Jan 10, 2018
The Tarantula Nebula
Image Credit: Robert Gendler, Roberto Colombari
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The Tarantula Nebula
Image Credit: Robert Gendler, Roberto Colombari
This is an artist's concept of the fastest rotating star found to date. The massive, bright young star, called VFTS 102 rotates at about two million kilometres per hour. Centrifugal force from this dizzying spin rate has flattened the star into an oblate shape, and spun off a disk of hot plasma, seen edge on in this view from a hypothetical planet. The star may have "spun up" by accreting material from a binary companion star. The rapidly evolving companion later exploded as a supernova. The whirling star lies 160 000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.
Credit: NASA/ESA and G. Bacon (STScI)
Hubble completa 35 anos revolucionando a astronomia com imagens
O Telescópio Espacial Hubble, um dos instrumentos mais icônicos da NASA, está prestes a completar 35 anos de operações em órbita, uma jornada que teve início em 24 de abril de 1990. Desde seu lançamento, o Hubble transformou a astronomia, proporcionando uma visão sem precedentes do cosmos e alterando fundamentalmente nossa compreensão sobre o universo.(...)
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