Showing posts with label NGC 2818. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NGC 2818. Show all posts

Thursday, January 15, 2009

New Hubble image. Click to enlarge. Seriously. Click.


This is one of the most beautiful Hubble images yet.
Just released, snapped in November of 2008.

From HubbleSite:

January 15, 2009: The unique planetary nebula NGC 2818 is nested inside the open star cluster NGC 2818A. Both the cluster and the nebula reside over 10,000 light-years away, in the southern constellation Pyxis (the Compass).

This Hubble image was taken in November 2008 with the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. The colors in the image represent a range of emissions coming from the clouds of the nebula: red represents nitrogen, green represents hydrogen, and blue represents oxygen.