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Blowing a Super-duper Celestial Bubble
Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/U.Mich./S.Oey, IR: NASA/JPL, Optical: ESO/WFI/2.2-m. Zoom by John Williams/TerraZoom using Zoomify When NASA combines images from different…
Celestial Dreaming in a Bit of Pipe Smoke
Zoom into the Pipe Nebula by using the zoom slider, or pan around the image by using the arrow icons…
Tranquil Galaxy is Home to Violent Events
This beautiful spiral galaxy looks peaceful, with its swirling white and blue arms appearing like they could be home to…
Looking Into the Heart of a Quasar
Caption: Artist’s impression of the quasar 3C 279. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser From an ESO press release: An international team of…
Remastering a Cosmic Cat Print
Glowing red against a backdrop of stars, amateur astronomers have remastered one of the sky's most distinctive nebulae, the Cat's…
How to Measure a Hot Jupiter
An international team of astronomers has figured out a way to determine details of an exoplanet's atmosphere from 50 light-years…
Gas Cloud Will Collide with our Galaxy’s Black Hole in 2013
Scientists have determined a giant gas cloud is on a collision course with the black hole in the center of…
Coming Soon: World’s Largest Optical Telescope
[/caption] The world’s largest optical/infrared telescope has been given the initial go-ahead to be built. Called the European Extremely Large…
How Do The Biggest Telescopes Work?
[/caption] Located high in the mountains of Chile's Atacama Desert, the enormous telescopes of the European Southern Observatory have been…
Where All The Hottest Stars Gather
[/caption] An ESO telescope captures a group of hot young stars that would outshine any Hollywood party! At the upper…