Nazaret Rodríguez TaltavullCMC 1º Bachillerato B

Universe Images

Black Sun and Inverted Starfield2012 October 15

This image of our Sun was captured originally in a very specific colour of red light, then rendered in black and white

and then colour inverted. Once complete it was added to a starfield and colour

inverted again. As a result we can see long filaments, dark active regions ,

prominences peaking around de edge and a moving carpet of hot gas. It shows how

the Sun is nearing solar maximum.

A Spiral Nebula Surrounding

Star R Sculptoris 2012 October 16

This unusual spiral structure has been discovered around Milky Way star R

Sculptoris, a red giant star located about 1,500 light years away, toward the

constellation of the Sculptor (Sculptoris). The photo was taken by the new Atacama

Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), the most powerful telescopic array

observing near millimeter wavelengths .

A quintet in the universe

This heap of galaxies placed in the constellation of Pegasus is called

Stefan's Quintet. This five galaxies are as different as interesting. Two of them are

in the center, almost close. They are placed to approximately 300 million light

years of distance and they were photographed by the new camera of the

Hubble in 2009.

Over 180.000 stars appear on this photo, captured by the camera of the Hubble,

focusing the centre of our galaxy, in order to find exoplanets. Planets that

orbit the far-off stars cannot be observed directly, but by means of a wide range of astronomic technologies it’s possible to

calculate its situation.

Searching for planets

The birth of the stars

In this stellar heap called NGC 602, near the Little Magallanes Cloud, millions of

young stars issue radiation and energy as waves that erode the material that

surrounds them, creating interesting formations. The size of what this image

shows covers about 200 light years from side to side.

Sources

• http://www.rtve.es/noticias/telescopio-hubble/imagenes/

• http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/