Hubble Captures Sparkling ‘Jewel Box’ Star Cluster, page 1
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Topic started on 29-10-2009 @ 08:46 PM by serbsta
This stunning image of the Kappis Crucis Cluster, nicknamed the “Jewel Box,” was one of the last gifts from a retiring camera on the Hubble Space Telescope.



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Just before NASA brought the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 back to Earth in mid-2009, it snapped this photo of the core of the NGC 4755 star cluster, the first comprehensive image of an open galactic cluster taken in multiple wavelengths. Using seven different filters, Hubble captured the Jewel Box cluster in far ultraviolet to near-infrared light. The different colors of the stars — from pale blue to bright ruby red — result from their differing intensities at various ultraviolet wavelengths.



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Image 1: NASA/ESA and Jesús Maíz Apellániz/Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Spain. Image 2: ESO, NASA/ESA, Digitized Sky Survey 2 and Jesús Maíz Apellániz/Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Spain.

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Wow, wow, wow. That's amazing.

What a wonderful universe we live in.




reply posted on 29-10-2009 @ 10:10 PM by serbsta
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Not a problem.

I find the 35-mm shot the most fascinating from the large image. All the beauty that lies in that small square. Fascinating.

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