Showing posts with label OMEGA CENTAURI. Show all posts
Showing posts with label OMEGA CENTAURI. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

THE STELLAR MOTION OF OMEGA CENTAURI

FROM: NASA
Zooming in on Omega Centauri Stellar Motion



This movie sequence begins with a ground-based image of the giant globular star cluster Omega Centauri and zooms very tightly in to a Hubble Space Telescope image of the central region of the cluster. In a simulation based on Hubble data, the stars appear to be moving in random directions, like a swarm of bees

Monday, November 5, 2012

GALACTIC COLLISION VIDEO FROM NASA

FROM: NASASpacecraft Image Mashup Shows Galactic Collision



This new composite image from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope, and the Spitzer Space Telescope shows two colliding galaxies more than a 100 million years after they first impacted each other. The continuing collision of the Antennae galaxies, located about 62 million light years from Earth, has triggered the formation of millions of stars in clouds of dusts and gas

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