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The '8 o'clock arc' is a gravitationally lensed galaxy at redshift 2.7, in which many stars are currently seen to form. |
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Abell 2218 is a gravitaitional lensing cluster. |
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Image from the WSRT of NGC 6946 |
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Different rendering of the halo of NGC 891 |
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The Crab Pulsar and the Crab Nebula are one impressive pair as seen with ASTRON's Westerbork and ESO's VLT telescopes. Only 10 miles across but 500.000 times as massive as the Earth, the pulsar, a cosmic lighthouse spinning 30 times each second, sweeps around bundles of bright radio waves. In this image we see a 1-second snapshot of these peaked waves as they reach Westerbork/PuMaII after 6000 years of interstellar travel. High-resolution version (8000x5000, 2MB). credit: ASTRON/ESO/AURA |
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Images of the HI in Dwingeloo 1 and 2 |
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An HI mosaic of the nearby starbursting dwarf galaxy IC10, made with the Westerbork telescope. |
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Another image of the same galaxy, IC10 |