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This video zooms in on the emission and reflection nebula IC 63—nicknamed the Ghost Nebula—about 550 light-years away. It starts with a view of the night sky as seen from the ground. It then zooms through observations from the Digitized Sky Survey 2, and ends with a view of the nebula obtained with the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope.
Credit: Hubble, Digitized Sky Survey 2, N. Risinger
IC 63—nicknamed the Ghost Nebula—is about 550 light-years from Earth. The nebula is classified as both a reflection nebula—as it is reflecting the light of a nearby star—and as an emission nebula—as it releases hydrogen-alpha radiation. Both effects are caused by the gigantic star Gamma Cassiopeiae. The radiation of this star is also slowly causing the nebula to dissipate.
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 training reel with NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada, as well as Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina. The Crew-5 crew is training for their long-duration mission to the International Space Station.
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Hubblecast 86: This Hubblecast explores the wings of Twin Jet Nebula which were observed and studied by the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope. The elongated form of this planetary nebula is caused by two stars in its center, orbiting each other.
Distance:4,000 light years in the constellation Ophiuchus
Credit: European Space Agency (ESA)
Directed by: Mathias Jäger
Visual design and editing: Martin Kornmesser
Written by: Mathias Jäger, Nicky Jenner, Georgia Bladon
Narration: Sara Mendes da Costa
Images: NASA, ESA/Hubble
Videos: NASA, ESA/Hubble, NASA Goodard Space Flight Center
Animations: Martin Kornmesser, Luis Calcada, NASA, ESA/Hubble
Music: Stan Dart (www.stan-dart.com)
Web and technical support: Mathias Andre and Raquel Yumi Shida
This video pans over NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope observations of the Twin Jet Nebula. The elongated form of this planetary nebula is caused by two stars in its center, orbiting each other.
Distance:4,000 light years in the constellation Ophiuchus
This video begins with a ground-based view of the night sky, before zooming in on the Twin Jet Nebula, a bipolar planetary nebula, as the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope sees it.
The Twin Jet Nebula, or PN M2-9, is a striking example of a bipolar planetary nebula. Bipolar planetary nebulae are formed when the central object is not a single star, but a binary system, Studies have shown that the nebula’s size increases with time, and measurements of this rate of increase suggest that the stellar outburst that formed the lobes occurred just 1200 years ago.
Distance:4,000 light years in the constellation Ophiuchus
This image from the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope depicts NGC 7027, or the “Jewel Bug” nebula.
The object had been slowly puffing away its mass in quiet, spherically symmetric or perhaps spiral patterns for centuries—until relatively recently when it produced a new cloverleaf pattern.
NGC 7027 is located around 3,000 light-years (920 parsecs) from Earth in the constellation Cygnus.
New observations of the object have found unprecedented levels of complexity and rapid changes in the jets and gas bubbles blasting off of the star at the centre of the nebula.
Credit: NASA, European Space Agency, and J. Kastner (RIT)
This video zooms into the planetary nebula NGC 7027, also known as the Jewel Bug Nebula.
The object had been slowly puffing away its mass in quiet, spherically symmetric or perhaps spiral patterns for centuries—until relatively recently when it produced a new cloverleaf pattern.
NGC 7027 is located around 3,000 light-years (920 parsecs) from Earth in the constellation Cygnus.
Credit: European Space Agency/Hubble, Risinger, Digitized Sky Survey 2, L. Calcada
This image from the NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope depicts NGC 7027, or the “Jewel Bug” nebula. The object had been slowly puffing away its mass in quiet, spherically symmetric or perhaps spiral patterns for centuries—until relatively recently when it produced a new cloverleaf pattern.
NGC 7027 is located around 3,000 light-years (920 parsecs) from Earth in the constellation Cygnus.
New observations of the object have found unprecedented levels of complexity and rapid changes in the jets and gas bubbles blasting off of the star at the center of the nebula.
Credit: NASA, European Space Agency, and J. Kastner (RIT)
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Looking like an elegant abstract art piece painted by talented hands, this picture is actually a NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope image of a small section of the Carina Nebula. Part of this huge nebula was documented in the well-known Mystic Mountain picture and this picture takes an even closer look at another piece of this bizarre astronomical landscape.
The Carina Nebula itself is a star-forming region about 7,500 light-years from Earth in the southern constellation of Carina (The Keel: part of Jason’s ship the Argo). Infant stars blaze with a ferocity so severe that the radiation emitted carves away at the surrounding gas, sculpting it into strange structures. The dust clumps towards the upper right of the image, looking like ink dropped into milk, were formed in this way. It has been suggested that they are cocoons for newly forming stars.
The Carina Nebula is mostly made from hydrogen, but there are other elements present, such as oxygen and sulphur. This provides evidence that the nebula is at least partly formed from the remnants of earlier generations of stars where most elements heavier than helium were synthesized.
The brightest stars in the image are not actually part of the Carina Nebula. They are much closer to us, essentially being the foreground to the Carina Nebula’s background.
This picture was created from images taken with Hubble’s Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. Images through a blue filter (F450W) were colored blue and images through a yellow/orange filter (F606W) were colored red. The field of view is 2.4 by 1.3 arcminutes.
This short sequence zooms in on the open young cluster of stars, Trumpler 14, of the Carina Nebula. One of the largest gatherings of hot, massive and bright stars in the Milky Way, this cluster houses some of the most luminous stars in our entire galaxy.
Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO), DSS, European Space Agency/Hubble, Risinger
Dazzling Diamond-like Stars of Trumpler 14 | Hubble
This NASA/European Space Agency Hubble Space Telescope image features the star cluster Trumpler 14. One of the largest gatherings of hot, massive and bright stars in the Milky Way, this cluster houses some of the most luminous stars in our entire galaxy.
The prominent dark patch, close to the center of the cluster is a so called Bok globule: this is an isolated and relatively small dark nebula, containing dense dust and gas. These objects are still subjects of intense research as their structure and density remains somewhat a mystery.
Credit: NASA & European Space Agency, Jesús Maíz Apellániz (Centro de Astrobiología, CSIC-INTA, Spain)
WR 25 and Tr16-244, at the bottom of the image, are located within the open cluster Trumpler 16. This cluster is embedded within the Carina Nebula, an immense cauldron of gas and dust that lies approximately 7,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Carina, the Keel. At the top of the image, a peculiar nebula with the shape of a "defiant" finger points towards WR25 and Tr16-244.
Credit: NASA, European Space Agency and Jesús Maíz Apellániz (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Spain)
The image shows a pair of colossal stars, WR 25 and Tr16-244, located within the open cluster Trumpler 16. This cluster is embedded within the Carina Nebula, an immense cauldron of gas and dust that lies approximately 7,500 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Carina, the Keel. WR 25 is the brightest, situated near the center of the image. The neighboring Tr16-244 is the third brightest, just to the upper left of WR 25. The second brightest, to the left of WR 25, is a low mass star located much closer to the Earth than the Carina Nebula.
Credit: NASA, European Space Agency and Jesús Maíz Apellániz (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Spain)
