Tag: nebula

Emissions Nebula Image From ESO

Emissions Nebula Image From ESO

  Another stunner from the European Southern Observatory From the ESO Description: “LHA 120-N55, or N55 as it is usually known, is a glowing gas cloud in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way located about 163 000 light-years away. N55 is situated inside a supergiant shell, or superbubble called […]

Deep Space Eye Candy From the European Southern Observatory

Deep Space Eye Candy From the European Southern Observatory

From the European Southern Observatory: “In this huge new image clouds of crimson gas are illuminated by rare, massive stars that have only recently ignited and are still buried deep in thick dust clouds. These scorching-hot, very young stars are only fleeting characters on the cosmic stage and their origins remain mysterious. The vast nebula […]

A Glowing Red Nebula and Uranus Seen Through Saturn’s Rings

A Glowing Red Nebula and Uranus Seen Through Saturn’s Rings

Image Credit: ESO The European Southern Observatory at La Silla released this image of a glowing hydrogen cloud, or nebula, Gum 41. The glow is caused by the searing radiation emitted by young, very hot stars which excites the hydrogen gas left over from star formation. This nebula is in the constellation Centaurus in the […]

ESO Presents : “A Drop of Ink in a Luminous Sky”

ESO Presents : “A Drop of Ink in a Luminous Sky”

After a week  which began with a North Korean nuclear test and ended with a meteor strike over the skies of Russia which NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory now estimates released nearly 500 kilotons of energy,  followed by a near miss with a much larger asteroid why not start off a new week with something a little less ominous,  perhaps another stunning image from the […]

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