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The Glowing Eye of NGC 6751163 viewsAstronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have obtained images of the strikingly unusual planetary nebula, NGC 6751. Glowing in the constellation Aquila like a giant eye, the nebula is a cloud of gas ejected several thousand years ago from the hot star visible in its center. The Hubble observations were obtained in 1998 with the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) by a team of astronomers led by Arsen Hajian of the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, DC. The Hubble Heritage team, working at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, has prepared this color rendition by combining the Hajian team's WFPC2 images taken through three different color filters that isolate nebular gases of different temperatures. The nebula shows several remarkable and poorly understood features. Blue regions mark the hottest glowing gas, which forms a roughly circular ring around the central stellar remnant. Orange and red show the locations of cooler gas. The cool gas tends to lie in long streamers pointing away from the central star, and in a surrounding, tattered-looking ring at the outer edge of the nebula. The origin of these cooler clouds within the nebula is still uncertain, but the streamers are clear evidence that their shapes are affected by radiation and stellar winds from the hot star at the center.
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Olympus Mons225 viewsJul 02, 2006
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Meade ETX125-PE94 viewsJul 02, 2006
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Comet Hale-Bopp93 viewsJul 02, 2006
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Messier 7071 viewsJul 02, 2006
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Dusty Spiral Galaxy119 viewsHubble Space Telescope Jul 02, 2006
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Keith & Ping - Admin99 viewsTaken in Singpore - Great country, crap fro viewing the night sky though!Jul 02, 2006
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Mars240 viewsJul 02, 2006
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