Hi jingle52
Maybe you meant to post two different web-sites? I have enjoyed looking at the one you posted.
I also learned somethings as well!
I recognize some of the eclipse pics. too!
I notice that the Star clusters pics show one cluster named Hyades almost looking like Haydes!! Not a name I’d choose to be my avatar!
The nebula pics are some of my favorites! Those dust clouds in space are enormous! The galaxy pics are breathtaking too!
The new avatar I now have has some information that I am happy to say, for me, has a few parallels, as I see it,
to our Forum of hot stars here and the beautiful light shining through!
Mat 5:16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) – ESA/Hubble Collaboration
This new image taken with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope depicts bright, blue, newly formed stars that are blowing a cavity in the center of a star-forming region in the Small Magellanic Cloud.
At the heart of the star-forming region, lies star cluster NGC 602. The high-energy radiation blazing out from the hot young stars is sculpting the inner edge of the outer portions of the nebula, slowly eroding it away and eating into the material beyond. The diffuse outer reaches of the nebula prevent the energetic outflows from streaming away from the cluster.
Ridges of dust and gaseous filaments are seen towards the northwest (in the upper-left part of the image) and towards the southeast (in the lower right-hand corner). Elephant trunk-like dust pillars point towards the hot blue stars and are tell-tale signs of their eroding effect. In this region it is possible with Hubble to trace how the star formation started at the center of the cluster and propagated outward, with the youngest stars still forming today along the dust ridges.
The Small Magellanic Cloud, in the constellation Tucana, is roughly 200,000 light-years from the Earth. Its proximity to us makes it an exceptional laboratory to perform in-depth studies of star formation processes and their evolution in an environment slightly different from our own Milky Way.
Dwarf galaxies such as the Small Magellanic Cloud, with significantly fewer stars compared to our own galaxy, are considered to be the primitive building blocks of larger galaxies. The study of star formation within this dwarf galaxy is particularly interesting to astronomers because its primitive nature means that it lacks a large percentage of the heavier elements that are forged in successive generations of stars through nuclear fusion.
These observations were taken with Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys in July 2004.
Filters that isolate visible and infrared light were combined with a filter that samples the hydrogen and nitrogen emission from the glowing clouds.How did we get to 200,00 light-years from the Earth birth of a Hummingbird?? Wow jingle52 ~ you have some serious star power!
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