Dienstag, 11. April 2006
Tarantelnebel
Eigentlich eine Wolfsspinnenart, ist die Tarantel auch Namensgeber für einen Sternennebel:
    "April 7, 2006—This leggy beauty harbors more than 200 massive stars in her brood. And there's more to come—new stars appear to be popping out all over this thousand-light-year-wide star nursery.

    Released today by the European Southern Observatory, this image emphasizes the Tarantula Nebula's luminosity and spidery shape—both whipped into being by the intense radiation and winds of the superhot star cluster at the picture's center.

    At 170,000 light-years away, the nebula hangs above one of the closest galaxies to our own. Though near enough, big enough, and bright enough to be seen with the naked eye, the Tarantula Nebula looks best through a large telescope—in this case, the Very Large Telescope, actually a cluster of four 8-meter-wide (26-foot-wide) telescopes in the Chile's Atacama Desert.
    (Quelle: National Geographic)
Zunächst einfach ein schönes Foto, dann aber auch ein eindrucksvoller Hinweis auf die Leistungsfähigkeit des Teleskops in der Atacama (Chile).

Vorher sahen die Fotos vom Tarantelnebel nämlich ungefähr so aus: (Foto der Wikipedia).

Und damit man es vergleichen kann, hier ein Foto einer Tarantel, ebenfalls aus der Wikipedia

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