THE MAGIC OF HUBBLE Caroline Goode NASA Top Stars 2010

HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE HST : Working to answer one of the most fundamental questions in science: What is the age and scale of the universe? Caroline Goode NASA Top Stars 2010

STARS A solar storm projects over million miles from the solar surface. Caroline Goode NASA Top Stars 2010

THE PERFECT STORM DISTANCE: 5,500 light years away (2003) Bubbly ocean of hydrogen and small amounts of oxygen, sulfur and other elements Caroline Goode NASA Top Stars 2010

INFANT STARS IN SMALL MAGELLANIC CLOUD (SMC) LOCATION: 210,000 light years from Earth The birth of new stars with the smallest only half the mass of our Sun Caroline Goode NASA Top Stars 2010

SUPERGIANT STAR V838 MON DISTANCE: 20,000 light years from Earth (2004) LOCATION: OUTER EDGE OF MILKY WAY A RED GIANT-The illumination of interstellar dust comes from the red supergiant star at the middle of the image Caroline Goode NASA Top Stars 2010

SUPERNOVA SN1987A Cosmic "pearls" are being produced from shock waves traveling at more than a million miles per hour during the Supernova explosion in 1987 (2003 image) Caroline Goode NASA Top Stars 2010

SIRIUS A and SIRIUS B A White Dwarf, Sirius B is the tiny dot at lower left Caroline Goode NASA Top Stars 2010

THE ANT NEBULA LOCATION: Milky Way Galaxy DISTANCE: 3,000-6,000 light years from Earth (2009) Death of a Star Ant’s body appears as a pair of fiery lobes protruding from a dying, Sun-like star Caroline Goode NASA Top Stars 2010

CAT’S EYE NEBULA DISTANCE: About 3,300 light years away from Earth (1995) A visual "fossil record" of the dynamics and late evolution of a dying star Caroline Goode NASA Top Stars 2010

GALAXIES Black Hole-Powered Spiral Galaxy NGC 7742 Caroline Goode NASA Top Stars 2010

INTERACTING SPIRAL GALAXIES LOCATION: Near Constellation Canis Major (1999) DISTANCE: 80,000,000 Light years from Earth A cosmic dance between two spiral galaxies Caroline Goode NASA Top Stars 2010

SPIRAL GALAXY M100 LOCATION: Several tens of millions light years from Earth (1994) Helping astronomers to understand how our own galaxy, our start, and our Earth came to be Caroline Goode NASA Top Stars 2010

SOMBRERO GALAXY DISTANCE: 28 Million Light-Years from Earth (2003) Equivalent to 800 billion suns and 50,000 light years across Caroline Goode NASA Top Stars 2010

GIANT ELLIPTICAL GALAXY NGC 1316 DISTANCE: 75 million light years from Earth (2005) Complex loops and blobs of cosmic dust lie hidden in the giant elliptical galaxy Caroline Goode NASA Top Stars 2010

IRREGULAR STARRBURST GALAXY M82 DISTANCE: 12 million light years from Earth (2006) Fiery-looking plumes of glowing hydrogen blast out of its central regions Caroline Goode NASA Top Stars 2010

GALAXY CLUSTER MACS J0717 DISTANCE: 5.4 billion light years from Earth (2009) A cosmic “free-for-all” Caroline Goode NASA Top Stars 2010

PLANETS

MARTIAN METEORITE Iron-nickel meteorites like this one are fairly common on Earth but rockier. Image from Linda Morabito’s Space Place Caroline Goode NASA Top Stars 2010

MARS 4 th planet from the Sun. A dust storm, which measures 930 miles, can be seen in the middle of the planet. Mars is a terrestrial (earth-like) planet. Caroline Goode NASA Top Stars 2010

ASTROID-VESTA (1997) 3-D computer model from Hubble data, not a true representation of the features. The Astroid Belt is found between the terrestrial and gaseous planets (Mars & Jupiter) Caroline Goode NASA Top Stars 2010

JUPITER (2008) 5 TH planet from the Sun with its moon Ganymede. Jupiter is one of the “gas giants”. Caroline Goode NASA Top Stars 2010

SATURN (2009) 6 TH planet from the Sun. Hubble is a billion miles away capturing Saturn’s rings Caroline Goode NASA Top Stars 2010

URANUS (2006) 7 th planet from the Sun. Ariel, a 700 mile diameter satellite (moon) casting its shadow on the surface. Caroline Goode NASA Top Stars 2010

NEPTUNE (2002) 8 th planet from Sun. Springtime on Neptune with temperatures of minus 400 degrees F at cloud tops and wind gusts up to 900 mph. Caroline Goode NASA Top Stars 2010

PLUTO (2010) Dwarf planet ~an icy and dark molasses-colored, mottled world Caroline Goode NASA Top Stars 2010

COMET 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 (2006) A comet’s break-up as it approaches the Sun Caroline Goode NASA Top Stars 2010

THE MAGIC OF HUBBLE CONTINUES…. Caroline Goode NASA Top Stars 2010

CREDITS All images and notes (except the Sun and Mars) were from the NASA/Space Telescope Institute (STSci) at: Caroline Goode NASA Top Stars 2010