Spiral Galaxy M100

Hubble sent back this awesome picture of the M100 Spiral Galaxy.

Source: http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/pr1994002c/

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Supernova 1987A

An impressive image (from Hubble) of the shock wave and trace ring from Supernova 1987a. What you see here is a ring of gas (probably released 20,000 years before the star went nova), as well as a hot ring of material that is left over from the explosion that resulted from the star's death.

Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2010/30/image/a/

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Saturn and 4 Moons

Cassini sent back this snapshot of Saturn and 4 Moons this month. What a great picture!

Source: http://www.ciclops.org/view/6472/Quartet_and_Crescent

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Galactic Collision

62 million light-years from here, you could watch one of the largest scale collisions that occurs in our Universe: 2 Galaxies Colliding.

The Antennae galaxies are shown in this image. It's made from 3 of NASA's great Observatories -- the Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue), the Hubble Space Telescope (gold and brown), and the Spitzer Space Telescope (red).

Much could be said about this image, but I think it's best to let the Universe speak for itself on this one.

Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2010/25/image/a/

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Mystic Mountain

This pillar of dust and gas resembles a massive mountain -- that looks like nothing on Earth. It's located in the Carina Nebula, a stellar nursery, which is about 7,500 light-years away. Radiation and winds of charged particles from newborn stars are shaping and compressing this pillar, causing new stars to form inside it.


Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2010/13/image/a/

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Uranian Moon Titania

The general rule in Moon naming, is that a Planet will be named for a Roman god, and the moon or moons which orbit that Planet would be named for the wives, family, or other counterparts of that god, however, they are given their Greek names.

Rules were made to be broken, though. This is the case with Uranus. The first planet discovered by a Briton (astronomer William Lassell), the moons of Uranus are named for characters from Shakespearian plays. And this is how Titania earned her name. Titania is the queen of the fairies in Shakespeare's “A Midsummer Night's Dream”.


Voyager 2 snapped this photo of Titania on it's way out of the Solar System on January 24th, 1986.

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Supernova 1994D

Far away, long ago, a star exploded. Supernova 1994D, visible as the bright spot on the lower left, occurred in the outskirts of disk galaxy NGC 4526.


Source1: http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/the_universe/pr1999019i/npp/all/titles/true/
Source2: http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap981230.html

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