Outer Space Objects

Center of Milky Way

COMETS

Photographs
provided on the web
by NASA

Series of 7 slides

Halleys Comet
13 May 1910 over Flagstaff, Arizona

Halley
Comet

from Giotto
1986

Giotto

Comet Bradford

Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9
Sun is above and to the right.

Mosaic from Hubble

Comet ShoemakerLevy 9
collision with Jupiter
-1994-

Comet Ikeya--Zhang

Hubble Space Telescope

The
Kepler
Supernova

Eagle Nebula from Hubble

Antenna
e
galaxies
(mosaic)

Andromeda Galaxy

Next four images of Crab Nebula

use different wavelengths of
electromagnetic radiation (light).

Southern Crab Nebula

Crab
Nebul
a
6,000 light
years from
earth
Remains of a
supernova
explosion seen in
1054 AD

High energy center

Photo from Hubble

Crab
Nebul
a
radio
image

Crab Nebula -- a Pulsar

End of part 1

Ben Zalewski Jan. 2007

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