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Feb 20, 2010
02/10
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Sculptor Joseph Anthony Atchison discusses the Goddard bust with Mrs. Esther Goddard. Unveiled at the Goddard dedication ceremony in 1961, the completed bust is now on display in the lobby of Building 8.
Topic: What -- Sculptor
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/50th/sculpture-bust.jpg.html
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Sep 21, 2009
09/09
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NASA
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Technical facts about this news release: Back to entire collection [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/index/529/ ] Next release [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1995/03/ ] Previous release [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1995/01/ ] What is an American Astronomical Society Meeting release? A major news announcement issued at an American Astronomical Society meeting, the premier astronomy conference. A rare and spectacular head-on collision...
Topics: What -- Earth, What -- Constellation, What -- Sculptor
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1995/02/image/c/
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Sep 21, 2009
09/09
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NASA
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Technical facts about this news release: Back to entire collection [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/index/529/ ] Next release [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1995/03/ ] Previous release [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1995/01/ ] What is an American Astronomical Society Meeting release? A major news announcement issued at an American Astronomical Society meeting, the premier astronomy conference. A rare and spectacular head-on collision...
Topics: What -- Earth, What -- Constellation, What -- Sculptor
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1995/02/image/b/
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Sep 21, 2009
09/09
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NASA
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Technical facts about this news release: Back to entire collection [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/index/529/ ] Next release [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1995/03/ ] Previous release [ http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1995/01/ ] What is an American Astronomical Society Meeting release? A major news announcement issued at an American Astronomical Society meeting, the premier astronomy conference. A rare and spectacular head-on collision...
Topics: What -- Earth, What -- Constellation, What -- Sculptor
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1995/02/image/d/
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Sep 21, 2009
09/09
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*Credit:* J. Gitlin (Space Telescope Science Institute), and NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/ ]
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*Description*: This artist's illustration offers a "window seat" view of comet-like clouds of gas racing through the heart of the Cartwheel galaxy at 700,000 mph. The large orange and yellow pancake-like object is the galaxy's core, and the white streaks along its edges are the comet-like objects. The objects probably were spawned by a collision between high-speed and slow-moving material. The "heads" are a few hundred light-years across; the tails are several thousand...
Topics: Cartwheel Galaxy, What -- Constellation, What -- Sculptor
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1996/36/image/c/
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Nov 19, 2009
11/09
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NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center
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In a ceremony honoring Dr. Wernher von Braun, who served as Marshall Space Flight Center Director from 1960 to 1970, Marshall officials renamed the 4200 Building Complex as the Wernher von Braun Office Complex and unveiled a bust of the former director. This photograph is a close-up of the bust in the courtyard. The sculptor of the bust is a MSFC employee, Jack Hood.
Topics: What -- Sculptor, Where -- Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)
Source: http://mix.msfc.nasa.gov/abstracts.php?p=1487
This image of the Cartwheel Galaxy was taken by the Spitzer Space Telescope in 8 micron infrared. The Cartwheel is part of a group of galaxies about 400 million light years away in the constellation Sculptor [ http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/constellations/sculptor.html ]. (Credit: NASA/JPL/Caltech/P.Appleton et al.)
Topics: What -- Spitzer Space Telescope, What -- Constellation, What -- Sculptor
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2006/cartwheel/more.html
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Nov 19, 2009
11/09
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NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center
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In a ceremony honoring Dr. Wernher von Braun, who served as Marshall Space Flight Center Director from 1960 to 1970, Marshall officials renamed the 4200 Building Complex as the Wernher von Braun Office Complex and unveiled a bust of the former director. This photograph is a close-up of the bust in the courtyard. The sculptor of the bust is a MSFC employee, Jack Hood.
