Todays pic is one another beauty from the Hubble Space Telescope.
Hubble Photographs Turbulent Neighborhood Near Eruptive Star
Dramatic dark dust knots and complex structures are sculpted by the high-velocity stellar winds and high-energy radiation from the ultra-luminous variable star called Eta Carinae. This image shows a region in the Carina Nebula between two large clusters of some of the most massive and hottest known stars. This NASA Hubble Space Telescope close-up view shows only a three light-year-wide portion of the entire Carina Nebula, which has a diameter of over 200 light-years. Taken with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 in July 2002, this color image is a composite of ultraviolet, visible, and infrared filters that have been assigned the colors blue, green, and red, respectively.
This piccy is from the Hubble Heritage site and therefore has lots of different size pictures that are available for download, the other images and a full text write up can be found here. The images range in size, from 16.1KB up to a staggering 2.78MB. For those with broadband, or those 56K'ers who feel brave, the 2.78MB tiff file is well worth downloading.
Credit: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
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29th Nov 03 Courtesy of Garp
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10th Nov 03 Courtesy of Berserker
09th Nov 03 Courtesy of Berserker
08th Nov 03 Courtesy of Berserker
26th Sep 03
24th Sep 03
Hubble Photographs Turbulent Neighborhood Near Eruptive Star
Dramatic dark dust knots and complex structures are sculpted by the high-velocity stellar winds and high-energy radiation from the ultra-luminous variable star called Eta Carinae. This image shows a region in the Carina Nebula between two large clusters of some of the most massive and hottest known stars. This NASA Hubble Space Telescope close-up view shows only a three light-year-wide portion of the entire Carina Nebula, which has a diameter of over 200 light-years. Taken with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 in July 2002, this color image is a composite of ultraviolet, visible, and infrared filters that have been assigned the colors blue, green, and red, respectively.
This piccy is from the Hubble Heritage site and therefore has lots of different size pictures that are available for download, the other images and a full text write up can be found here. The images range in size, from 16.1KB up to a staggering 2.78MB. For those with broadband, or those 56K'ers who feel brave, the 2.78MB tiff file is well worth downloading.
Credit: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Previous Pic Of The Day posts
29th Nov 03 Courtesy of Garp
28th Nov 03
10th Nov 03 Courtesy of Berserker
09th Nov 03 Courtesy of Berserker
08th Nov 03 Courtesy of Berserker
26th Sep 03
24th Sep 03
