New pictures released from recently upgraded Hubble Space Telescope show amazing new detail within the spectacular Carina Nebula. This image was taken in both visible light and near infrared light. As you can see near the center of the image are two energetic jets spewing matter out of the pillar.
As the days begin to get shorter and the air gets crisper, it is a great time to get outside to look at the Fall Constellations. The Fall Constellation chart above will help you identify some of my favorite constellations in the Northern Hemisphere. Fall makes for the best constellation viewing. While the atmosphere is not quite as clear as it is in the winter, it’s an awful lot warmer!
This week, Nasa released images of Crater Erlanger. Normally, a picture of a crater on the moon is a big snoozer, but this one could be special. Since this crater is located near the north pole of the moon and the moon’s axis is only tilted by 1.5 degrees, the sun’s rays never reach the bottom.
Today’s post will focus on images of galaxies. As we’ve discussed before, galaxies are collections of stars, dust, gas, pulsars, quasars, magnatars, and other cosmic bodies all bound together by their common gravity. The image above is the Andromeda Galaxy.
This 2009 Perseid Meteor Shower Review was compiled by the staff writers here at Outer Space Universe. There’s been a lot of news this year about the fact that the Earth was going to be passing through the remnant trail of Comet Swift-Tuttle with the extra bonus that we would slam into a filament of dust spun from the comet during it’s last journey around the sun. That was enough for us to stock up on our favorite guarana laden beverage and forgo the REM sleep our bodies so desperately want.