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Heart shapes from space and astronomy pictures. They go with my article "Astronomical Valentines" at http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art53919.asp
The Heart Nebula (IC1805) in the constellation of Cassiopeia, imaged by Daniel Marquardt. It's an emission nebula containing a cluster of hot young stars energizing the surrounding gas and making it glow. ©Mona Evans, “Astronomical Valentines” ©Mona Evans, “Astronomical Valentines” www.bellaonline.c...
Northwestern tip of the South Aral Sea in Central Asia. The white area is a salt plain where the sea has shrunk. Picture taken from space: ESA/NASA Landsat 5 satellite. ©Mona Evans, “Astronomical Valentines” www.bellaonline.c...
The Antennae galaxies are in collision in this Hubble Space Telescope image. As they merge, new stars are forming at a tremendous rate. ©Mona Evans, “Astronomical Valentines” www.bellaonline.c...
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Julien Girard put the heart into this image of the Milky Way using a little flashlight. He drew the heart during the 25-second exposure he took at the Paranal observatory in Chile. ©Mona Evans, “Astronomical Valentines” www.bellaonline.c...
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A crater in the Moon's Galilaei region. Nathanial Burton-Bradford processed it from Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera data. ©Mona Evans, “Astronomical Valentines” www.bellaonline.c...
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This cute little heart is actually 120 m (395 ft) wide. It's a mesa on a crater floor in the Martian southern hemisphere. Courtesy of Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) team. ©Mona Evans, “Astronomical Valentines” www.bellaonline.c...
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The Heart and Soul - two nebulae in Cassiopeia. Hydrogen glows red, energized by young stars in this star-forming region. Together they're about 300 light years across. ©Mona Evans, “Astronomical Valentines” www.bellaonline.c...
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Soul Nebula (IC 1848). Stars are being born here. The infrared image has been colored - red shows heated dust, white and green dense gas clouds. ©Mona Evans, “Astronomical Valentines” www.bellaonline.c...
It looks as though there's a heart shape on the asteroid Eros as the probe NEAR Shoemaker approached. But it was a trick of the light on a triangle of craters around the rim of a shallow depression. The probe went into orbit around Eros on February 14, 2000. ©Mona Evans, “Astronomical Valentines” www.bellaonline.c...
A bright heart-shaped mesa 255 m (279 yds) across in the South Polar region of Mars. The image comes from the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC). ©Mona Evans, “Astronomical Valentines” www.bellaonline.c...
In this picture, taken from NASA's Mars Reconnaissannce Oribter, there is a small impact crater by the tip of the heart. Darker material was blown away, leaving the brighter material that forms the heart. ©Mona Evans, “Astronomical Valentines” www.bellaonline.c...
Mars Orbiter Camera has captured my favorite valentine, actually a pit formed by a collapse on a fault line. Imagine coloring it red and adding some lace! Only to the picture, as the real thing is 2.3 km (1.4 miles) across. ©Mona Evans, “Astronomical Valentines” www.bellaonline.c...
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