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*Credit:* NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/ ], ESA [ http://spacetelescope.org/ ], William B. Latter (SIRTF Science Center/California Institute of Technology), John H. Bieging (University of Arizona), Casey Meakin (University of Arizona), A.G.G.M. Tielens (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute), Aditya Dayal (IPAC/NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/ ] Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Joseph L. Hora (Center for Astrophysics), and Douglas M. Kelly (University of Arizona).
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*Description*: The object shown in these NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope images is a remarkable example of a star going through death throes just as it dramatically transforms itself from a normal red giant star into a planetary nebula. This process happens so quickly that such objects are quite rare, even though astronomers believe that most stars like the Sun will eventually go through such a phase. This star, with the prosaic name of OH231.8+4.2, is seen in these infrared pictures blowing...
Topics: OH231.8+4.2, Rotten Egg Nebula, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Sun, What -- FAST,...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1999/39/image/a/
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This artist's animation illustrates a massive asteroid belt in orbit around a star the same age and size as our Sun. Evidence for this possible belt was discovered by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope when it spotted warm dust around the star, presumably from asteroids smashing together. The view starts from outside the belt, where planets like the one shown here might possibly reside, then moves into to the dusty belt itself. A collision between two asteroids is depicted near the end of the...
Topics: What -- Sun, What -- Spitzer Space Telescope, What -- Constellation, What -- Puppis, What -- Venus,...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA07854
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This artist's concept show a massive asteroid belt in orbit around a star the same age and size as our Sun. Evidence for this possible belt was discovered by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope when it spotted warm dust around the star, presumably from asteroids smashing together. The view is from outside the belt, where planets like the one shown in the foreground, might possibly reside. A collision between two asteroids is depicted to the right. Collisions like this replenish the dust in the...
Topics: What -- Sun, What -- Spitzer Space Telescope, What -- Constellation, What -- Puppis, What -- Venus,...
Source: http://sscws1.ipac.caltech.edu/Imagegallery/image.php?image_name=ssc2005-10c
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*Credit:* NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/ ], ESA [ http://www.spacetelescope.org/ ], and K. Noll (STScI [ http://www.stsci.edu/ ]) *Acknowledgment:* The Hubble Heritage [ http://heritage.stsci.edu/ ] Team (STScI [ http://www.stsci.edu/ ]/AURA [ http://www.aura-astronomy.org/ ])
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*Description*: This image, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows the colorful "last hurrah" of a star like our Sun. The star is ending its life by casting off its outer layers of gas, which formed a cocoon around the star's remaining core. Ultraviolet light from the dying star makes the material glow. The burned-out star, called a white dwarf, is the white dot in the center. Our Sun will eventually burn out and shroud itself with stellar debris, but not for another 5 billion...
Topics: NGC 2440, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Sun, What -- Uranus, What -- Neptune, What...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2007/09/image/a/
Puppis A with Scale Bar
Topic: What -- Puppis
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2006/puppisa/more.html
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Violent gas collisions that produced supersonic shock fronts in a dying star are seen in a new, detailed image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The picture, taken by Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, is online at http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/wfpc . The camera was designed and built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Stars like our Sun will eventually die and expel most of their material outward into shells of gas and dust. These shells eventually form some of...
Topics: What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Camera 2, What -- Sun, What -- Earth, What --...
Source: http://nix.ksc.nasa.gov/info?id=PIA04228&orgid=10
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Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: HD 61005 Object Description: Star with Circumstellar Structure Position (J2000): R.A. 07h 35m 47s.46 Dec. -32° 12' 14".04 Constellation: Puppis Distance: 100 light-years or 31 parsecs About the Data Data Description: This image was created from data from the HST proposal 10527: D. Hines (Space Science Institute, New Mexico Office in Corrales, New Mexico). The science team comprises D. Hines (Space Science Institute,...
Topics: What -- Constellation, What -- Puppis, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Planck, What...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2008/01/image/b/
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Violent gas collisions that produced supersonic shock fronts in a dying star are seen in a new, detailed image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The picture, taken by Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2, is online at http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/wfpc . The camera was designed and built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. Stars like our Sun will eventually die and expel most of their material outward into shells of gas and dust. These shells eventually form some of...
Topics: What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Camera 2, What -- Sun, What -- Earth, What --...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA04228
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*Credit:* NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/ ], D. Hines (Space Science Institute, New Mexico Office in Corrales, New Mexico), and G. Schneider (University of Arizona)
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*Description*: These near-infrared images, taken with the Near-Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, show the wing- shaped dust disk surrounding the young, nearby star HD 61005. Astronomers have dubbed the star system "The Moth" because the dust disk resembles the wings of the flying insect. The Moth's wingspan extends about 22 billion miles from the star. The black disk in the center of the images represents the coronagraphic...
Topics: HD 61005, What -- Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS), What --...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2008/01/image/a/
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*Image Credit:* NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/ ] and The Hubble Heritage [ http://heritage.stsci.edu ] Team (AURA [ http://www.aura-astronomy.org/ ]/STScI [ http://www.stsci.edu/ ]).
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*Description*: NGC 2440 is another planetary nebula ejected by a dying star, but it has a much more chaotic structure than NGC 2346. The central star of NGC 2440 is one of the hottest known, with a surface temperature near 200,000 degrees Celsius. The complex structure of the surrounding nebula suggests to some astronomers that there have been periodic oppositely directed outflows from the central star, somewhat similar to that in NGC 2346, but in the case of NGC 2440 these outflows have been...
