Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Bullet Time in the Matrix

Hubble has captured some images of high-speed, youthful stars tearing through interstellar gases. The stellar winds streaming out from the stars collides with the surrounding gas and creates these wonderful bow shocks. The release does not mention which wavelengths are imaged in these pictures, which would be an interesting tidbit of information. Full-size here, download page and overview here, full press release here. The top right image is most impressive at this scale, but in the full size versions the others are pretty spectacular too. Now we need to track them and see which nebula is "The One" who dodges these cosmic bullets.

1 comment:

Dean Wormer said...

Those are really beautiful. Love that kind of stuff.