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Big Dipper Here's the constellation known as the Big Dipper, one of the few constellations I actually can find in the real sky.		01/10/2009	389

Gravity Lens - 1 object seen as 2 QSO 0957+561 was the first object ever to be identified as a gravitational lens in space. It’s a single quasar, located some 8 billion light-years from Earth. But it looks like two quasars, due to the presence of an gigantic mass located in space between Earth and the quasar. The intervening mass – a distant galaxy – bends light from the quasar, so that we see two quasar images instead of one.<...		01/10/2009	140

Ring Nebula The famously named "Ring Nebula" is located in the northern constellation of Lyra, and also catalogued as Messier 57, M57 or NGC 6720. It is one of the most prominent examples of the deep-sky objects called planetary nebulae (singular, planetary nebula), often abbreviated by astronomers as simply planetaries or PN. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_Nebula		01/10/2009	149

Farthest Known Galaxy An international team of astronomers may have set a new record in discovering what is the most distant known galaxy in the universe. Located an estimated 13 billion light-years away, the object is being viewed at a time only 750 million years after the big bang, when the universe was barely 5 percent of its current age. The primeval galaxy was identified by combining the power of NASA's Hubble ...		01/10/2009	411

Baby Galaxy Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have measured the age of what may be the youngest galaxy ever seen in the universe. By cosmological standards it is a mere toddler seemingly out of place among the grown-up galaxies around it. Called I Zwicky 18, it may be as young as 500 million years old (so recent an epoch that complex life had already begun to appear on Earth). Our Milky Way ga...		01/10/2009	127

Hubble Deep Field - 1500 Galaxies at Once Representing a narrow "keyhole" view stretching to the visible horizon of the universe, the Hubble Deep Field image covers a speck of the sky only about the width of a dime 75 feet away. Though the field is a very small sample of the heavens, it is considered representative of the typical distribution of galaxies in space, because the universe, statistically, looks largely the same in...		01/10/2009	192

Cats Eye Nebula This Hubble telescope image shows one of the most complex planetary nebulae ever seen, NGC 6543, nicknamed the "Cat's Eye Nebula." Hubble reveals surprisingly intricate structures including concentric gas shells, jets of high-speed gas, and unusual shock-induced knots of gas. Estimated to be 1,000 years old, the nebula is a visual "fossil record" of the dynamics and late evo...		01/10/2009	184

Crux Crux (Latin: cross), commonly known as the Southern Cross (Crux Australis, in contrast to the Northern Cross), is the smallest of the 88 modern constellations		01/24/2008	443

Alien Markings Alien Markings in deep space - you will need to switch to sky first		12/09/2007	2,635

Comet C/2001 RX14 Comet C/2001 RX14 racing through the sky - You will need to switch to sky first		12/07/2007	981

Galaxial Collision Two galaxies collide, and the results are phenomenal.		12/04/2007	2,323

Intergalactic Pipeline Connecting 2 galaxies.. More info here: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2001/02		12/04/2007	994

Comet 17P Holmes Outburst of Comet 17p holmes. Between October 23–24, 2007, Comet Holmes grew much brighter, going from magnitude 17 to magnitude 2.5 in just a few hours. It became easily visible to the naked eye. October 25 17P/Holmes appeared as the third brightest "star" in that constellation. This is about the position right now.		11/21/2007	442

Egg Nebula CRL2688, a protoplanetary nebula in the constellation Cygnus		10/25/2007	910

Our Milky Way This is what we can see from our own Milky Way.		10/23/2007	1,150

M13 Hercules Messier 13 (M13, NGC 6205), also called the 'Great globular cluster in Hercules', is one of the most prominent and best known globulars of the Northern celestial hemisphere.		10/23/2007	515

North America Nebula The North America Nebula (NGC 7000) is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus, close to Deneb		10/23/2007	603

Beautiful Open Starcluster It's one of the most beautiful Star Clusters Located in the Small Magellanic Cloud		10/22/2007	664

Pillars of Creation The Pillars of Creation Is an interstellar cloud of dust, hydrogen gas and plasma. It is the first stage of a star's cycle.		10/22/2007	1,770

Whirlpool Galaxy The Whirlpool Galaxy M51 located at a distance of approximately 23 million light-years in the constellation Canes Venatici.		10/22/2007	551

Red Supergiant Star Light Echoes From Red Supergiant Star in Monocerotis V838		10/22/2007	610

Eskimo Nebula The Eskimo Nebula (NGC 2392), also known as the Clownface Nebula, A planetary nebula.		10/20/2007	823

Andromeda Galaxy The beautiful Andromeda galaxy in Google Sky. Just 2,5 mio lightyears distance from earth. You can see it without a telescope...		10/19/2007	1,364

Satelliet in Google Sky Een schaduw van een satelliet?? A shadow of a satellite?		10/15/2007	1,938

Supernova Blast Intricate wisps of glowing gas float amid a myriad of stars in this image of the supernova remnant called N132D in the nearby galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a nearby neighbor galaxy of our own Milky Way. The ejected material shows that roughly 3,000 years have passed since the supernova blast...		09/22/2007	811