Tag: formation

NASA’s Spitzer Telescope Captures Cosmic Billiards
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NASA’s Spitzer Telescope Captures Cosmic Billiards

Artist’s impression of cosmic billiards around NGC 2547-ID.  Credit: NASA JPL-CalTech NASA/JPL News Story: August 28, 2014 NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has spotted an eruption of dust around a young star, possibly the result of a smashup between large asteroids. This type of collision can eventually lead to the formation of planets. Scientists had been […]

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A Spectacular Landscape of Star Formation
By 2014.08.22 0 Comments Read More →

A Spectacular Landscape of Star Formation

Another contribution from the European Southern Observatory in Chile. Original Caption: “This image, captured by the Wide Field Imager at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile, shows two dramatic star formation regions in the southern Milky Way. The first is of these, on the left, is dominated by the star cluster NGC 3603, located 20 […]

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