The Case of the Warped Galactic Ring Wall Art including Frame t-shirt This colour image of the

This colour image of the region known as NGC 2264 — an area of sky that includes the sparkling blue baubles of the Christmas Tree star cluster and the Cone Nebula — was created from data taken through four different filters (B

whereas the southern shell was probably created by a slow shock wave (30 kilometers per second or 67

The astrophysicist from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching can get intoxicated by the magnificent total view of the firmament

dust and young stars

Day: About 17 Earth hours

The Case of the Warped Galactic Ring Wall Art including Frame t-shirt This colour image of theIn a strange twist of science, astronomers using the Herschel Space Observatory have discovered that a suspected ring at the center of our galaxy is warped for reasons they cannot explain. This image from Herschel, an infrared European Space Agency led mission with important NASA contributions, reveals the ring with greater clarity than ever before. It can be seen as the yellow loop that appears to have two lobes. In fact, the ring, which is a