Space News: Hubble Vision

Supernova Shockwave

This is a photo taken of a shockwave from Supernova 1987A hitting a gas ring from a dying star 20,000 years before the explosion occurred. This supernova is a single light year away, by the Large Magellanic Cloud, a "dwarf galaxy" by the Milky Way. [Gizmodo]

The Bubble Nebula

NGC 7635 is 10 light years in diameter with a violent O-type star in the Bubble's center. This star is several hundred thousand times more luminous and approximately 45 times larger than our Sun, creating harsh stellar winds and intense cosmic radiation. [Gizmodo]

Hubble Detects Mysterious Object

The Hubble discovered P/2010-A2, a mysterious X-shaped object traveling at 11,000 mph in January. NASA says that the object may be a comet [the product of a collision of two asteroids], but in truth, no one has any idea what this object is.

"The weirdest thing, however, is not only the prettyful X-shaped debris pattern, but the fact that its 460-foot-wide nucleus is outside the dust halo and separated from the trail. This behavior is something which has never been seen before in a comet or any other solar-system-swooshing object." [Gizmodo]

... Spaceship?




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