The cluster is so massive that its enormous gravitational field deflects light rays causing a phenomenon that magnifies, brightens, and distorts images further away. In the second picture, Eskimo, which is 5,000 light years from Earth, is shown next to a hefty cluster of galaxies in the constellation Draco, 2 billion light years from Earth. Although the bright central “face” resembles a ball of twine, it is actually a bubble of material being blown outward by the central star’s intense “wind”. The hood is, in fact, a ring of comet-shaped objects with their tails streaming away from the central, dying star. Is a Sun-like star nicknamed because it resembles a face surrounded by a fur parka. The part pictured here is 2.5 light years in length (the equivalent of 23 million trips to the Moon). The star, V838 Mon, is located at the outer edge of our Milky Way galaxy, about 20,000 light-years from Earth.ħ) The Cone Nebula is a craggy-looking mountaintop of cold gas and dust, a turbulent place where stars are ever in the process of being born. The illumination of dust comes from the red supergiant star at the middle of the image, which gave off a flashbulb-like pulse of light two years earlier. Did the Lord of the Rings film director base his imagery for The Eye of Sauron on this Cat’s Eye?Ĩ) Starry Night is so named for the way it reminded astronomers of the Van Gogh painting with its spirals of dust swirling across trillions of kilometers of interstellar space. Structurally, it is one of the most complex nebulae known, with photos revealing remarkable structures such as knots, jets and sinewy arc-like features. Its hourglass shape have been created from stellar winds that are weaker in the core or possibly from an unseen companion star and accompanying gravitational effects.ĩ) The Cat’s Eye Nebula is a planetary nebula in the constellation of Draco. The two mingling galaxies began to merge 40 million years ago spurring new star formation.ġ0) The Hourglass Nebula surrounds a dying star 8,000 light years away. The nebula is found within our own galaxy between 3,000 and 6,000 light years from Earth.ġ1) Glowing Eyes The cores of two merging galaxies from 114 million light years away in the distant Canis Major constellation form leering eyes. A nebulae (Latin for “mist” plural form, nebulae) is an interstellar cloud of dust, gas, and plasma, a place where stars form.ġ2) The Ant Nebula, is a cloud of dust and gas (scientific name, Mz3), that resembled an ant to observing scientists on Earth who were using land-based telescopes. Many of the most remarkable photographs focus on nebulae. These are some of the remarkable images photographed since then, especially when utilizing the newer Advanced Camera for Surveys, which makes pictures using ultraviolet wavelengths. The only space telescope designed to be maintained in space by astronauts, a new Wide Field and Planetary Camera was transported to the Hubble via space shuttle two decades ago.
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