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Happy #Saturday!
This beautiful object is known as the Cat’s Paw Nebula, due to its resemblance to a feline footprint. 🐈
The nebula is within our own galaxy and is about 5,000 lightyears from Earth.
This image was captured by the Spitzer Space Telescope.
(NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Researchers have created a rough map from a pixel-sized image of Earth, suggesting the same technique could be applied to planets orbiting stars beyond our Solar System.
https://t.co/5KNHSqlB6L
Researchers have created a rough map from a pixel-sized image of Earth, suggesting the same technique could be applied to planets orbiting stars beyond our Solar System.
https://t.co/5KNHSqlB6L
The Spitzer Space Telescope views cosmic bubbles in infrared:
https://t.co/oSfkvwWxW3
A speeding star racing through the Galaxy is shedding new light on the workings of the Milky Way
https://t.co/gjaGxzDBBH
A runaway star booted outwards from our central supermassive black hole is shedding new light on our far Earth is located from the centre of the Galaxy.
https://t.co/gjaGxzVd0h
A beautiful view of the field around Wolf–Rayet star WR 22 in the Carina Nebula (right) and the region around star Eta Carinae in the heart of the nebula.
Credit: ESO
An incredible close-up of the star-forming region known as the Tarantula Nebula, courtesy of the Hubble Space Telescope.
Credit: NASA, ESA
Happy Saturday!
Messier 83, also known as the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy. This galaxy is host to numerous supernovae, and may well have a double nucleus at its core.
(NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Acknowledgement: William Blair (Johns Hopkins University))