Exotic Objects
Stars and Exotic Objects
The picture was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and is provided courtesy of
the Space Telescope Science Institute. It was taken with the Near Infrared Camera
and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS).
Near-infrared image of young binary stars with a faint companion (a planet?)
(Image STScI-PRC98-19)
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These pictures were taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and are provided courtesy of
the Space Telescope Science Institute. The first two images were taken with ESA's Faint
Object Camera and the third with the Wide-Field Planetary Camera 2.
Betelgeuse, the brightest star in the constellation Orion
(Image STScI-PRC96-04)
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Mira A, also known as Omicron Ceti, in the constellation Cetus
(Image STScI-PRC97-26)
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Nebula surrounding the Wolf-Rayet star WR124 in the constellation Sagittarius
(Image STScI-PRC98-38)
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These pictures were taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and are provided courtesy of
the Space Telescope Science Institute. All three images were taken with the Wide-Field
Planetary Camera 2.
Black hole candidate in the spiral galaxy M87
(Image STScI-PR94-23)
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Comparison of ground-based observation of the globular cluster M4 with an HST image
showing white dwarfs (Image STScI-PRC95-32)
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First direct look, in visible light, at a lone neutron star (RX J185635-3754)
(Image STScI-PRC97-32)
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This is an x-ray image from the High Resolution Imager (HRI) on ROSAT.
This image, and many others, are available on the
ROSAT CD-ROMs
available from NSSDC.
Kepler's Supernova Remnant (Image H262S21A)
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