Surveyors of the stars: Zazzle.com Gallery: Products http://feed.zazzle.com/z.2/api/find.aspx?ft=rss&ch=les_etoiles&ou=/les_etoiles/rssen-usSun, 08 Nov 2009 06:11:08 GMT60991115 http://www.zazzle.com/starburst_galaxy_ngc_1569_mousepad-144574115820510574?gl=les_etoilesWed, 17 Dec 2008 00:21:10 GMT<![CDATA[Starburst Galaxy NGC 1569]]>http://www.zazzle.com/starburst_galaxy_ngc_1569_mousepad-144574115820510574?gl=les_etoilesles_etoiles
Starburst Galaxy NGC 1569 mousepads
Starburst Galaxy NGC 1569
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The galaxy, called NGC 1569, sparkles with the light from millions of newly formed young stars. NGC 1569 is pumping out stars at a rate that is 100 times faster than the rate observed in our Milky Way Galaxy. This frenzied pace has been almost continuous for the past 100 million years.

A new analysis of NGC 1569 shows that it is one and a half times farther from Earth than astronomers previously thought. The extra distance places the galaxy in the middle of a group of about 10 galaxies centered on the spiral galaxy IC 342. Gravitational interactions among the group's galaxies may be compressing gas in NGC 1569 and igniting the star-birthing frenzy."

(qtd. from Hubblesite.org NewsCenter release STScI-2008-38)

Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), and A. Aloisi (STScI/ESA)]]>astronomy, deep space, galaxy, galaxies, hubble, hst, hubble telescope, nasag http://www.zazzle.com/star_forming_region_ngc_3324_mousepad-144959809365300579?gl=les_etoilesWed, 17 Dec 2008 00:15:29 GMT<![CDATA[Star-forming Region NGC 3324]]>http://www.zazzle.com/star_forming_region_ngc_3324_mousepad-144959809365300579?gl=les_etoilesles_etoiles
Star-forming Region NGC 3324 mousepads
Star-forming Region NGC 3324
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The Hubble Heritage Project, which began in October 1998, has released nearly 130 images mined from the Hubble data archive as well as a number of observations taken specifically for the project. By releasing a new, previously unseen Hubble image every month, the team's intent was to showcase some of the most attractive images ever taken by the Hubble telescope, and share them with a wide audience. The Heritage team continues to create aesthetic images that present the universe from an artistic perspective."

(qtd. from Hubblesite.org NewsCenter release STScI-2008-34)

Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)]]>astronomy, deep space, nebula, nebulae, star-forming, region, hubble, hst, hubble telescope, nasag http://www.zazzle.com/elliptical_galaxy_ngc_1275_perseus_a_mousepad-144976427623607667?gl=les_etoilesWed, 17 Dec 2008 00:10:58 GMT<![CDATA[Elliptical Galaxy NGC 1275 - Perseus A]]>http://www.zazzle.com/elliptical_galaxy_ngc_1275_perseus_a_mousepad-144976427623607667?gl=les_etoilesles_etoiles
Elliptical Galaxy NGC 1275 - Perseus A mousepads
Elliptical Galaxy NGC 1275 - Perseus A
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The filaments are dramatic markers of the feedback process through which energy is transferred from the central massive black hole to the surrounding gas. The filaments originate when cool gas is transported from the center of the galaxy by radio bubbles that rise in the hot interstellar gas."

(qtd. from Hubblesite.org NewsCenter release STScI-2008-28)

Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration]]>astronomy, deep space, galaxy, galaxies, hubble, hst, hubble telescope, nasag http://www.zazzle.com/globular_cluster_ngc_6791_mousepad-144932063938843196?gl=les_etoilesTue, 16 Dec 2008 23:52:13 GMT<![CDATA[Globular Cluster NGC 6791]]>http://www.zazzle.com/globular_cluster_ngc_6791_mousepad-144932063938843196?gl=les_etoilesles_etoiles
Globular Cluster NGC 6791 mousepads
Globular Cluster NGC 6791
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...Two of the populations are burned-out stars called white dwarfs. One group of these low-wattage stellar remnants (red circles) appears to be 6 billion years old, another (blue circles) appears to be 4 billion years old. The ages are out of sync with those of the cluster's normal stars, which are 8 billion years old."

