The “Mystic Mountain” (infrared view) | Hubble
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Monday, August 01, 2022
The “Mystic Mountain” (infrared view) | Hubble
Wide View of “Mystic Mountain” | Hubble
Wide View of “Mystic Mountain” | Hubble
This turbulent cosmic pinnacle lies within a tempestuous stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula, located 7,500 light-years away in the southern constellation of Carina. The image marks the 20th anniversary of Hubble's launch and deployment into Earth orbit.
Scorching radiation and fast winds (streams of charged particles) from hot newborn stars in the nebula are shaping and compressing the pillar, causing new stars to form within it. Streamers of hot ionized gas can be seen flowing off the ridges of the structure, and wispy veils of dust, illuminated by starlight, float around its peaks. The pillar is resisting being eroded by radiation.
Nestled inside this dense mountain are fledgling stars. Long streamers of gas can be seen shooting in opposite directions from the pedestal at the top of the image. Another pair of jets is visible at another peak near the center of the image. These jets are the signpost for new starbirth. The jets are launched by swirling discs around the stars, as these discs allow material to slowly accrete onto the stellar surfaces.
Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 observed the pillar on February 1-2, 2010. The colors in this composite image correspond to the glow of oxygen (blue), hydrogen and nitrogen (green), and sulphur (red).
Credit: NASA, European Space Agency and M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
Release Date: April 23, 2010
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Mystic Mountain of The Carina Nebula: Visible & Infrared Light | Hubble
Mystic Mountain of The Carina Nebula: Visible & Infrared Light | Hubble
Herbig Haro 901 is an immense pillar of gas and dust inside the Carina Nebula, a huge star-forming region in our galaxy. The pillar is several light-years tall and contains a few massive young stars. They shoot out powerful jets that emerge from the cloud. In some cases, the jets create bow-shock patterns similar to the effects of a ship plowing through the ocean.
In the visible-light view, very few stars can be seen because the gas and dust block starlight. However, in the infrared view, stars become visible and numerous. The visible-light colors emerge from the glow of different gases: oxygen (blue), hydrogen/nitrogen (green), and sulfur (red). The Carina Nebula is approximately 7,500 light years from Earth.
Video: NASA, European Space Agency, and G. Bacon/Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)
Image Credit: NASA, European Space Agency, and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team (STScI)
Duration: 36 seconds
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The Importance of Her Star Trek Role: Celebrating Nichelle Nichols (1932-2022)
The Importance of Her Star Trek Role: Celebrating Nichelle Nichols (1932-2022)
Listen to Nichelle Nichols describe how one of her biggest fans encouraged her to remain on Star Trek after its first season on television. Nichelle Nichols, who broke barriers for Black women in Hollywood when she played communications officer Lieutenant Uhura on the original “Star Trek” TV series, passed away on July 30, 2022, at the age of 89.
Credit: ReelBlack YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/user/reelblack
Duration: 2 minutes, 29 seconds
Release Date: July 31, 2022
The “Mystic Mountain” in Carina | Hubble
The “Mystic Mountain” in Carina | Hubble
This turbulent cosmic pinnacle lies within a tempestuous stellar nursery called the Carina Nebula, located 7,500 light-years away in the southern constellation of Carina. This image celebrated the 20th anniversary of Hubble's launch and deployment into an orbit around the Earth in 2010.
Scorching radiation and fast winds (streams of charged particles) from super-hot newborn stars in the nebula are shaping and compressing the pillar, causing new stars to form within it. Streamers of hot ionized gas can be seen flowing off the ridges of the structure, and wispy veils of gas and dust, illuminated by starlight, float around its towering peaks. The denser parts of the pillar are resisting being eroded by radiation.
Nestled inside this dense mountain are fledgling stars. Long streamers of gas can be seen shooting in opposite directions from the pedestal at the top of the image. Another pair of jets is visible at another peak near the center of the image. These jets, (known as HH 901 and HH 902, respectively, are signposts for new star birth and are launched by swirling gas and dust discs around the young stars, which allow material to slowly accrete onto the stellar surfaces.
Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 observed the pillar on February 1-2, 2010. The colors in this composite image correspond to the glow of oxygen (blue), hydrogen and nitrogen (green), and sulphur (red).
Credit: NASA, European Space Agency, M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team (STScI)
Release Date: April 23, 2010
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The Golden Era to Study Stellar Births | ESO
The Golden Era to Study Stellar Births | ESO
Stars form when clouds of cold gas collapse. The energetic radiation from newly born stars will heat and ionize the surrounding remaining gas. The ionized gas will shine, acting as a beacon of ongoing star formation. In this stunning and jewel-like image, this glowing gas can be seen as the whirlpool of gold: the direct traces of stars being born.
The golden glow is a result of combining observations taken at different wavelengths of light with the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile. Here gas clouds of ionized oxygen, hydrogen and sulphur are shown in blue, green and red, respectively. The observations are done as part of the Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby GalaxieS (PHANGS) project, aiming to reveal nearby galaxies across all wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/PHANGS
Release Date: August 1, 2022
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Star-Studded Skyfield | Hubble
Star-Studded Skyfield | Hubble
Hubble revolutionized the study of globular clusters, as it is almost impossible to clearly distinguish the stars in globular clusters with ground-based telescopes. The blurring caused by Earth’s atmosphere makes it impossible to tell one star from another, but from Hubble’s location in low Earth orbit the atmosphere no longer poses a problem. As a result, Hubble has been used to study what kind of stars globular clusters are made up of, how they evolve, and the role of gravity in these dense systems.
The NASA/ESA/Canadian Space Agency James Webb Space Telescope will further our understanding of globular clusters by peering into those globular clusters that are currently obscured by dust. Webb will predominantly observe at infrared wavelengths, which are less affected by the gas and dust surrounding newborn stars. This will allow astronomers to inspect star clusters that are freshly formed, providing insights into stellar populations before they have a chance to evolve.
