Eye of God pictured in space
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Eye of God pictured in spacePosted by: uziiiEuropean astronomers have taken a stunning photo of a Big Brother-style ...
European astronomers have taken a stunning photo of a Big Brother-style cosmic eye, nicknamed the Eye of God, staring down from space. Nicknamed the Eye of God, the amazing object is actually a shell of gas and dust that has been blown off by a faint central star.
The bright blue pupil and the white of the eye are fringed by flesh-coloured eyelids - but this eye is so big that it light takes two and a half years to cross from one side to the other.
The object is actually a shell of gas and dust that has been blown off by a faint central star. Our own solar system will meet a similar fate five billion years in the future.
It lies around 700 light-years away in the constellation of Aquarius, and can be dimly seen in small backyard telescopes by amateur astronomers who call it the Helix nebula. It covers an area of sky around a quarter the size of the full moon.
The photo was taken with a giant telescope at the European Southern Observatory, high on a mountaintop at La Silla in Chile. It is so detailed that a close-up reveals distant galaxies within the central eyeball.
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- News Source: Daily News & Analysis | 9 months agoOur own solar system will meet a similar fate five billion years in the future. The "Eye of God" lies around 700 light-years away in the constellation of Aquarius, and can be dimly seen in small backyard telescopes by amateur astronomers who call it...
- News Source: Androscoggin News | 9 months agoThe eye, known as the Helix nebula, lies in the constellation of Aquarius and can be dimly seen in small backyard telescopes by amateur astronomers. Covering an area of sky around a quarter the size of the full moon, it is so huge that it would take...
- News Source: Times Online | 9 months agoLondon A spectacular “cosmic eye” has been photographed in space by a telescope in Chile, showing a distant nebula in which Sunlike stars are burning themselves out. The image of the Helix nebula, which lies 700 light years in the constellation...
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- Blog Source: www.sciencecodex.comShells of gas are blown off from a star's surface, often in intricate and beautiful patterns, and shine under the harsh ultraviolet radiation from the faint, but very hot, central star. The main ring of the Helix ... This color-composite image of the
- Blog Source: www.astronomy.comShells of gas are blown off from a star's surface, often in intricate and beautiful patterns, and shine under the harsh ultraviolet radiation from the faint, but very hot, central star. The main ring of the Helix Nebula is about 2 light- years ...
- Blog Source: www.sflorg.comShells of gas are blown off from a star’s surface, often in intricate and beautiful patterns, and shine under the harsh ultraviolet radiation from the faint, but very hot, central star. ... Image Caption: This color-composite image of the Helix
- Blog Source: cmarchesin.blogspot.com(1)This colour-composite image of the Helix Nebula (NGC 7293) was created from images obtained using the the Wide Field Imager (WFI), an astronomical camera attached to the 2.2-metre Max-Planck Society/ESO telescope at the La Silla observatory in
- Blog Source: www.eso.orgShells of gas are blown off from a star’s surface, often in intricate and beautiful patterns, and shine under the harsh ultraviolet radiation from the faint, but very hot, central star. ... These knots have been extensively studied, both with the
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