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Sunny Side Up: New Image of the Fried Egg Nebula Reveals a Rare Yellow Hypergiant Star
An image from the Very Large Telescope of IRAS 17163-3907, which has a huge dusty double shell surrounding a rare hypergiant star. The star and its shells resemble an egg white around a yolky center, leading astronomers to nickname the object the Fried Egg Nebula. Credit: ESO/E. Lagadec
A new look at the Fried Egg Nebula has revealed one of the rarest classes of stars in the Universe, a yellow hypergiant. This “sunny-side-up” view shows for the first time a huge dusty double shell surrounding this huge star.
“This object was known to glow brightly in the infrared but, surprisingly, nobody had identified it as a yellow hypergiant before,” said Eric Lagadec from the European Southern Observatory, who led the team that produced the new images.
And there’s good reason to keep an eye on this star: it will likely soon die an explosive death, and will be one of the next supernova explosions in our galaxy.
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Rare martian lake delta spotted by Mars Express
Astronomy Magazine News Article – Released:9/2/2011
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Astronomy Magazine News Article – Released:5/26/2011
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Rare Green Flashes Captured From the Moon
Green flashes from the setting Moon. Credit: ESO/G.Hüdepohl
Green flashes from the Sun at sunset are a rare phenomenon, but even rarer are green flashes from a setting Moon. With the unique atmospheric conditions at Cerro Paranal in Chile, a photographer from ESO’s Very Large Telescope managed to what are likely the best images ever taken of the Moon’s green flash. ESO Photo Ambassador Gerhard Hüdepohl took a series of images of thesetting full Moon crossing the horizon, taken on a clear early morning from the Paranal Residencia.
What happens that makes the green flashes appear?
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Rare Images From Inside a Soyuz During Flight
Astronaut Cady Coleman and cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev inside the living area of the Soyuz TMA-20. Credit: Roscosmos.
Cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev recently arrived at the International Space Station, along with astronauts Cady Colemand from the US and Paolo Nespoli from the European Space Agency. Kondratyev has a blog, which he has been updating regularly and he has included several pictures. Most interestingly, he has quite a few images taken inside the Soyuz after launch as the crew was on their way to meet up with the ISS. Very few interior images of the Soyuz during flight have been made available before. Below are some that Kondratyev shared.
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