Hubble
Speed Demon
A Hypervelocity star in the center of the image. Click for larger. Credit: NASA, ESA, O. Gnedin (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), and W. Brown (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass.)
This is very strange, this star was ejected from our galaxy and is traveling at about 1,600,000 miles per hour — that’s 2,500,000 km/hr !! Of the 16 known hypervelocity stars this is the fastest. To add to the strangeness this star also should have burned out long-long ago but yet we can still see it.
Hubble Confirms Comet-like Tail on Vaporizing Planet
Witness the glorious birth and death of stars
ESA / Hubble / NASA
This Hubble Space Telescope picture captures a brief but beautiful phase late in the life of a star. The curious cloud around this bright star is called IRAS 19475+3119. It lies in the constellation Cygnus about 15,000 light-years from Earth.
Two newly released pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope document the beautiful birth of stars — and a star's equally beautiful death.
Hubble, Bubble, Toil and Star Formation
A colorful star-forming region in NGC 2467. Credit: NASA, ESA and Orsola De Marco (Macquarie University)
Hubble Captures Cosmic Cauldron
The churning clouds of dust and gas in this colorful new Hubble image of star-forming region NGC 2467 speak to the violent, tumultuous youthfulness of the region’s stars. The hot infant stars that were brewed in the cloud are emitting fierce ultraviolet radiation, sculpting and eroding the surrounding gas and making it glow in visible wavelengths.
Dying Star or Beautiful Bird?
Hubble image of IRAS 19475+3119. Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA.
News from around the universe – Live Show 3.23
Robonaut: to the ISS in 2011 and to the moon in 1000 days! Hayabusa may have brought back some asteroid, just, well, not a lot of it. Hubble has caught the birth of a new baby star. Awww, how cute.
Hubble Captures Fireworks in the Starburst Cluster
Hubble Captures Beautiful Baby Stars
Hubble view of the huge star formation region N11 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Credit: NASA, ESA and Jesús Maíz Apellániz (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Spain).
Within the Large Magellenic Cloud is one of the most active star forming regions in our nearby Universe. This new Hubble image highlights N11 – also known as the Bean Nebula — a beautiful region of energetic star formation. The billowing pink clouds that look like cotton candy and bright bubbles of glowing gasses and are telltale signs that stars are being created. Click the image for a larger, hi-res version.
