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The Enigmatic Eagle
The Eagle Nebula is one of the most well known regions in the universe having been snapped many times over the years by several telescopes including Hubble. The latest images of the region come from...
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NGC 2467 – Recovered
The Hubble Space telescope has given us a new insight in to the star forming region NGC 2467. NGC 2467 Credit: NASA, ESA and Orsola De Marco (Macquarie University) For a full size image click here The...
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Image of the Week – Hubble’s Birthday Treat – 17/04/12
In celebration of the Hubble Space Telescope’s 22nd anniversary the ESA has released this truly stunning image of the star forming region 30 Doradus. 30 Doradus Credit: NASA, ESA, ESO, D. Lennon and E....
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What is a Nebula? – Updated
A nebula is a cloud of dust and gas found within the interstellar medium filling the great voids between the stars within galaxies and star clusters. The different types of nebula consist of different...
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Image of the Week – Orion’s Dusty Belt – 10/05/2012
The ESO has recently released this truly stunning image of the nebula M78 Messier 78 Credit: ESO/APEX (MPIfR/ESO/OSO)/T. Stanke et al./Igor Chekalin/Digitized Sky Survey 2 The nebula sits just north of...
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Image of the Week – A Stellar Hiccup – 08/07/2012
This week’s image is of Herbig-Haro 110 – HH110 HH110 Credit: NASA/ESA/HST Herbig-Haro objects are jets of hot gas and dust produced during the formation of new stars. The developing star sucks...
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The Burning Heart of the Stars – Part 1
Here at the Young Astronomers we have looked in some detail at stars, the various types that exist as well as their spectra. This short series of posts will deal with what processes occur to power the...
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Image of the Week – A Superb Superbubble – 08/09/2012
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory (along with optical data provided by the ESO and infra-red data supplied by the Spitzer space telescope) has produced a truly amazing image of the star cluster NGC 1929...
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Image of the Week – A Peculiar Pencil – 18/09/2012
The ESO has released a stunning image of the nebula NGC 2736 better known to many as the Pencil Nebula The Pencil Nebula – NGC 2736 Credit: ESO The nebula is the brightest component of the much larger...
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A Heavenly Veil – Updated
This truly stunning image of the Eastern Veil SNR was released at the very end of 2010 by the Issac Newton Group of Telescopes. NGC 6992 Credit: A. Oscoz, D. López, P. Rodríguez-Gil and L. Chinarro The...
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