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Dec 06 2008

Pictures from space!

Published by missjennalynn at 6:00 pm under Science Edit This

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Carina Nebula - breathtaking I think! Nebulae are basically stars in their first stages. So you see the formation of dust clouds, plasma and hydrogen gas (which makes our stars!) so these are interstellar clouds. So pretty.

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Sagittarius constellation - this is my wifey’s constellation and it this constellation has the most planetary host stars with 14 stars having planets. <3

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Leo constellation - this is MY star sign but unfortunately I could not find a very good picture of my constellation. It does have the Wolf 359 which is one of the nearest stars to the Earth only 7.7 light years away :P I thought that was pretty neat.

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M83 galaxy - this is a spiral galaxy and I always look at this picture because one of my favorite bands is called, M83, obviously named after this galaxy.  This galaxy is… 15 million light years away, YIKES! It is one of the oldest discovered galaxies, 1752 by Nicolas de Lacaille.

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Orion nebula - this is one of my favoriteeeee nebulae! It’s like abstract art in the sky. You know, I love these pictures so much because it’s astonishing that all of these pictures… are in our universe, and they’re so beautiful. You can visibly see this nebula from a telescope, it’s one of the brightest in the sky and it’s located in the constellation of Orion’s belt.

 

 

 

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