Exotic Objects

Stars and Exotic Objects



Possible planet?

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).

thumbnail Near-infrared image of young binary stars with a faint companion (a planet?) (Image STScI-PRC98-19) ( 26k)
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Stars

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.

thumbnail Betelgeuse, the brightest star in the constellation Orion (Image STScI-PRC96-04) ( 219k)
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thumbnail Mira A, also known as Omicron Ceti, in the constellation Cetus (Image STScI-PRC97-26) ( 21k)
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thumbnail Nebula surrounding the Wolf-Rayet star WR124 in the constellation Sagittarius (Image STScI-PRC98-38) ( 340k)
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Black Holes, White Dwarfs, and Neutron Stars

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.

thumbnail Black hole candidate in the spiral galaxy M87 (Image STScI-PR94-23) ( 94k)
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thumbnail Comparison of ground-based observation of the globular cluster M4 with an HST image showing white dwarfs (Image STScI-PRC95-32) ( 111k)
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thumbnail First direct look, in visible light, at a lone neutron star (RX J185635-3754) (Image STScI-PRC97-32) ( 104k)
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Supernovae

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.

thumbnail Kepler's Supernova Remnant (Image H262S21A) ( 69k)


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Randall Gordon, Eric Mackie, J.D. Scott, Marrisa Dietz