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avdhoeven wrote:Here is the Hubble image of M57 combined with data from the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii. The data was kindly provided by Robert Gendler.
Based on observations made with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, and obtained from the Hubble Legacy Archive, which is a collaboration between the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI/NASA), the Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF/ESA) and the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre (CADC/NRC/CSA) and data from the Subaru 8.2 m telescope (NAOJ). Processing: André van der Hoeven/Robert Gendler
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A Smoke Ring and a Shooting Staravdhoeven wrote:Last summer I started processing some Hubble data for the hidden treasures competition. When browsing through the hubble archives today I found this, previously not released, data of M57 from September 2011. I processed this data with the following result. This image shows the ring nebula with a detail never shown before anywhere in the world (as far as I know...).
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In 1998 an image of this nebula was released by the Hubble team, based on WFC2 data (older instrument). This image was taken with the WFC3 instrument. A comparison can be seen here:
comparison
What I noticed is a strong motion of a star on the right hand side of the nebula which moved clearly in the 15 years between the two images:
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Based on observations made with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, and obtained from the Hubble Legacy Archive, which is a collaboration between the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI/NASA), the Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF/ESA) and the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre (CADC/NRC/CSA). Processing: André van der Hoeven (http://www.astro-photo.nl)
