February 7th, 2010
This video zooms in on the star-forming region known as the Cat’s Paw Nebula (NGC 6334), which is located not far from the center of our Milky Way.
The Cat’s Paw Nebula is a glowing gas cloud resembling the gigantic pawprint of a celestial cat out on an errand across the Universe. British astronomer John Herschel first recorded NGC 6334 in 1837 during his stay in South Africa. Despite using one of the largest telescopes in the world at the time, Herschel seems to have only noted the brightest part of the cloud, seen here towards the lower left.
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February 6th, 2010
An image of the Moon and Earth sent via Twitter on February 3rd by International Space Station astronaut Jose Hernandez.
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February 6th, 2010
Best of the third Austrian Hexapod Championships.
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February 6th, 2010
A study of a 150 million year old dinosaur fossil has revealed it had multi-colored feathers.
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February 6th, 2010
This leaves open the possibility that the complex debris tail is the result of an impact between two bodies, rather than ice simply melting from a parent body.
“If this interpretation is correct, two small and previously unknown asteroids recently collided, creating a shower of debris that is being swept back into a tail from the collision site by the pressure of sunlight,” Jewitt says
Asteroid collisions are energetic, with an average impact speed of more than 11,000 miles per hour–five times faster than a rifle bullet. The main nucleus of P/2010 A2 would be the surviving remnant of this so-called hypervelocity collision.
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