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V838 Monocerotis -- Among the largest known stars. It's currently experiencing a mysterious major outburst. First detected in 2002 and only 20,000 light years away!
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A composite Chandra X-ray (blue) and Palomar infrared (red and green) image of the supernova remnant W49B reveals a barrel-shaped nebula
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A 'Rose' Made of Galaxies In celebration of the twenty-first anniversary of the Hubble Space Telescope's deployment in April 2011, astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute pointed Hubble's eye to an especially photogenic group of interacting galaxies called Arp 273. The larger of the spiral galaxies, known as UGC 1810, has a disk that is tidally distorted into a rose-like shape by the gravitational tidal pull of the companion galaxy below it, known as UGC 1813. A swath of blue jewels across the top is the combined light from clusters of intensely bright and hot young blue stars. These massive stars glow fiercely in ultraviolet light. The smaller, nearly edge-on companion shows distinct signs of intense star formation at its nucleus, perhaps triggered by the encounter with the companion galaxy. A series of uncommon spiral patterns in the large galaxy is a tell-tale sign of interaction. The large, outer arm appears partially as a ring, a feature seen when interacting galaxies actually pass through one another. This suggests that the smaller companion actually dived deep, but off-center, through UGC 1810. The inner set of spiral arms is highly warped out of the plane with one of the arms going behind the bulge and coming back out the other side. How these two spiral patterns connect is still not precisely known.
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NGC 6611, an open star cluster that formed about 5.5 million years ago and is found approximately 6500 light-years from the Earth
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the beach
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Renee Floyd I wish I were there
Joyce Van Waeleghem Whitsundays?
Tonya Earnhardt What beach is this
Kurt Evans It's a mystery.
Pamela Stacks Brindley Is this Sannibel Island, FL? Beautiful!!!
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Jeanna Duke Does anyone know where this is?