Topics: What -- Sculptor, Where -- Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)
Source: http://mix.msfc.nasa.gov/abstracts.php?p=1486
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Nov 19, 2009
11/09
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NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center
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In a ceremony honoring Dr. Wernher von Braun, who served as Marshall Space Flight Center Director from 1960 to 1970, Marshall officials renamed the 4200 Building Complex as the Wernher von Braun Office Complex and unveiled a bust of the former director. This photograph is a close-up of the bust in the courtyard. The sculptor of the bust is a MSFC employee, Jack Hood.
Topics: What -- Sculptor, Where -- Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)
Source: http://mix.msfc.nasa.gov/abstracts.php?p=966
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Oct 6, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Kennicutt (University of Arizona) and the SINGS Team
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Galaxy NGC 7793, located approximately 10 million light-years away, is a member of the Sculptor group of galaxies. This galaxy cluster, named after the constellation in which it resides, is one of the closest to our own Local Group of galaxies. This image was captured as part of the Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxy Survey (SINGS) Legacy Project using the telescope's Infrared Array Camera (IRAC). As the "glowing" red emission maps out, Spitzer is able to pierce through dense clouds of...
Topics: What -- Sculptor, What -- Constellation, What -- Infrared Array Camera (IRAC)
Source: http://sscws1.ipac.caltech.edu/Imagegallery/image.php?image_name=sig05-017
This image of the Cartwheel Galaxy was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in blue band visible light. The Cartwheel is part of a group of galaxies about 400 million light years away in the constellation Sculptor [ http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/constellations/sculptor.html ]. (Credit: NASA/STScI)
Topics: What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Visible Light, What -- Constellation, What -- Sculptor
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2006/cartwheel/more.html
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Nov 21, 2010
11/10
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NASA
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ECN-33298-03 This image shows a plastic 1/48-scale model of an F-18 aircraft inside the ''Water Tunnel'' more formally known as the NASA Dryden Flow Visualization Facility. Water is pumped through the tunnel in the direction of normal airflow over the aircraft; then, colored dyes are pumped through tubes with needle valves. The dyes flow back along the airframe and over the airfoils highlighting their aerodynamic characteristics. The aircraft can also be moved through its pitch axis to observe...
Topics: What -- Sculptor, Where -- Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC), Where -- Ames Research Center (ARC)
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/363106main_ECN-33298-03_full.jpg
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Nov 21, 2010
11/10
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NASA
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ECN-33298-47 This image shows a plastic 1/48-scale model of an F-18 aircraft inside the ''Water Tunnel'' more formally known as the NASA Dryden Flow Visualization Facility. Water is pumped through the tunnel in the direction of normal airflow over the aircraft; then, colored dyes are pumped through tubes with needle valves. The dyes flow back along the airframe and over the airfoils highlighting their aerodynamic characteristics. The aircraft can also be moved through its pitch axis to observe...
Topics: What -- Sculptor, Where -- Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC), Where -- Ames Research Center (ARC)
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/363130main_ECN-33298-47_full.jpg
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Sep 23, 2009
09/09
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NASA/Dryden Flight Research Center (NASA-DFRC)
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This image shows a plastic 1/48-scale model of an F-18 aircraft inside the "Water Tunnel" more formally known as the NASA Dryden Flow Visualization Facility. Water is pumped through the tunnel in the direction of normal airflow over the aircraft; then, colored dyes are pumped through tubes with needle valves. The dyes flow back along the airframe and over the airfoils highlighting their aerodynamic characteristics. The aircraft can also be moved through its pitch axis to observe...
Topics: What -- Sculptor, Where -- Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC), Where -- Ames Research Center (ARC)
Source: http://nix.ksc.nasa.gov/info?id=ECN-33298-36&orgid=7
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Nov 21, 2010
11/10
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NASA
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ECN-33298-36 This image shows a plastic 1/48-scale model of an F-18 aircraft inside the ''Water Tunnel'' more formally known as the NASA Dryden Flow Visualization Facility. Water is pumped through the tunnel in the direction of normal airflow over the aircraft; then, colored dyes are pumped through tubes with needle valves. The dyes flow back along the airframe and over the airfoils highlighting their aerodynamic characteristics. The aircraft can also be moved through its pitch axis to observe...
