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UPDATE—Well, that’s kind of weird. ESO has never pulled down a video after I’ve linked to it. Here’s to astronomical eye candy as a replacement, a Hubble Treasury of Galaxies—
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NGC 7424
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The Glowing Night Sky
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The Medusa Nebula
ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile captured this image of the Medusa Nebula (also known Abell 21 and Sharpless 2-274). As the star at the heart of this nebula made its final transition into the final stage of its existence, it blew off its outer layers into space, forming this colorful cloud. The Sun will go through a similar process in a few billion years.
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NGC 3981
NGC 3981 is a spiral galaxy 62 million light-years away in the constellation of Crater.[5] It was discovered in 1785 by William Herschel. It’s a member of the NGC 4038 Group of galaxies which is in turn part of the Virgo Supercluster.
Image Credit: ESO
HH 46/47
This picture was assembled from combined observations from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and ESO’s Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile. It reveals the throes of stellar birth in an object known as HH 46/47.
HH or Herbig-Haro objects form when particle jets shot out by newborn stars collide with surrounding matter, producing small, bright, nebulous regions. The dynamics within many HH objects are obscured from observation with visible light by the enveloping gas and dust, but the infrared and submillimeter light seen by Spitzer and ALMA, respectively, cuts through the cloud around HH 46/47. (Infrared light has longer wavelengths than what we see with our eyes, and submillimeter wavelengths are longer still.)
In this false-color image the shorter-wavelength light appears blue and longer-wavelength light, red. Blue shows gas energized by the outflowing jets. Green traces a combination of hydrogen gas molecules and dust that follows the boundary of the gas cloud surrounding the young star. The red areas are excited carbon monoxide gas.
Image Credit: NASA / ESO
NGC 3981
Video Credit: ESO
