Outer Space Objects

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Outer Space Objects

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Center of Milky Way

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COMETS

Series of 7 slides

Photographs provided on the web by NASA

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Halley’s Comet

13 May 1910 over Flagstaff, Arizona

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Halley Comet from Giotto 1986

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Giotto

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Comet Bradford

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Comet P/Shoemaker-Levy 9

Mosaic from Hubble

Sun is above and to the right.

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Comet Shoemaker—Levy 9

collision with Jupiter

-1994-

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Comet Ikeya--Zhang

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Hubble Space Telescope

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The Kepler Supernova

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Eagle Nebula from Hubble

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Antennae galaxies (mosaic)

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Andromeda Galaxy

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Next four images of Crab Nebula use different wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation (light).

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Southern Crab Nebula

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Crab Nebula

6,000 light years from earth

Remains of a supernova explosion seen in 1054 AD

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High energy center

Photo from Hubble

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Crab Nebula – radio image

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