Topics: What -- Sculptor, Where -- Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC), Where -- Ames Research Center (ARC)
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/363118main_ECN-33298-36_full.jpg
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Sep 22, 2009
09/09
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NASA/Dryden Flight Research Center (NASA-DFRC)
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This short movie clip shows a plastic 1/48-scale model of an F-18 aircraft inside the "Water Tunnel" more formally known as the NASA Dryden Flow Visualization Facility. Water is pumped through the tunnel in the direction of normal airflow over the aircraft; then, colored dyes are pumped through tubes with needle valves. The dyes flow back along the airframe and over the airfoils highlighting their aerodynamic characteristics. The aircraft can also be moved through its pitch axis to...
Topics: What -- Sculptor, Where -- Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC), Where -- Ames Research Center (ARC)
Source: http://nix.ksc.nasa.gov/info?id=EM-0045-01&orgid=7
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Sep 17, 2009
09/09
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NASA
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Two new Cassini views of Saturn's tumbling moon Hyperion offer the best looks yet at one of the icy, irregularly-shaped moons that orbit the giant, ringed planet. The image products released today include a movie sequence and a 3D view, and are available at http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov [ http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov ], http://www.nasa.gov/cassini [ http://www.nasa.gov/cassini ] and http://ciclops.org [ http://ciclops.org ]. The views were acquired between June 9 and June 11, 2005 , during Cassini's...
Topics: Solar System Exploration, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Planets, What -- Cassini, What -- Moon, What...
Source: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/multimedia/display.cfm?IM_ID=4003
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Sep 23, 2009
09/09
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NASA/Dryden Flight Research Center (NASA-DFRC)
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This image shows a plastic 1/48-scale model of an F-18 aircraft inside the "Water Tunnel" more formally known as the NASA Dryden Flow Visualization Facility. Water is pumped through the tunnel in the direction of normal airflow over the aircraft; then, colored dyes are pumped through tubes with needle valves. The dyes flow back along the airframe and over the airfoils highlighting their aerodynamic characteristics. The aircraft can also be moved through its pitch axis to observe...
Topics: What -- Sculptor, Where -- Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC), Where -- Ames Research Center (ARC)
Source: http://nix.ksc.nasa.gov/info?id=ECN-33298-03&orgid=7
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Sep 21, 2009
09/09
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*Credit:* Curt Struck and Philip Appleton (Iowa State University), Kirk Borne (Hughes STX Corporation), and Ray Lucas (Space Telescope Science Institute), and NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/ ]
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*Description*: Researchers analyzing the Hubble Space Telescope's dramatic pictures of the Cartwheel galaxy have discovered immense comet-like clouds of gas speeding through the heart of the galaxy at nearly 700,000 mph. Located 500 million light-years away in the constellation Sculptor, the galaxy looks like a wagon wheel. The galaxy's nucleus is the bright object in the center of the image; the spoke-like structures are wisps of material connecting the nucleus to the outer ring of young...
Topics: Cartwheel Galaxy, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Constellation, What -- Sculptor,...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1996/36/image/a/
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Sep 23, 2009
09/09
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NASA/Dryden Flight Research Center (NASA-DFRC)
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This image shows a plastic 1/48-scale model of an F-18 aircraft inside the "Water Tunnel" more formally known as the NASA Dryden Flow Visualization Facility. Water is pumped through the tunnel in the direction of normal airflow over the aircraft; then, colored dyes are pumped through tubes with needle valves. The dyes flow back along the airframe and over the airfoils highlighting their aerodynamic characteristics. The aircraft can also be moved through its pitch axis to observe...
