Colorful imaged the death of a planetary nebula

The NASA has achieved through his telescope Chandra grasping the end of a star's life, namely NGC 2393, known as "Eskimo Nebula". This study allows astronomers to predict the demise of the Sun, expected within about 5,000 million years.

Planetary nebulae like this are formed when a star consumes all the hydrogen in its core, something will happen to our sun in about 5,000 million years, reports NASA. At the time this happens, 

Pencil Nebula

This magnificent picture thin, like a carefully woven threads, give the feeling that on the object labored diligent hand, workman. We have previously presented pictures Pencil Nebula, made ​​with the Space Telescope in Chile. Now propose to look at a photo taken by an amateur astronomer.

Martin Pugh took this picture Pencil Nebula or NGC 2736, at home in New South Wales, Australia.

The Eskimo Nebula X-ray

The XMM-Newton space observatory agree to us to look surrounded by the covering fuzzy Eskimo Nebula, instructive a warm face gas to 2 million degrees Celsius.

This image is a amalgam of data collected by XMM-Newton (blue) and the Hubble Space Telescope (red and green), and highlights the complex nature of terrestrial nebula, the swan song of stars like our Sun .

When these stars mature, they begin to shed their outer layers to expose its core, a high temperature. 

Ghost Nebula

This ghostly image was obtained in August 2009 with the vision of wide-field Mosaic Camera on the Mayall 4-meter telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory. This cloud of cosmic dust, called vdB 141, is a reflection nebula located in the constellation Cepheus, approximately 1,200 light-years away. 

A halo of NGC 6164

The attractive emanation nebula NGC 6164 was created by a strange, hot and bright star of type O , about 40 times more massive than the Sun Vista here in the center of the cosmic cloud, the star has an age of 3-4000000 years, within three or four million years will end its life in a supernova explosion .

With a diameter of about 4 light years away, the nebula has a bipolar symmetry, 

Planetary Nebula Abell 39

Let's look at a planetary nebula nearly perfect spherical shape, whose name Abell 39 (Abell 39).

Today in our galaxy "Milky Way" is known more than 1500 planetary nebulae that are astronomical substance consisting of ionized gas shell and the central star - a white dwarf. Planetary nebulae are fast in astronomical terms the phenomenon, which lasts only a few tens of thousands of years. For comparison, the life of the parent star is a few billion years.

"Eye" spiral nebula is blue

Helix Nebula (snail) is often called the "Eye of God" or "Eye of Sauron", and do not reject that this place looks like a cosmic eye, looks straight at us. On the new image, which combined the image transmitted from the telescope "Spitzer" and GALEX, the eye appears to us in a blue shade that complements the palette of gold, green and turquoise of the nebula, obtained previously by other observatories.

The Pencil Nebula a celestial broom

Pencil Nebula Shown is a new image of the La Silla Observatory in Chile. curious cloud of glowing This gas is hand of a giant ring of residues, Remains of a supernova explosion That Took up there are about 11 000 years. Detailed view this was conducted by the WFI (Wide Field Imager) on the telescope MPG / ESO 2.2-meter.

The Ring Nebula drawn

The Ring Nebula (M 57) is a planetary nebula with a simple symmetry that is familiar to observers of the sky with a telescope. It lays about 2,000 light years away in the constellation Lyra music.

This drawing cosmic ring shows signs of changing colors and subtle details. It was done under excellent conditions of direct observation of eye of a reflecting telescope of 40 inches with a 800x increase. To create the original drawing used colored pencils on white paper, here shown digitally scanned with a palette of colors inverted. With a diameter of about one light year, the nebula is composed of several layers ejected by a dying star that was like the sun.

NGC 1929 in N44: A Surprisingly Bright Superbubble

NGC 1929 is a star cluster rooted in the nebula N44, Which is found in the Large Magellan Cloud.Massive stars in the cluster produces powerful radiation, expel matter at high speeds, and explode as supernovas Relatively Quickly. Winds from the massive stars and supernova shocks from carve out "superbubbles" in the gas seen in X-rays by Chandra (blue). Infrared data show dust (red) and cooler gas and optical light (yellow) Reveals where ultraviolet radiation is Causing the gas to glow.

This composite image shows a superbubble in the Large Magellan Cloud (LMC), a small satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, located About 160.000 light years from Earth.

A garden center of stars the "nebula of war and peace”

The Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile has allowed a group of astronomers to find an extraordinary image of the nebula NGC 6357, a nursery of stars known as the "nebula of war and peace”

The scientific body said, this new panoramic, obtained from the ESO Observatory at Cerro Paranal has, in the Atacama Desert, shows numerous hot young stars, glowing clouds of gas and dust strange formations sculpted by ultraviolet radiation and stellar winds.

The Trifid Nebula (M20, NGC 6514) and the open cluster M21.

 From the magnificent skies of the valleys of Coubertin, in the Observatory's Outdoor Corner the Chileans, the amateur Marcelo Caceres released its focal corrector with the Trifid Nebula (M20, NGC 6514) and the open cluster M21.

With simple equipment, a telescope Omni 150 and a computerized equatorial mount CG5, very well lined, fitted with a Canon EOS focal corrector took a picture of great beauty that left the audience amazed.

The Trifid nebula is a region rich in hydrogen gas where stars are being born, which ionize the gas in the vacuum of space making it highly incandescent. This is called an "H II region" and M20 is located in the Sagittarius Carina arm of our Milky Way, in the direction of Sagittarius. The bars which divide the cloud are dust-rich regions.