Credit: European Space Agency/Hubble & NASA, R. Cohen
Release Date: August 1, 2022
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Sunday, July 31, 2022
Nichelle Nichols: Woman on a NASA Mission (1932-2022)
Honoring Nichelle Nichols: Woman on a NASA Mission (1932-2022)
NASA celebrates the life and career of Nichelle Nichols, famous for her role of Lieutenant Uhura on Star Trek. Nichelle passed away on July 30, 2022. This video tribute was produced before her death.
Not only did Nichols portray a character that was an incredible role model, but in 1977, she also partnered with NASA to recruit minority and female personnel for the space agency's shuttle program.
Nichols symbolized to so many what was possible and inspired young minds to pursue science, technology, engineering, and mathematics careers.
Video Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Video Producer: Sonnet Apple
Music: Universal Production Music
Duration: 3 minutes, 21 seconds
Release Date: December 4, 2021
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Exploring The Carina Nebula with Laser Optics | European Southern Observatory
Exploring The Carina Nebula with Laser Optics | European Southern Observatory
Among the largest nebulae in the southern night sky, the Carina Nebula is a perfect viewing target for the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). In this image, the nebula appears as a stunning pink cloud in the clear sky above ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile, home of the VLT. The Carina Nebula is a vast cloud of dust and gas—this gas is ionized and made to glow by the stars within the nebula itself.
The cutting-edge Adaptive Optics Facility installed on one of the 8.2-meter Unit Telescopes (UTs) of the VLT is in full operation here. The orange laser beams are sent from the UTs into the Earth's atmosphere where they excite sodium particles, causing them to glow. This creates artificial ‘stars’ that can be used to measure the blurring effects caused by Earth’s atmosphere, which are then corrected by the telescope.
Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/G. Hüdepohl
Release Date: November 9, 2020
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A Wider View of The Carina Nebula | ESO
A Wider View of The Carina Nebula (infrared) | ESO
This wider coverage area reveals even more stars from the crowded neighborhood surrounding the Carina Nebula. Captured by VISTA, the world’s largest infrared survey telescope, we witness the dramatic evolution of this living stellar city, where stars form and perish side by side.
Credit: European Southern Observatory/J. Emerson/M. Irwin/J. Lewis
Release Date: August 29, 2018
The Carina Nebula & Our Galaxy's Brightest Star: Eta Carinae | ESO
The Carina Nebula & Our Galaxy's Brightest Star: Eta Carinae | ESO
Being brighter than one million Suns, Eta Carinae (the brightest star in this image) is the most luminous star known in the Galaxy, and has most likely a mass over 100 times that of the Sun. It is the closest example of a luminous blue variable, the last phase in the life of a very massive star before it explodes in a fiery supernova. Eta Carinae is surrounded by an expanding bipolar cloud of dust and gas known as the Homunculus ('little man' in Latin), which astronomers believe was expelled from the star during a great outburst seen in 1843.
Credit: European Southern Observatory / IDA / Danish 1.5 m/R.Gendler, J-E. Ovaldsen, C. Thöne, and C. Feron
Release Date: December 3, 2009
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The Carina Nebula's Hidden Secrets Revealed (infrared) | ESO
The Carina Nebula's Hidden Secrets Revealed (infrared) | ESO
Credit: European Southern Observatory/T. Preibisch
Release Date: February 8, 2012
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The Cool Clouds of Carina | APEX Telescope
The Cool Clouds of Carina | APEX Telescope
Observations made with the APEX telescope in submillimeter-wavelength light at a wavelength of 870 µm reveal the cold dusty clouds from which stars form in the Carina Nebula. This site of violent star formation, which plays host to some of the highest-mass stars in our galaxy, is an ideal arena in which to study the interactions between these young stars and their parent molecular clouds.
The APEX observations, made with its LABOCA camera, are shown here in orange tones, combined with a visible light image from the Curtis Schmidt telescope at the Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory. The result is a dramatic, wide-field picture that provides a spectacular view of Carina’s star formation sites. The nebula contains stars equivalent to over 25,000 Suns, and the total mass of gas and dust clouds is that of about 140,000 Suns.
Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)/APEX/T. Preibisch et al. (Submillimetre); N. Smith, University of Minnesota /NOAO / AURA / NSF (Optical)
Release Date: November 16, 2011
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The Wolf–Rayet Star WR 22 in The Carina Nebula | ESO
The Wolf–Rayet Star WR 22 in The Carina Nebula | ESO
This image of part of the Carina Nebula was created from images taken through red, green and blue filters with the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at the European Southern Observatory’s La Silla Observatory in Chile. It is centered on the unusual hot massive young star Wolf–Rayet (WR) 22, a member of the rare class of Wolf–Rayet stars. The field of view is 0.55 x 0.55 degrees, covering a 72 x 72 light-year region at the distance of the nebula.
Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)
Release Date: July 28, 2010
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A Tour of The Carina Nebula (wide-field) | European Southern Observatory
A Tour of The Carina Nebula (wide-field) | European Southern Observatory
Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)
Release Date: February 12, 2009
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The Carina Nebula | VLT Survey Telescope
The Carina Nebula | VLT Survey Telescope
The spectacular star-forming Carina Nebula has been captured in great detail by the VLT Survey Telescope at the European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory. This picture was taken with the help of Sebastián Piñera, President of Chile, during his visit to the observatory on June 5, 2012, and released on the occasion of the new telescope’s inauguration in Naples on December 6, 2012.
Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)
Acknowledgement: VPHAS+ Consortium / Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit
Release Date: December 6, 2012
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