December 2011 – A Festive Bauble

This delicate shell, photographed by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, appears to float serenely in the depths of space, but this apparent calm hides an inner turmoil. The gaseous envelope formed as the expanding blast wave and ejected material from a supernova tore through the nearby interstellar medium. 

Credit:
NASA & ESA

About the Calendar

Id:cal201112
Year:2011
Month:12

Images

r.titleLarge JPEG
1.5 MB
r.titleMedium JPEG
92.0 KB

File Formats

r.titlePDF
964.8 KB
r.titleSmall PDF
158.1 KB

Also see our


Privacy policy Accelerated by CDN77