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VLT takes a close look at the War and Peace Nebula
Deep in the Milky Way in the constellation of Scorpius (The Scorpion) lies the War and Peace Nebula, or NGC 6357, a region of space where new stars are being born in of chaotic clouds of gas and dust....
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Reflection Nebula Messier 78
This new image of the reflection nebula Messier 78 was captured using the Wide Field Imager camera on the MPG/ESO 2,2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory, Chile. This colour picture was...
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Orion Nebula
This new image of the Orion Nebula was captured using the Wide Field Imager camera on the MPG/ESO 2,2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory, Chile. This image is a composite of several exposures...
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Cosmic photo album: Somewhere out there
Just in case you had begun to suspect that we humans were important, or been tempted to regard our planet as rather special in the cosmic scheme of things, we thought we’d publish a photo feature that...
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Orion Nebula
In one of the most detailed astronomical images ever produced, Nasa’s Hubble Space Telescope captured an unprecedented look at the Orion Nebula. This turbulent star formation region is one of...
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Helix Nebula
Will our Sun look like this one day? The Helix Nebula is the closest example of a planetary nebula created at the end of the life of a sun-like star. The outer gasses of the star expelled into space...
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Retina Nebula
Like many other so-called planetary nebulas, IC 4406 - a dying star dubbed ”Retina Nebula” - exhibits a high degree of symmetry; the left and right halves of the Hubble image are nearly mirror images...
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Crab Nebula
This Hubble image shows the most detailed view so far of the entire Crab Nebula. The Crab Nebula is one of the most intricately structured and highly dynamical objects ever observed, as well as one of...
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Cat’s Eye Nebula
Staring across interstellar space, the alluring Cat’s Eye nebula lies three thousand light-years from Earth. A classic planetary nebula, the Cat’s Eye (NGC 6543) represents a final, brief yet glorious...
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Emission Nebula
Clouds of glowing hydrogen gas mingle ominously with dark dust lanes in this close-up of IC 1396, an active star-forming region some 2 000 light-years away in the constellation Cepheus. In this and...
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