What Did Hubble See On Your Birthday?

[Katie M]

What Did Hubble See on Your Birthday?

On September 25 in 2005
Galaxy NGC 1132
The large elliptical galaxy NGC 1132 likely formed from a group of galaxies that merged together. The galaxy is dubbed a "fossil group" because it contains enormous concentrations of dark matter, comparable to the dark matter found in an entire group of galaxies.

Space is awesome

 

[Lari]

On July 22 in 2006
Protostar IRAS 20324+4057
This caterpillar-shaped knot, called IRAS 20324+4057, is a protostar that is in the process of growing from the dust and gas surrounding it. However, other bright stars are blasting ultraviolet radiation at this "wanna-be" star and sculpting the gas and dust into its long shape.

That's pretty cool looking.

 

[Silver Crazy]

What they saw. 05/02


What they didn't want you to see.

 

[MoochNNoodles]

Oooo this is fun! I'm going to have to show my kids tomorrow!

 

[mani]

1997
Interacting Galaxies
AM 0500-620 includes a pair of galaxies, with one spiral galaxy seen nearly face-on that is partially backlit by a background galaxy. These interacting galaxies are located 350 million light-years away in the constellation Dorado.

 

[Mia6]

September 22 2002

GOODS South Field
More than 12 billion years of cosmic history are shown in this panoramic view of thousands of galaxies in various stages of assembly. The view covers a portion of the southern field of a galaxy census called the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS).

 

[denice]

Brown Dwarf Candidate CHXR 73 B
The bright spot at lower right is a suspected brown dwarf, an object bigger than a planet but smaller than a star. Named CHXR 73 B, it orbits a red dwarf star dubbed CHXR 73, which is much less massive than the Sun.

 

[Norachan]

March 8th .Einstein rings

 

[AbbysMom]

Mars -

 

[Jem]

The red spots of Jupiter.
This image captures three red spots in Jupiter's atmosphere. The famous Great Red Spot appears on the right, while "Red Spot Jr." is to the lower left and an even smaller "baby red spot" appears at left.

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[scarlettleia]

On May 25 in 2001
Galaxy NGC 4622
This image shows the spiral galaxy NGC 4622. Its outer pair of winding arms is full of new stars, clumped together in blue clusters. Strangely, the galaxy appears to be rotating clockwise, the opposite direction to what astronomers expected



Pretty!