These were runners-up in the NASA Hubble’s Hidden Treasures contest that asked amateurs to pick though their giant archive of unused imagery for overlooked gems. You can see the winners and the rest of the runners-up here.
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Shadowplay NYC is a design duo that turns galaxies into garments. Each piece of fabric used in their creations is custom printed with images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. You can find their cosmic creations for purchase in their Etsy store.
The Orion Nebula
In one of the most detailed astronomical images ever produced, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured an unprecedented look at the Orion Nebula. … This extensive study took 105 Hubble orbits to complete. All imaging instruments aboard the telescope were used simultaneously to study Orion.
These are just a few of the images you’ll see at the new exhibit The Evolving Universe on display through July 7, 2013 at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
“From the Distant Past” [a light art exhibit by German artist Tim Otto Roth] creates a stunning visual representation of Hubble Space Telescope spectrograph observations of both nearby stars and far away galaxies. Projected by a green high-power laser and etched across the museum façades, this celestial art work will illuminate the evening skies of Baltimore and New York City.
Maryland Science Center
Rose Center for Earth and Space
That’s one scary looking fairy.
The Fairy of Eagle Nebula
Image Credit: The Hubble Heritage Team, (STScI/AURA), ESA, NASA
The dust sculptures of the Eagle Nebula are evaporating. As powerful starlight whittles away these cool cosmic mountains, the statuesque pillars that remain might be imagined as mythical beasts. Pictured above is one of several striking dust pillars of the Eagle Nebula that might be described as a gigantic alien fairy. This fairy, however, is ten light years tall and spews radiation much hotter than common fire. The greater Eagle Nebula, M16, is actually a giant evaporating shell of gas and dust inside of which is a growing cavity filled with a spectacular stellar nursery currently forming an open cluster of stars. The above image in scientifically re-assigned colors was released in 2005 as part of the fifteenth anniversary celebration of the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope.
Creating a Hubble Galaxy in Two Minutes (by HubbleSiteChannel)
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