Archive for May 3rd, 2012

Looking Up – Bob Eklund

HUBBLE SEES “SEARCHLIGHT BEAMS” COMING FROM NEBULA: The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has been at the cutting edge of research into what happens to stars like our Sun at the ends of their lives. One stage that stars pass through as they run out of nuclear fuel is called the preplanetary (or protoplanetary) nebula stage. A new Hubble image of the “Egg Nebula” shows one of the best views [...]