Monthly Archives: January 2012

The Earth is also a planet: A Big Blue Marble

Posted on January 25, 2012 by

A ‘Blue Marble’ image of the Earth taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA’s most recently launched Earth-observing satellite – Suomi NPP. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth’s surface taken on January 4, 2012. The … Continue reading →

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Star clears away birth clouds

Posted on January 11, 2012 by

The Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field Camera-3 has captured this image of a giant cloud of hydrogen gas illuminated by a bright young star. The image shows how violent the end stages of the star-formation process can be, with the … Continue reading →

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