Topics: NGC 2440, What -- Earth, What -- Constellation, What -- Puppis, What -- Aquila, What -- Visible...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1999/35/image/e/
This sequence of laboratory images shows experimental simulations of the interaction of supernova shock waves with dense interstellar clouds. In these experiments, a strong shock wave sweeps over a vaporized copper ball that has a diameter roughly equal to a human hair. The cloud is compressed, and then expands in about 40 nanoseconds to form an oval bar and cap structure much like that seen in Puppis A. Reference:
Topic: What -- Puppis
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2006/puppisa/more.html
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Some 5,000 light years (2,900 trillion miles) from Earth, in the constellation Puppis, is the 1.4 light years (more than 8 trillion miles) long Calabash Nebula, referred to as the Rotten Egg Nebula because of its sulfur content which would produce an awful odor if one could smell in space. This image of the nebula captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST) depicts violent gas collisions that produced supersonic shock fronts in a dying star. Stars, like our sun, will eventually die and...
Topics: What -- Earth, What -- Constellation, What -- Puppis, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What --...
Source: http://mix.msfc.nasa.gov/abstracts.php?p=2607
This X-ray image from the Roentgensatellite or ROSAT - a joint venture between Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States - may offer a view of a recently formed neutron stars' X-ray glow. Pictured is the supernova remnant Puppis A, one of the brightest sources in the X-ray sky, with shocked gas clouds still expanding and radiating X-rays. A faint pinpoint source of X-rays is visible (white dot near center) which is likely a young neutron star, kicked out by the asymmetric explosion and...
Topics: What -- ROSAT, What -- Puppis, Where -- Germany, Where -- United Kingdom, Where -- United States of...
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2006/puppisa/more.html
A wide-field view of the supernova remnant Puppis A (X-rays from ROSAT, optical data from CTIO) puts the motion of the neutron star RX J0822-4300 into context. The explosion that created the supernova may have been lop-sided, kicking the neutron star in one direction and much of the debris in the other. (Credit: ROSAT: NASA/GSFC/S.Snowden et al.; Optical: NOAO/AURA/NSF/Middlebury College/F.Winkler et al.)
Topics: What -- Puppis, What -- ROSAT
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2007/puppis/more.html
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A new model of oddly shaped debris disks around stars incorporates the drag effect from interstellar gas on the disk's outermost small particles. Far from being empty, the space between stars is filled with patchy clouds of low-density gas. When a star encounters a relatively dense clump of this gas, the resulting flow produces a drag force on orbiting dust particles about one micrometer across, or about the size of particles in smoke. As the dust particles respond to the interstellar wind, a...
Topics: HDTV, Black Hole, What -- Constellation, What -- Puppis
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?10470
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Images of Cosmic Cannonball. MPEG This sequence begins with a wide-field CTIO optical image which then combines with an X-ray image from the ROSAT observatory of Puppis A, the debris field created when a massive star exploded at the end of its life. The next image from Chandra shows the close-up view of the small, dense object, known as a "neutron star", left behind after the explosion. Chandra observations from 1999 and 2005 clearly show that the neutron star has moved over a period...
Topics: What -- ROSAT, What -- Puppis
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2007/puppis/animations.html
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This artist's animation illustrates a massive asteroid belt in orbit around a star the same age and size as our Sun. Evidence for this possible belt was discovered by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope when it spotted warm dust around the star, presumably from asteroids smashing together. The view starts from outside the belt, where planets like the one shown here might possibly reside, then moves into to the dusty belt itself. A collision between two asteroids is depicted near the end of the...
Topics: What -- Sun, What -- Spitzer Space Telescope, What -- Constellation, What -- Puppis, What -- Venus,...
Source: http://sscws1.ipac.caltech.edu/Imagegallery/image.php?image_name=ssc2005-10v1
Animation of Supernova Explosion. MPEG When a massive star explodes, its outer layers are hurtled out into space at thousands of miles an hour and a neutron star is left behind. In the case of Puppis A, astronomers think the explosion that created this supernova remnant kicked the neutron star into motion, eventually ejecting this cosmic cannonball from the Milky Way galaxy. [Runtime: 0:12]
Topics: What -- Puppis, Where -- Milky Way Galaxy
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2007/puppis/animations.html
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This image, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows the colorful "last hurrah" of a star like our Sun. The star is ending its life by casting off its outer layers of gas, which formed a cocoon around the star's remaining core. Ultraviolet light from the dying star makes the material glow. The burned-out star, called a white dwarf, is the white dot in the center. Our Sun will eventually burn out and shroud itself with stellar debris, but not for another 5 billion years. Our Milky...
Topics: What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Sun, What -- Uranus, What -- Neptune, What -- Earth,...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA09194
Chandra's three-color image of a region of Puppis A reveals a cloud being torn apart by a shockwave produced by a supernova explosion. This is the first X-ray detection of such a process in an advanced phase. The blue vertical bar and the blue fuzzy ball or cap to the right show how the cloud has been spread out into an oval-shaped structure that is almost empty in the center. Understanding how shock waves interact with clouds is important for answering key questions such as the role supernovas...
Topic: What -- Puppis
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2006/puppisa/more.html
RX J0822-4300 in Puppis A with Scale Bar
Topic: What -- Puppis
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2007/puppis/more.html
This graphic shows a wide-field view of the Puppis A supernova remnant along with a close-up image of the neutron star, known as RX J0822-4300, that is moving at a blistering pace. The larger field-of-view is a composite of X-ray data from the ROSAT satellite (pink) and optical data (purple), from the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory 0.9-meter telescope, which highlights oxygen emission. Astronomers think Puppis A was created when a massive star ended its life in a supernova explosion...
Topics: What -- Puppis, What -- ROSAT
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2007/puppis/more.html
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Color code: X-ray (Pink); Optical (Purple)
Topic: What -- Puppis
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2007/puppis/index.html
