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The Hubble Space Telescope has distinguished itself as the premier source of astronomical images. Amazing HST images have graced the covers of major magazines and newspapers world wide. In recognition of the amazing advances in astronomy and physics which have come from Hubble discoveries, Utah Skies would like to devote a section of this site to share some of them with you. For a more comprehensive listing of Hubble images, checkout the Hubble Heritage Project website.
Blobs in Space: the Legacy of a Nova The prolific number of eruptions by the recurrent nova T Pyxidis has attracted the attention of many telescopes. The image on the left, taken by a ground-based telescope, shows shells of gas around the star that were blown off during several eruptions. Closer inspection by the Hubble Space Telescope (right-hand image), however, reveals that the shells are not smooth at all. In fact, this high-resolution image shows that the shells are actually more than 2,000 gaseous blobs packed into an area that is 1 light-year across. Resembling shrapnel from a shotgun blast, the blobs may have been produced by the nova explosion, the subsequent expansion of gaseous debris, or collisions between fast-moving and slow- moving gas from several eruptions. False color has been applied to this image to enhance details in the blobs. The ground-based image was taken Jan. 19, 1995 by the European Southern Observatory’s New Technology Telescope in La Silla, Chile. The Hubble telescope picture is a compilation of data taken on Feb. 26, 1994, and June 16, Oct. 7, and Nov. 10, 1995, by the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2. T Pyxidis is 6,000 light-years away in the dim southern constellation Pyxis, the Mariner’s Compass. Credit: Credits: Mike Shara, Bob Williams, and David Zurek (Space Telescope Science Institute); Roberto Gilmozzi (European Southern Observatory); Dina Prialnik (Tel Aviv University); and NASA |
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Note: These Archive sections contains all the past HST images which we’ve displayed. As such, it may take some time for the pages to fully render> Enjoy!
