CosmoBC logo
CosmoBC: n. short for Cosmo BroadCasting. Your universal news and offbeat portal.
About us • Advertise with us • Write for us

Main menu

Skip to primary content
Skip to secondary content
  • Home
  • Tech
  • Business
  • Space
  • Travel
  • Education
  • Law
  • Health
  • Food
  • Art
  • DIY
  • Animals
  • Odd
  • Fashion
  • Quotes
CosmoBC.com » Posts tagged "Hubble" (Page 5)

Tag Archives: Hubble

Astronomy Picture of the Week – Rings of Uranus

Posted on Jul 6, 2011 by Paul Tomaszewski. Filed under Astronomy, Pictures

This series of images of the rings of Uranus were taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. They were taken at different times when the rings were facing the Earth at slightly different angles. In the third image, the edge-on rings appear as two spikes above and below the planet. Continue reading →

Astronomy Picture of the Week – Interacting Galaxy NGC 7469

Posted on Jun 29, 2011 by Paul Tomaszewski. Filed under Astronomy, Pictures

This stunning pair of interacting galaxies are in the process of merging. The barred spiral Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 7469 and its smaller companion IC 5283 are both located about 200 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of … Continue reading →

Astronomy Picture of the Week – NGC 2346 Planetary Nebula

Posted on Jun 22, 2011 by Paul Tomaszewski. Filed under Astronomy, Pictures

NGC 2346 is a planetary nebula which is ejected from Sun-like stars which are near the ends of their lives. It is remarkable because its central star is a very close pair of stars, orbiting each other every 16 days. The nebula lies about 2,000 light-years away from us, and is about one-third of a light-year in size. Continue reading →

Astronomy Picture of the Week – Jupiter as seen by Hubble

Posted on Jun 16, 2011 by Paul Tomaszewski. Filed under Astronomy, Pictures
Jupiter by Hubble

This image of Jupiter was taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope on June 7, 2010. Image Credit: NASA, ESA, M.H. Wong (University of Califoria, Berkeley), H.B. Hammel (Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo.), A.A. Simon-Miller (Goddard Space Flight Center), and… Continue reading →

Astronomy Picture of the Week – NGC 6782

Posted on Jun 8, 2011 by Paul Tomaszewski. Filed under Astronomy, Pictures
Galaxy NGC 6782

This spiral galaxy is called NGC 6782. When seen in visible light, it exhibits tightly wound spiral arms that give it a pinwheel shape similar to that of many other spirals. However, when viewed in ultraviolet light with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, its shape is startlingly different. Continue reading →

Astronomy Picture of the Week – Space Oddity

Posted on Jun 2, 2011 by Paul Tomaszewski. Filed under Astronomy, Pictures
Hubble Space Oddity

This unusual ghostly green blob of gas appears to float near a normal-looking spiral galaxy in the image taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. The bizarre object, dubbed Hanny’s Voorwerp (Hanny’s Object in Dutch), is the only visible part of a 300,000-light-year-long streamer of gas stretching around the IC 2497 galaxy. Continue reading →

Astronomy Picture of the Week – Spiral Galaxy NGC 2841

Posted on May 25, 2011 by Paul Tomaszewski. Filed under Astronomy, Pictures
Spira lGalaxy NGC 2841

This view of the majestic disk of stars and dust lanes of the spiral galaxy NGC 2841 was taken by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope in 2010. The galaxy lies 46 million light-years away in the constellation of Ursa Major. Credit: … Continue reading →

Astronomy Picture of the Week – Mars as seen by Hubble

Posted on Apr 2, 2011 by Paul Tomaszewski. Filed under Astronomy, Pictures, Space Exploration
Mars as seen by Hubble Telescope

This is one of the best photos of Mars ever taken from Earth or Low Earth Orbit. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope took this close-up of the red planet Mars when it was just 88 million kilometers away. This color image was assembled from a series of exposures taken within 36 hours of the Mars closest approach… Continue reading →

Astronomy Picture of the Week – Spiral Galaxy NGC 3982

Posted on Mar 24, 2011 by Paul Tomaszewski. Filed under Astronomy, Pictures
Spiral Galaxy NGC 3982

This spiral galaxy, called NGC 3982, looks similar to our own galaxy but it is much smaller. NGC 3982 spans about 30,000 light-years which makes it roughly one-third of the size of the Milky Way galaxy. It is located about … Continue reading →

Follow Friday & Weekly Stumbles For 2011-03-18

Posted on Mar 18, 2011 by Paul Tomaszewski. Filed under Astronomy, Futurism, Space Exploration, Weekly Digests

Thirty-five years ago, Gerard K. O’Neill wrote: “We are so used to living on a planetary surface that it is a wrench for us even to consider continuing our normal human activities in another location”. He concluded that the best place for a growing industrial society is not on the Earth… Continue reading →

Page 5 of 7« First«...34567»

Navigation

  • About us
  • Contact us
  • Advertise
  • Write for us
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of use

Follow @cosmobc

Write for us!

We're accepting guest post contributions. Submit your article for consideration and become an author of this great community.

RSS Daily Quote

  • Thomas Sowell on History and Society
    “Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.” Thomas Sowell, Is Reality Optional?, 1993 (1930 – )

RSS Daily Joke

  • Smartest Man in the World
    A doctor, a lawyer, a little boy and a priest were out for a Sunday afternoon flight on a small private plane. Suddenly, the plane developed engine trouble. In spite of the best efforts of the pilot, the plane started … Continue reading → The post Smartest Man in the World appeared first on CosmoBC.com […]
CosmoBC logo         About Us      Contact Us      Advertise With Us      Write For Us      Privacy Policy      Terms Of Use
Copyright © 2008-2022 CosmoBC.com and CosmoBroadCasting.com. All rights reserved.