust rising from a stellar nursery called the Eagle Nebula. The soaring tower is 9.5 light-years or about 90 trillion kilometres high, about twice the distance from our Sun to the next nearest star.

seroja · Post time 9-1-2009 09:18 PM

walo pown santek..tp mengerunkan..

a.ceCCo · Post time 9-1-2009 09:24 PM

Subhanallahhhhhh

naen · Post time 9-1-2009 09:40 PM

cantik yek!

ada lagik .. nanti orang postkan yg 'top ten' nye .. lagik wOw!

naen · Post time 10-1-2009 09:57 PM

Hubble Finds Stars That 'Go Ballistic'

Hubble Image of Stellar Bow Shock

Even some stars go ballistic, racing through interstellar space like bullets and tearing through clouds of gas.

Images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope reveal 14 young, runaway stars plowing through regions of dense interstellar gas, creating brilliant arrowhead structures and trailing tails of glowing gas. These arrowheads, or bow shocks, form when the stars' powerful stellar winds, streams of matter flowing from the stars, slam into surrounding dense gas. The phenomenon is similar to that seen when a speeding boat pushes through water on a lake.

"We think we have found a new class of bright, high-velocity stellar interlopers," says astronomer Raghvendra Sahai of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and leader of the Hubble study. "Finding these stars is a complete surprise because we were not looking for them. When I first saw the images, I said 'Wow. This is like a bullet speeding through the interstellar medium.' Hubble's sharp 'eye' reveals the structure and shape of these bow shocks."

The astronomers can only estimate the ages, masses, and velocities of these renegade stars. The stars appear to be young

alphawolf · Post time 12-1-2009 09:48 AM

Banyak2 gambar angkasa ni..antara yang aku suka ialah ini....Horsehead Nebula

me_ai · Post time 15-1-2009 03:51 PM

kelebihan telescope di luar ruang udara bumi,

dpt elakkan faktor kecerahan permukaan bumi, yg juga di panggil pencemaran cahaya, sbbkan byk bandar besar di dunia ni diterangi pelbagai lampu + neon

selain tu, atmosfera bumi byk membalikkan cahaya dan memberi kesan kepada imej yg dirakan sekiranya teleskop di permukaan bumi di letakkan utk mendaptkan objek angkasa lepas ni (deep sky object)

terdapat team amatur di malaysia yg makin aktif dlm sesi pencerapan dan astrophtography....
antara website dan kumpulan yg aktif...
www.falak-online.net

Horse Head Nebula by Universe24

boleh bezakan gmbr dari permukaan bumi dan yg diambil oleh hubble Telescope...
telescope ni pun kecik je

naen · Post time 2-2-2009 07:08 AM

Hubble Snaps a Splendid Planetary Nebula

January 15, 2009: The Hubble Space Telescope has imaged striking details of the famed planetary nebula designated NGC 2818, which lies in the southern constellation of Pyxis (the Compass). The spectacular structure of the planetary nebula contains the outer layers of a star that were expelled into interstellar space. The glowing gaseous shrouds in the nebula were shed by the central star after it ran out of fuel to sustain the nuclear reactions in its core.

This Hubble image was taken in November 2008 with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. The colors in the image represent a range of emissions coming from the clouds of the nebula: red represents nitrogen, green represents hydrogen, and blue represents oxygen.

+ another great shot by hubble .. cantik!

naen · Post time 2-2-2009 07:11 AM

nice weyy! me'acey me-ai

memang banyak noise & of course nampak lagik jauh

tapi still nampak bentuk 'kepala kuda' tuh & warna merah

aimez · Post time 2-2-2009 09:13 AM

Cantik! Indah sungguh ciptaanNya..

aniesza · Post time 3-2-2009 03:36 PM

cantik.. yg nebula horsehead tu lawa... ciptaan tuhan x terjangkau oleh akal kita...

beautiful_faith · Post time 16-9-2009 10:30 PM

This strikingpicture reveals an eclectic mix of embryonic stars living in thetattered neighborhood of one of the most famous massive stars in ourMilky Way galaxy, Eta Carinae. Astronomers say that radiation and windsfrom Eta Carinae and its massive siblings ripped apart the surroundingcloud of gas and dust, shocking the new stars into being. Click toenlarge.Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/N. Smith (University of Arizona)

Russell Croman [rcroman] photo of the dark gas and dust cloud known as the Cone Nebula.

This captivating photo of the IC-1396, one of the largest emission nebulas, was taken by Michael Downing [astroden],

Subbahanallah..cantiknya..

beautiful_faith · Post time 16-9-2009 10:32 PM

This is the core of the grand design spiral galaxy M 100, as imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC 2). The WFPC 2 contains modified optics that correct for Hubble's previously blurry vision, allowing the telescope for the first time to cleanly resolve faint structure as little as 30 light-years across in a galaxy which is tens of millions of light-years away.