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Westerlund 2
A Hubble Space Telescope image of the cluster Westerlund 2 and the surrounding nebula.
Credit: NASA/ESA
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Article illustration
Neutron star interior illustration I had a chance to create for Quanta magazine last month.
You can read the article here.
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Bubble Nebula by Hubble Heritage
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For the 26th birthday of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers are highlighting a Hubble image of an enormous bubble being blown into space by a super-hot, massive star. The Hubble image of the Bubble Nebula, or NGC 7635, was chosen to mark the 26th anniversary of the launch of Hubble into Earth orbit by the STS-31 space shuttle crew on April 24, 1990. The Bubble Nebula is 7 light-years across — about one-and-a-half times the distance from our sun to its nearest stellar neighbor, Alpha Centauri. The Bubble Nebula was discovered in 1787 by William Herschel, a prominent British astronomer. It is being formed by a prototypical Wolf-Rayet star, an extremely bright, massive, and short-lived star that has lost most of its outer hydrogen and is now fusing helium into heavier elements. The star is about 4 million years old, and in 10 million to 20 million years, it will likely detonate as a supernova.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) heritage.stsci.edu/2016/13/hubbledev.stsci.edu/newscenter/archive/releases/2016/13/
The Partial Solar Eclipse of March 20th 2015 by Josh Dury
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Cracked Rock 360 by Luke Busellato
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27 image 360 degree pano Canon 6D Samyang 14mm f2.8 30s, iso3200
Stormy seas in Sagittarius by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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Some of the most breathtaking views in the Universe are created by nebulae — hot, glowing clouds of gas. This new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the centre of the Lagoon Nebula, an object with a deceptively tranquil name. The region is filled with intense winds from hot stars, churning funnels of gas, and energetic star formation, all embedded within an intricate haze of gas and pitch-dark dust.
I want to expand AstronomyNerd into other social media platforms. Ideas are:
- Etsy (I do love to craft, it’d be astronomy related products!)
- Periscope
Or if you nerds use any other type of sites, let me know! What do you think I should expand to?