Topics: What -- Sculptor, Where -- Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC), Where -- Ames Research Center (ARC)
Source: http://nix.ksc.nasa.gov/info?id=ECN-33298-47&orgid=7
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51
Sep 21, 2009
09/09
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NASA
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Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: NGC 300 Object Description: Spiral Galaxy Position (J2000): R.A. 00h 54m 53.5s Dec. ?37° 40' 59" Constellation: Sculptor Distance: 6.5 million light-years (2 Megaparsecs) Dimensions: This image is 3 arcminutes (5,700 light-years or 1,700 parsecs) wide. About the Data Data Description: These data are from the HST program 9492: F. Bresolin and R.-P. Kudritzki (Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii) and W. Gieren...
Topics: What -- Constellation, What -- Sculptor, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), Where -- NGC 300,...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2004/13/image/d/
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Sep 21, 2009
09/09
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NASA
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Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: NGC 300 Object Description: Spiral Galaxy Position (J2000): R.A. 00h 54m 53.5s Dec. ?37° 40' 59" Constellation: Sculptor Distance: 6.5 million light-years (2 Megaparsecs) Dimensions: This image is 3 arcminutes (5,700 light-years or 1,700 parsecs) wide. About the Data Data Description: These data are from the HST program 9492: F. Bresolin and R.-P. Kudritzki (Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii) and W. Gieren...
Topics: What -- Constellation, What -- Sculptor, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), Where -- NGC 300,...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2004/13/image/c/
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Sep 21, 2009
09/09
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NASA
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Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: NGC 300 Object Description: Spiral Galaxy Position (J2000): R.A. 00h 54m 53.5s Dec. ?37° 40' 59" Constellation: Sculptor Distance: 6.5 million light-years (2 Megaparsecs) Dimensions: This image is 3 arcminutes (5,700 light-years or 1,700 parsecs) wide. About the Data Data Description: These data are from the HST program 9492: F. Bresolin and R.-P. Kudritzki (Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii) and W. Gieren...
Topics: What -- Constellation, What -- Sculptor, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), Where -- NGC 300,...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2004/13/image/b/
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Oct 14, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL-Caltech
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Sometimes, the best way to understand how something works is to take it apart. The same is true for galaxies like NGC 300, which NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has divided into its various parts. NGC 300 is a face-on spiral galaxy located 7.5 million light-years away in the southern constellation Sculptor. This false-color image taken by the infrared array camera on Spitzer readily distinguishes the main star component of the galaxy (blue) from its dusty spiral arms (red). The star distribution...
Topics: What -- Spitzer Space Telescope, What -- Constellation, What -- Sculptor, What -- Infrared Array...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA05879
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51
Oct 6, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL-Caltech/G. Helou (Caltech)
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Sometimes, the best way to understand how something works is to take it apart. The same is true for galaxies like NGC 300, which NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has divided into its various parts. NGC 300 is a face-on spiral galaxy located 7.5 million light-years away in the southern constellation Sculptor. This false-color image taken by the infrared array camera on Spitzer readily distinguishes the main star component of the galaxy (blue) from its dusty spiral arms (red). The star distribution...
Topics: What -- Spitzer Space Telescope, What -- Constellation, What -- Sculptor, What -- Infrared Array...
Source: http://sscws1.ipac.caltech.edu/Imagegallery/image.php?image_name=ssc2004-07b
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Oct 14, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL/California Institute of Technology
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This image of the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 300 was taken by Galaxy Evolution Explorer in a single orbit exposure of 27 minutes on October 10, 2003. NGC 300 lies 7 million light years from our Milky Way galaxy and is one of a group of galaxies in the constellation Sculptor. NGC 300 is often used as a prototype of a spiral galaxy because in optical images it displays flowing spiral arms and a bright central region of older (and thus redder) stars. The Galaxy Evolution Explorer image taken in...
Topics: What -- Galaxy Evolution Explorer, What -- Explorer, What -- Constellation, What -- Sculptor, Where...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA04924
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Nov 3, 2009
11/09
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NASA/Caltech-JPL
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<i>Silver Dollar Galaxy: NGC 253 (figure 1)</i> Located 10 million light-years away in the southern constellation Sculptor, the Silver Dollar galaxy, or NGC 253, is one of the brightest spiral galaxies in the night sky. In this edge-on view from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer, the wisps of blue represent relatively dustless areas of the galaxy that are actively forming stars. Areas of the galaxy with a soft golden glow indicate regions where the far-ultraviolet is...
