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THE MAGIC OF HUBBLE
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HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE
HST : Working to answer one of the most
fundamental questions in science: What is the age
and scale of the universe?
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STARS
A solar storm projects over 1.243 million miles from the solar surface.
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_759.html
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THE PERFECT STORM
DISTANCE: 5,500 light years away (2003)
Bubbly ocean of hydrogen and small amounts of oxygen,
sulfur and other elements
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INFANT STARS IN SMALL MAGELLANIC CLOUD
(SMC)
LOCATION: 210,000 light years from Earth
The birth of new stars with the smallest only half the
mass of our Sun
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SUPERGIANT STAR V838 MON
DISTANCE: 20,000 light years from Earth (2004)
LOCATION: OUTER EDGE OF MILKY WAY
A RED GIANT-The illumination of interstellar dust comes from the red
supergiant star at the middle of the image
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SUPERNOVA SN1987A
Cosmic "pearls" are being produced from shock waves traveling at
more than a million miles per hour during the Supernova explosion in
1987 (2003 image)
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SIRIUS A and SIRIUS B
A White Dwarf, Sirius B is the tiny dot at lower left
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THE ANT NEBULA
LOCATION: Milky Way Galaxy
DISTANCE: 3,000-6,000 light years from Earth (2009)
Death of a Star Ant’s body appears as a pair of fiery lobes protruding from
a dying, Sun-like star
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CAT’S EYE NEBULA
DISTANCE: About 3,300 light years away from Earth (1995)
A visual "fossil record" of the dynamics and late evolution of a dying
star
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GALAXIES
Black Hole-Powered Spiral Galaxy NGC 7742
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INTERACTING SPIRAL GALAXIES
LOCATION: Near Constellation Canis Major (1999)
DISTANCE: 80,000,000 Light years from Earth
A cosmic dance between two spiral galaxies
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SPIRAL GALAXY M100
LOCATION: Several tens of millions light years from Earth (1994)
Helping astronomers to understand how our own galaxy, our start, and
our Earth came to be
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SOMBRERO GALAXY
DISTANCE: 28 Million Light-Years from Earth (2003)
Equivalent to 800 billion suns and 50,000 light years across
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GIANT ELLIPTICAL GALAXY NGC 1316
DISTANCE: 75 million light years from Earth (2005)
Complex loops and blobs of cosmic dust lie hidden in the giant
elliptical galaxy
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IRREGULAR STARRBURST GALAXY M82
DISTANCE: 12 million light years from Earth (2006)
Fiery-looking plumes of glowing hydrogen blast out of its central regions
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GALAXY CLUSTER MACS J0717
DISTANCE: 5.4 billion light years from Earth (2009)
A cosmic “free-for-all”
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PLANETS
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MARTIAN METEORITE
Iron-nickel meteorites like this one are fairly common on Earth but rockier.
Image from Linda Morabito’s Space Place
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MARS
4th planet from the Sun . A dust storm, which measures 930 miles, can be seen in the
middle of the planet. Mars is a terrestrial (earth-like) planet.
http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/solar_system/mars/pr2005034j/hires/true/
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ASTROID-VESTA
(1997) 3-D computer model from Hubble data, not a true
representation of the features. The Astroid Belt is found
between the terrestrial and gaseous planets (Mars & Jupiter)
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JUPITER
(2008) 5TH planet from the Sun with its moon
Ganymede. Jupiter is one of the “gas giants”.
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SATURN
(2009) 6TH planet from the Sun. Hubble is a billion
miles away capturing Saturn’s rings
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URANUS
(2006) 7th planet from the Sun. Ariel, a 700 mile diameter
satellite (moon) casting its shadow on the surface.
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NEPTUNE
(2002) 8th planet from Sun. Springtime on Neptune with
temperatures of minus 400 degrees F at cloud tops and
wind gusts up to 900 mph.
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PLUTO
(2010) Dwarf planet ~an icy and dark
molasses-colored, mottled world
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COMET 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3
(2006) A comet’s break-up as it approaches the
Sun
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THE MAGIC OF HUBBLE CONTINUES….
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CREDITS
All images and notes (except the Sun
and Mars) were from the NASA/Space
Telescope Institute (STSci) at:
http://hubblesite.org/gallery/
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