Click here to check if anything new just came in.
January 19 2012
(via NASA - The Eagle Nebula)
January 16 2012
January 13 2012
January 06 2012
January 05 2012
January 04 2012
A clash among members of a famous galaxy quintet reveals an assortment of stars across a wide color range, from young blue stars to aging red stars.
This portrait of Stephan’s Quintet, also known as Hickson Compact Group 92, was taken by the new Wide Field Camera 3. Stephan’s Quintet, as the name implies, is a group of five galaxies. The name, however, is a bit of a misnomer. Studies have shown that group member NGC 7320, at upper left, is actually a foreground galaxy about seven times closer to Earth than the rest of the group.
Image and caption: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team
December 30 2011
(via NASA - Cosmic Ornament)
December 27 2011
December 23 2011
(via NASA - Cosmic Ornament)
December 20 2011
(via NASA - Spiral Galaxy)
cwnl:
LRG 3-757: Galactic Horseshoe
A gravitationally lensed galaxy
An interesting galaxy has been circled in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. The galaxy — one of a group of galaxies called Luminous Red Galaxies — has an unusually large mass, containing about ten times the mass of the Milky Way. However, it’s actually the blue horseshoe shape that circumscribes the red galaxy that is the real prize in this image.
This blue horseshoe is a distant galaxy that has been magnified and warped into a nearly complete ring by the strong gravitational pull of the massive foreground Luminous Red Galaxy. To see such a so-called Einstein Ring required the fortunate alignment of the foreground and background galaxies, making this object’s nickname “the Cosmic Horseshoe” particularly apt.
Credit: NASA/ESA/Hubble
夢幻蝴蝶
Maybe Soup is currently being updated? I'll try again automatically in a few seconds...