Topics: What -- Galaxy Evolution Explorer, What -- Constellation, What -- Sculptor, What -- Explorer, What...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA08646
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Sep 21, 2009
09/09
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*Credit:* Duccio Macchetto (ESA [ http://spacetelescope.org/ ]/STScI [ http://www.stsci.edu/ ]), Mauro Giavalisco (STScI [ http://www.stsci.edu/ ]), and NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/ ]
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*Description*: [left] This image of a small region of the constellation Sculptor, taken with a ground-based photographic sky survey camera, illustrates the extremely small angular size of a distant galaxy cluster in the night sky. Though this picture encompasses a piece of the sky about the width of the bowl of the Big Dipper, the cluster is so far away it fills a sky area only 1/10th the diameter of the Full Moon. The cluster members are not visible because they are so much fainter than...
Topics: Q0000-263, What -- Constellation, What -- Sculptor, What -- Camera 2, What -- Moon, What -- Hubble...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1994/52/image/b/
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Oct 14, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL-Caltech/OCIW
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This color composite image of nearby NGC 300 combines the visible-light pictures from Carnegie Institution of Washington's 100-inch telescope at Las Campanas Observatory (colored red and yellow), with ultraviolet views from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer. Galaxy Evolution Explorer detectors image far ultraviolet light (colored blue). This composite image traces star formation in progress. Young hot blue stars dominate the outer spiral arms of the galaxy, while the older stars congregate in...
Topics: What -- Visible Light, What -- Launch Abort System (LAS), What -- Galaxy Evolution Explorer, What...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA07828
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Sep 21, 2009
09/09
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*Animation Credit:* NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/ ], Z. Levay and G. Bacon (STScI [ http://www.stsci.edu/ ])
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*Description*:> Zoom from the Digitized Sky Survey of the spiral galaxy NGC 300 and dissolve into the Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys image of a section of the galaxy. Technical facts about this news release: About the Object Object Name: NGC 300 Object Description: Spiral Galaxy Position (J2000): R.A. 00h 54m 53.5s Dec. ?37° 40' 59" Constellation: Sculptor Distance: 6.5 million light-years (2 Megaparsecs) Dimensions: This image is 3 arcminutes (5,700 light-years or 1,700 parsecs)...
Topics: What -- Advanced Camera for Surveys, What -- Constellation, What -- Sculptor, What -- Hubble Space...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2004/13/video/a/
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Sep 23, 2009
09/09
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NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA-JPL)
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This Magellan image mosaic shows the impact crater Golubkina, first identified in Soviet Venera 15/16 data. The crater is named after Anna Golubkina (1864-1927), a Soviet sculptor. The crater is about 34 kilometers (20.4 miles) across, similar to the size of the West Clearwater impact structure in Canada. The crater Golubkina is located at about 60.5 degrees north latitude, 286.7 degrees east longitude. Magellan data reveal that Golubkina has many characteristics typical of craters formed by a...
Topics: What -- Magellan, What -- Crater, What -- Venera 15, What -- Sculptor, What -- Earth, What -- Deep...
Source: http://nix.ksc.nasa.gov/info?id=PIA00236&orgid=10
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Sep 21, 2009
09/09
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*Left Credit:* Jay Gallagher (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Alan Watson (Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ), and NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/ ] *Right Credit:* Carnegie Institution of Washington
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*Description*: [Left] An image of the spiral galaxy NGC 253, taken with a ground-based telescope. The galaxy is located about 8 million light-years away in the constellation Sculptor. [Right] This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the core of the nearest starburst spiral galaxy, NGC 253, reveals violent star formation within a region 1,000 light-years across. A starburst galaxy has an exceptionally high rate of star birth, first identified by its excess of infrared radiation from warm dust....
