Somewhere in this universe are worlds where you can view, with the naked eye, what Hubble sees from Earth orbit.

Part III

Somewhere in this universe are worlds where you can view, with the naked eye, what Hubble sees from Earth orbit

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These eerie, dark pillar-like structures are columns of cool interstellar hydrogen gas and dust, part of the "Eagle Nebula" M16, a star-forming region 7,000 light-years away. The pillars are in some ways akin to buttes in the desert, where basalt and other dense rock have protected a region from erosion, while the surrounding landscape has been worn away over millennia.
Two Solar System bodies, juxtaposed in space and time, are the planet Venus (foreground) and Europa, one of the Galilean moons of Jupiter. These remarkably clear photos, taken from space crafts that pass within a few hundred thousand miles of their targets, illustrate the importance of unmaned space exploration. (33 KB)

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This image of the Stingray nebula (Hen 1357) shows a ring of gas (green) surrounding the central star, with bubbles of gas to the lower left and upper right of the ring. The wind of material propelled by radiation from the hot central star has created enough pressure to blow open holes in the ends of the bubbles, allowing gas to escape.
NGC 6537 is a bipolar (two-lobed) nebula whose expanding gases reach speeds in excess of 200 miles per second. The expanding lobes encounter older material ejected previously, generating waves, much as do winds passing over a lake. (45 KB)

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Nearly 10,000 stars are seen in this Hubble image. Most belong to the 50 million year old star forming region NGC 1850, with the remainder belonging to a 4 million year old cluster about 200 light years beyond its older neighbor.
Image of planetary nebula NGC 7027 shows remarkable new details of the process by which a star like the Sun dies. (44 KB)

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On July 1, 2004, the space craft Cassini will arrive at Saturn. Unable to reach the planet directly, Cassini will have two Venus fly-bys, one Earth fly-By and one Jupiter fly-by, picking up speed as it passes each planet.
Eta Carinae, site of a supernova about 150 years ago, became one of the brightest stars in the southern sky. The explosion produced two polar lobes and a large, thin equatorial disk, all moving outward at about 1.5 million miles per hour. (43 KB)

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NGC 1068 is located at a distance of approximately 60 million light years, and is the prototype of a class of galaxies known as Seyfert Type 2.
The smooth appearance, lack of obvious large craters, and linear features which criss-cross the surface, suggest that Europa, a Jupiter moon, has undergone a complex tectonic history. (38 KB)
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