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This week astronomers announced the first pictures of planets circling other stars, but if you saw the photos released by the wire services you might have wondered, “Where?” Here’s a good illustration from APOD, showing the planet and its position within the giant ring of dust that surrounds Fomalhaut. They’ve ...
Science, NASA, Hubble, Hubble Space Telescope, Fomalhaut, Planets, Astronomy
From APOD, this stunning false-color composite picture combines a Hubble Space Telescope image with data from the orbiting Chandra Observatory, showing the intense X-ray activity of the Cat’s Eye Nebula, 3,000 light years from Earth.
LGF, Photograph, Space, Hubble, Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra Observatory, Cat's Eye Nebula
A gallery of wonders: The Top 100 Images from the Hubble Space Telescope.