Topics: NGC 253, What -- Constellation, What -- Sculptor, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What --...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1995/10/image/a/
Photographer : JPL This Magellan image mosaic shows the impact crater Golubkina, first identified in Soviet Venera 15/16 data. The crater is names after Anna Golubkina (1864-1927), a Soviet sculptor. The crater is about 34 km (20.4 mi.) across, similar to the size of the West Clearwater impact structure in Canada. The crater Golubkina is located at about 60.5 degrees north latitude, 286.7 degrees est longitude. Magellan data reveal that Golubkina has many characteristics typical of craters...
Topics: What -- Magellan, What -- Crater, What -- Venera 15, What -- Sculptor, What -- Earth, What -- Deep...
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Oct 15, 2009
10/09
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NASA
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This Magellan image mosaic shows the impact crater Golubkina, first identified in Soviet Venera 15/16 data. The crater is named after Anna Golubkina (1864-1927), a Soviet sculptor. The crater is about 34 kilometers (20.4 miles) across, similar to the size of the West Clearwater impact structure in Canada. The crater Golubkina is located at about 60.5 degrees north latitude, 286.7 degrees east longitude. Magellan data reveal that Golubkina has many characteristics typical of craters formed by a...
Topics: What -- Magellan, What -- Crater, What -- Venera 15, What -- Sculptor, What -- Earth, What -- Deep...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA00236
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Oct 14, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
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Prometheus zooms across the Cassini spacecraft's field of view, attended by faint streamers and deep gores in the F ring. This movie sequence of five images shows the F ring shepherd moon shaping the ring's inner edge. Note that the faint ringlet coincident with the orbit of Prometheus (102 kilometers, or 63 miles across) decreases sharply in brightness behind the moon in its path. The normally twisted-looking F ring core is overexposed in the images, causing its appearance to be more uniform...
Topics: What -- Cassini, What -- Moon, What -- Visible Light, What -- Saturn, What -- Sun, What -- Huygens...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA08262
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Sep 21, 2009
09/09
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*Credit:* The Hubble images were taken by Curt Struck and Philip Appleton (Iowa State University), Kirk Borne (Hughes STX Corporation), and Ray Lucas (Space Telescope Science Institute), and NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/ ]. The VLA radio telescope image was taken by Jim Higdon (Australia Telescope National Facility's Paul Wild Observatory. The VLA is operated by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, a National Science Foundation facility that is operated under cooperative agreement by...
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*Description*: Researchers analyzing the Hubble Space Telescope's dramatic images of the Cartwheel galaxy have discovered immense comet-like clouds of gas speeding at nearly 700,000 mph through the galaxy's core. [Image on left] - The Cartwheel is part of a group of four galaxies, as shown in this collage of images from ground-based optical and radio telescopes and the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. Located 500 million light-years away in the constellation Sculptor,...
Topics: Cartwheel Galaxy, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Camera 2, What -- Constellation,...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1996/36/image/b/
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365
Oct 15, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute
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Quick Time Movie for PIA06243 Cassini's First Close Brush with Hyperion (Animation) This movie sequence provides the record of Cassini's first close brush with Hyperion, Saturn's chaotically tumbling moon. As the spacecraft whizzes past, Hyperion's unusual shape is most apparent. The jagged outlines are indicators of large impacts chipping away at Hyperion's shape as a sculptor does to marble. Hyperion's unusual dimensions are 328 by 260 by 214 kilometers (204 by 162 by 132 miles). These...
