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THE MAGIC OF HUBBLE THE MAGIC OF HUBBLE Caroline Goode NASA Top Stars 2010
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THE MAGIC OF HUBBLETHE MAGIC OF HUBBLE
Caroline Goode NASA Top Stars 2010
HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE
HST : Working to answer one of the most fundamental questions in science: What is the age and scale of the universe?
Caroline Goode NASA Top Stars 2010
STARSSTARS
A solar storm projects over 1.243 million miles from the solar surface. http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_759.html
Caroline Goode NASA Top Stars 2010
THE PERFECT STORMDISTANCE: 5,500 light years away (2003)Bubbly ocean of hydrogen and small amounts of oxygen, sulfur and other elements
Caroline Goode NASA Top Stars 2010
INFANT STARS IN SMALL MAGELLANIC CLOUD (SMC)
LOCATION: 210,000 light years from EarthThe birth of new stars with the smallest only half the mass of our Sun
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SUPERGIANT STAR V838 MONDISTANCE: 20,000 light years from Earth (2004)LOCATION: OUTER EDGE OF MILKY WAYA RED GIANT-The illumination of interstellar dust comes from the red supergiant star at the middle of the image
Caroline Goode NASA Top Stars 2010
SUPERNOVA SN1987ACosmic "pearls" are being produced from shock waves traveling at more than a million miles per hour during the Supernova explosion in 1987 (2003 image)
Caroline Goode NASA Top Stars 2010
SIRIUS A and SIRIUS BA White Dwarf, Sirius B is the tiny dot at lower left
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THE ANT NEBULALOCATION: Milky Way GalaxyDISTANCE: 3,000-6,000 light years from Earth (2009)Death of a Star Ant’s body appears as a pair of fiery lobes protruding from a dying, Sun-like star
Caroline Goode NASA Top Stars 2010
CAT’S EYE NEBULA
DISTANCE: About 3,300 light years away from Earth (1995)A visual "fossil record" of the dynamics and late evolution of a dying star
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GALAXIESGALAXIES
Black Hole-Powered Spiral Galaxy NGC 7742Caroline Goode NASA Top Stars 2010
INTERACTING SPIRAL GALAXIES
LOCATION: Near Constellation Canis Major (1999)DISTANCE: 80,000,000 Light years from EarthA cosmic dance between two spiral galaxies
Caroline Goode NASA Top Stars 2010
SPIRAL GALAXY M100
LOCATION: Several tens of millions light years from Earth (1994)Helping astronomers to understand how our own galaxy, our start, and our Earth came to be
Caroline Goode NASA Top Stars 2010
SOMBRERO GALAXYDISTANCE: 28 Million Light-Years from Earth (2003)Equivalent to 800 billion suns and 50,000 light years across
Caroline Goode NASA Top Stars 2010
GIANT ELLIPTICAL GALAXY NGC 1316DISTANCE: 75 million light years from Earth (2005)Complex loops and blobs of cosmic dust lie hidden in the giant elliptical galaxy
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IRREGULAR STARRBURST GALAXY M82DISTANCE: 12 million light years from Earth (2006)Fiery-looking plumes of glowing hydrogen blast out of its central regions
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GALAXY CLUSTER MACS J0717DISTANCE: 5.4 billion light years from Earth (2009)
A cosmic “free-for-all”
Caroline Goode NASA Top Stars 2010
PLANETSPLANETS
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MARTIAN METEORITEIron-nickel meteorites like this one are fairly common on Earth but rockier.
Image from Linda Morabito’s Space Place http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=147220&id=286624679900&page=3
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MARS4th planet from the Sun . A dust storm, which measures 930 miles, can be seen in the
middle of the planet. Mars is a terrestrial (earth-like) planet.
http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/solar_system/mars/pr2005034j/hires/true/Caroline Goode NASA Top Stars 2010
ASTROID-VESTA(1997) 3-D computer model from Hubble data, not a true representation of the features. The Astroid Belt is found between the terrestrial and gaseous planets (Mars & Jupiter)
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JUPITER(2008) 5TH planet from the Sun with its moon Ganymede. Jupiter is one of the “gas giants”.
Caroline Goode NASA Top Stars 2010
SATURN(2009) 6TH planet from the Sun. Hubble is a billion miles away capturing Saturn’s rings
Caroline Goode NASA Top Stars 2010
URANUS(2006) 7th planet from the Sun. Ariel, a 700 mile diameter satellite (moon) casting its shadow on the surface.
Caroline Goode NASA Top Stars 2010
NEPTUNE(2002) 8th planet from Sun. Springtime on Neptune with temperatures of minus 400 degrees F at cloud tops and wind gusts up to 900 mph.
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PLUTO(2010) Dwarf planet ~an icy and dark molasses-colored, mottled world
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COMET 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3
(2006) A comet’s break-up as it approaches the Sun
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THE MAGIC OF HUBBLE CONTINUES….
Caroline Goode NASA Top Stars 2010
CREDITS
All images and notes (except the Sun and Mars) were from the NASA/Space
Telescope Institute (STSci) at:http://hubblesite.org/gallery/
Caroline Goode NASA Top Stars 2010
