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... of all stars visible to the naked eye. It was not known whether faint spiral nebulae were part of the Milky Way or distant universes, each composed of myriad stars.
Hubble ... the 100-inch telescope at Mt. Wilson, Calif., looked at individual stars in the Andromeda nebula and by the end of 1924 was able to show that Andromeda was many times ...
... , in 1953 Shklovsky had proposed that the strange light from such features as the Crab Nebula, puzzling because it occurred at all wavelengths instead of being concentrated into spectral lines like ... generated by electrons whirling in extremely strong magnetic fields. Researchers later discovered that the Crab Nebula and other remnants of great stellar explosions, or supernovas, emitted synchrotron radiation across the full ...
... gas called evaporating gaseous globules (EGGs). Hubble found the EGGs, appropriately enough, in the Eagle nebula which is a star-forming region of the nearby constellation Serpens. Many EGGs are found at the tip of the two largest finger-like features protruding from the nebula's monstrous columns of cold gas, dubbed "elephant trunks." Photos of EGGs at different stages ...
... around the Kuiper Belt829 and was dragged inward to its present location; 2) the solar nebula, the cloud of gas and dust that formed the solar system, had been much colder ... interstellar cloud of gas and dust, before the cloud had collapsed to form the solar nebula. Owen remarked further that, if either of the last two hypotheses were correct, then giant ...
... celebrated the HST's 15th anniversary with the release of new images of the Eagle Nebula and the Whirlpool galaxy (spiral galaxy M51), two of the most well-known objects that ... billboard size, the image would preserve the stunning details. The new image of the Eagle Nebula revealed ultraviolet light originating from a group of massive hot stars and sculpting a tall ...
... the object in SN 1979C the youngest and brightest example of such a pulsar wind nebula and the youngest known neutron star. The Crab pulsar, the best-known example of a bright pulsar wind nebula, is about 950 years old. "It's very rewarding to see how the commitment of ...
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The Structure of the Planets ( 40, Week 2, Oct 1860) – (Book, Chapter 12)
The Nebulae ( 46, Week 4, Nov 1860) – (Book, Chapter 14)
American Telescopes and Astronomers (Vol II 7 ... 's book is illustrated with some of the most remarkable views of the moon, spiral nebulae, and other heavenly bodies. The style in which the work is written is very attractive ...
... . Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Cambridge/S.Allen et al; Optical: NASA/STScI
Guitar Nebula: The pulsar B2224+65 is moving through space very rapidly. Because of its high speed ... is creating a bow shock in its wake. This structure is known as the Guitar Nebula and the likeness of the musical instrument can be seen in the optical data (blue ...
... sensitivity can be developed, and the attempt to detect artificially produced signals from the Andromeda nebula is futile, this may signify that in the regions of the universe nearest us, the ...
... . Chubb, and H. Friedman. The other x-ray source, located near Scorpius in the Crab Nebula, is the remnant of a super stellar explosion that occurred in 1054 A.D., according ...
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