Topics: What -- Moon, What -- Sculptor, What -- Cassini, What -- Saturn, What -- Iapetus, What -- Titan,...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA06243
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Sep 21, 2009
09/09
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*Acknowledgment:* F. Bresolin (Institute for Astronomy, U. Hawaii) and the Digitized Sky Survey *Image Credit:* NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/ ], ESA [ http://spacetelescope.org/ ], 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*: Myriads of stars embedded in the heart of the nearby galaxy NGC 300 can be singled out like grains of sand on a beach in this Hubble Space Telescope image. The Hubble telescope's exquisite resolution enables it to see the stars as individual points of light, despite the fact that the galaxy is millions of light-years away. NGC 300 is a spiral galaxy similar to our own Milky Way galaxy. It is a member of a nearby group of galaxies known as the Sculptor group, named for the...
Topics: NGC 300, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Sculptor, What -- Constellation, What --...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2004/13/image/e/
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Nov 2, 2009
11/09
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Mimas, seen here beyond Saturn's rings, is a major sculptor of Saturn's rings. The 398-kilometer-wide (247-mile-wide) moon not only maintains the Cassini Division (not seen here), a gap wide enough to be visible from Earth through a small telescope, but it is also responsible for two of the thin, bright bands visible in this image near the rings' center, interior to the dark Encke Gap. Knots in the thin, twisted F ring also are easily visible here. The image was taken in visible light with the...
Topics: What -- Mimas, What -- Sculptor, What -- Moon, What -- Cassini, What -- Visible Light, What --...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA06509
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Sep 21, 2009
09/09
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*Credit:* Kirk Borne (STScI [ http://www.stsci.edu/ ]), and NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/ ]
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*Description*: [Right] - A rare and spectacular head-on collision between two galaxies appears in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope true-color image of the Cartwheel Galaxy, located 500 million light-years away in the constellation Sculptor. The new details of star birth resolved by Hubble provide an opportunity to study how extremely massive stars are born in large fragmented gas clouds. The striking ring-like feature is a direct result of a smaller intruder galaxy ? possibly one of two objects...
Topics: Cartwheel Galaxy, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Constellation, What -- Sculptor,...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/1995/02/image/a/
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Oct 14, 2009
10/09
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NASA/JPL/Arizona State University
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(Released 13 April 2002) The Science The so called "Face on Mars" can be seen slightly above center and to the right in this THEMIS visible image. This 3-km long knob, located near 10 N, 40 W (320 E), was first imaged by the Viking spacecraft in the 1970's and was seen by some to resemble a face carved into the rocks of Mars. Since that time the Mars Orbiter Camera on the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft has provided detailed views of this hill that clearly show that it is a normal...
Topics: What -- Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter (MGS), What -- THEMIS, What -- Viking, What -- Surveyor, What...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA03768
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Sep 22, 2009
09/09
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*Credit:* NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/ ], ESA [ http://www.spacetelescope.org/ ], and K. Borne (STScI [ http://www.stsci.edu/ ])
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*Description*: A rare and spectacular head-on collision between two galaxies appears in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope true-color image of the Cartwheel Galaxy, located 500 million light-years away in the constellation Sculptor. The new details of star birth resolved by Hubble provide an opportunity to study how extremely massive stars are born in large fragmented gas clouds. The striking ring-like feature is a direct result of a smaller intruder galaxy _Ôø___Ôø__ possibly one of two...
Topics: Cartwheel Galaxy, ESO 350-40, AM0035-335, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What --...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2007/17/image/d/
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Sep 22, 2009
09/09
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*Credit:* NASA [ http://www.nasa.gov/ ], ESA [ http://www.spacetelescope.org/ ], and J. -P. Kneib (Laboratorie d'Astrophysique de Marseille)
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*Description*: NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, in collaboration with several other ground- and space- based telescopes, has captured a galaxy being ripped apart by a galaxy cluster's gravitational field and harsh environment. The finding sheds light on the mysterious process by which gas-rich spiral-shaped galaxies might evolve into gas-poor irregular- or elliptical-shaped galaxies over billions of years. The new observations also reveal one mechanism for forming the millions of...
Topics: Abell 2667, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Moon, What -- Sun, What -- Earth, What --...
Source: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2007/12/image/a/