(qtd. from Hubblesite.org NewsCenter release STScI-2008-25)

Credit: NASA, ESA, and L. Bedin (STScI)]]>astronomy, deep space, star, star cluster, hubble, hst, hubble telescope, nasag http://www.zazzle.com/coma_cluster_abell_1656_mousepad-144514768566997165?gl=les_etoilesTue, 16 Dec 2008 23:50:51 GMT<![CDATA[Coma Cluster (Abell 1656)]]>http://www.zazzle.com/coma_cluster_abell_1656_mousepad-144514768566997165?gl=les_etoilesles_etoiles
Coma Cluster (Abell 1656) mousepads
Coma Cluster (Abell 1656)
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(qtd. from Hubblesite.org NewsCenter release STScI-2008-24)

Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)]]>astronomy, deep space, galaxy, cluster, galaxies, hubble, hst, hubble telescope, nasag http://www.zazzle.com/sn_1006_supernova_remnant_mousepad-144452154871293275?gl=les_etoilesTue, 16 Dec 2008 23:49:49 GMT<![CDATA[SN 1006 Supernova Remnant]]>http://www.zazzle.com/sn_1006_supernova_remnant_mousepad-144452154871293275?gl=les_etoilesles_etoiles
SN 1006 Supernova Remnant mousepads
SN 1006 Supernova Remnant
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It wasn't until the mid-1960s that radio astronomers first detected a nearly circular ring of material at the recorded position of the supernova. The ring was almost 30 arcminutes across, the same angular diameter as the full moon. The size of the remnant implied that the blast wave from the supernova had expanded at nearly 20 million miles per hour over the nearly 1,000 years since the explosion occurred."

(qtd. from Hubblesite.org NewsCenter release STScI-2008-22)

Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)]]>astronomy, deep space, nebula, nebulae, supernova, remnant, hubble, hst, hubble telescope, nasag http://www.zazzle.com/interacting_galaxies_12_mousepad-144875366357731434?gl=les_etoilesTue, 16 Dec 2008 23:48:33 GMT<![CDATA[Interacting Galaxies (12)]]>http://www.zazzle.com/interacting_galaxies_12_mousepad-144875366357731434?gl=les_etoilesles_etoiles
Interacting Galaxies (12) mousepads
Interacting Galaxies (12)
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But galaxies have a dynamical side. They have close encounters that sometimes end in grand mergers and overflowing sites of new star birth as the colliding galaxies morph into wondrous new shapes.

...For all their violence, galactic smash-ups take place at a glacial rate by human standards - timescales on the order of several hundred million years. The images in the Hubble atlas capture snapshots of the various merging galaxies at various stages in their collision."

(qtd. from Hubblesite.org NewsCenter release STScI-2008-16)

Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University)]]>astronomy, deep space, galaxy, galaxies, hubble, hst, hubble telescope, nasag http://www.zazzle.com/interacting_galaxies_59_mousepad-144487739639612253?gl=les_etoilesTue, 16 Dec 2008 23:46:56 GMT<![CDATA[Interacting Galaxies (59)]]>http://www.zazzle.com/interacting_galaxies_59_mousepad-144487739639612253?gl=les_etoilesles_etoiles
Interacting Galaxies (59) mousepads
Interacting Galaxies (59)
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(qtd. from Hubblesite.org NewsCenter release STScI-2008-16)

Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration]]>astronomy, deep space, galaxy, galaxies, hubble, hst, hubble telescope, nasag http://www.zazzle.com/core_of_omega_centauri_ngc_2371_mousepad-144593755913318204?gl=les_etoilesTue, 16 Dec 2008 23:45:31 GMT<![CDATA[Core of Omega Centauri (NGC 2371)]]>http://www.zazzle.com/core_of_omega_centauri_ngc_2371_mousepad-144593755913318204?gl=les_etoilesles_etoiles
Core of Omega Centauri (NGC 2371) mousepads
Core of Omega Centauri (NGC 2371)
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Astronomers Eva Noyola, of the Max-Planck Institute of Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, Germany, and Karl Gebhardt of the University of Texas at Austin, have reported on the possible detection of an intermediate-mass black hole in the core of Omega Centauri."

(qtd. from Hubblesite.org NewsCenter release STScI-2008-14)

Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)]]>astronomy, deep space, star, star cluster, black, hole, hubble, hst, hubble telescope, spitzer, sst, spitzer telescope, nasag http://www.zazzle.com/elliptical_galaxy_ngc_1132_mousepad-144191114097454784?gl=les_etoilesTue, 16 Dec 2008 23:43:33 GMT<![CDATA[Elliptical Galaxy NGC 1132]]>http://www.zazzle.com/elliptical_galaxy_ngc_1132_mousepad-144191114097454784?gl=les_etoilesles_etoiles
Elliptical Galaxy NGC 1132 mousepads
Elliptical Galaxy NGC 1132
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(qtd. from Hubblesite.org NewsCenter release STScI-2008-07)

Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)]]>astronomy, deep space, galaxy, galaxies, hubble, hst, hubble telescope, nasag http://www.zazzle.com/dwarf_galaxy_holmberg_ix_mousepad-144978560468311331?gl=les_etoilesTue, 16 Dec 2008 23:40:52 GMT<![CDATA[Dwarf Galaxy Holmberg IX]]>http://www.zazzle.com/dwarf_galaxy_holmberg_ix_mousepad-144978560468311331?gl=les_etoilesles_etoiles
Dwarf Galaxy Holmberg IX mousepads
Dwarf Galaxy Holmberg IX
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(qtd. from Hubblesite.org NewsCenter release STScI-2008-02)

Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)]]>astronomy, deep space, galaxy, galaxies, hubble, hst, hubble telescope, nasag http://www.zazzle.com/starburst_galaxy_ngc_1569_large_postage-172815239312927319?gl=les_etoilesTue, 16 Dec 2008 01:59:01 GMT<![CDATA[Starburst Galaxy NGC 1569 - large]]>http://www.zazzle.com/starburst_galaxy_ngc_1569_large_postage-172815239312927319?gl=les_etoilesles_etoiles
Starburst Galaxy NGC 1569 - large postage
Starburst Galaxy NGC 1569 - large
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The galaxy, called NGC 1569, sparkles with the light from millions of newly formed young stars. NGC 1569 is pumping out stars at a rate that is 100 times faster than the rate observed in our Milky Way Galaxy. This frenzied pace has been almost continuous for the past 100 million years.

A new analysis of NGC 1569 shows that it is one and a half times farther from Earth than astronomers previously thought. The extra distance places the galaxy in the middle of a group of about 10 galaxies centered on the spiral galaxy IC 342. Gravitational interactions among the group's galaxies may be compressing gas in NGC 1569 and igniting the star-birthing frenzy."

(qtd. from Hubblesite.org NewsCenter release STScI-2008-38)

Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA), and A. Aloisi (STScI/ESA)]]>astronomy, deep space, galaxy, galaxies, hubble, hst, hubble telescope, nasag http://www.zazzle.com/star_forming_region_ngc_3324_large_postage-172296073285085137?gl=les_etoilesTue, 16 Dec 2008 01:58:04 GMT<![CDATA[Star-forming Region NGC 3324 - large]]>http://www.zazzle.com/star_forming_region_ngc_3324_large_postage-172296073285085137?gl=les_etoilesles_etoiles
Star-forming Region NGC 3324 - large postage
Star-forming Region NGC 3324 - large
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The Hubble Heritage Project, which began in October 1998, has released nearly 130 images mined from the Hubble data archive as well as a number of observations taken specifically for the project. By releasing a new, previously unseen Hubble image every month, the team's intent was to showcase some of the most attractive images ever taken by the Hubble telescope, and share them with a wide audience. The Heritage team continues to create aesthetic images that present the universe from an artistic perspective."

(qtd. from Hubblesite.org NewsCenter release STScI-2008-34)

Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)]]>astronomy, deep space, nebula, nebulae, star-forming, region, hubble, hst, hubble telescope, nasag http://www.zazzle.com/star_forming_nebula_near_ngc_2074_large_postage-172849767685746408?gl=les_etoilesTue, 16 Dec 2008 01:56:18 GMT<![CDATA[Star-forming Nebula near NGC 2074 - large]]>http://www.zazzle.com/star_forming_nebula_near_ngc_2074_large_postage-172849767685746408?gl=les_etoilesles_etoiles
Star-forming Nebula near NGC 2074 - large postage
Star-forming Nebula near NGC 2074 - large
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(qtd. from Hubblesite.org NewsCenter release STScI-2008-31)

Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Livio (STScI)]]>astronomy, deep space, nebula, nebulae, hubble, hst, hubble telescope, nasag http://www.zazzle.com/elliptical_galaxy_ngc_1275_perseus_a_large_postage-172385656898177018?gl=les_etoilesTue, 16 Dec 2008 01:53:54 GMT<![CDATA[Elliptical Galaxy NGC 1275 - Perseus A - large]]>http://www.zazzle.com/elliptical_galaxy_ngc_1275_perseus_a_large_postage-172385656898177018?gl=les_etoilesles_etoiles
Elliptical Galaxy NGC 1275 - Perseus A - large postage
Elliptical Galaxy NGC 1275 - Perseus A - large
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The filaments are dramatic markers of the feedback process through which energy is transferred from the central massive black hole to the surrounding gas. The filaments originate when cool gas is transported from the center of the galaxy by radio bubbles that rise in the hot interstellar gas."

(qtd. from Hubblesite.org NewsCenter release STScI-2008-28)

Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration]]>astronomy, deep space, galaxy, galaxies, hubble, hst, hubble telescope, nasag