Astronomy Posters

THE CONE NEBULA

The Cone nebula is actually a pillar of gas and dust. Called the Cone Nebula (NGC 2264) — so named because, in ground-based images, it has a conical shape — this giant pillar resides in a turbulent star-forming region.

This picture, taken by the newly installed Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) aboard NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, shows the upper 2.5 light-years of the nebula, a height that equals 23 million roundtrips to the Moon. The entire nebula is 7 light-years long. The Cone Nebula resides 2,500 light-years away in the constellation Monoceros.

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COMET HALE-BOPP SIGNED

This is the most beautiful shot of 1995's Comet Hale-Bopp, a huge naked-eye comet that displayed a "bifurcal" tail. The blue tail was the ion tail, glowing gases which always pointed away from the sun, as it was produced by the solar wind, and the pinkish dust tail, from solid particles stripped off the nucleus, which always points into the orbital track of the comet.

Signed in silver by Tom Bopp,the co-discoverer of the comet. (see a DETAIL)

RHO OPHIUCHUS

Back by popular demand! Perhaps the most colorful region of the sky, this area around the giant star Antares was unavailable the past few years.

Blue nebulae are "reflection" nebulae, and are usually starlight scattered off thin dust clouds. The other colors are "emission" nebulae, which glow under their own light from starlight energies exciting various gas clouds, like a flourescent light. Hang in any direction.

Photo from the UK Schmidt Southern Observatory by David Malin.

HUBBLE ANTENNA GALAXIES POSTER

Like many other objects, Hubble has resolved the enigmatic Antenna Galaxy, which looked to Earthbound 'scopes like a fuzzy insect, into reality: The Antennae are a pair of interacting galaxies, caught in each other's gravitational pull, and tearing each other apart.

TRIFID NEBULA

One of the most popular targets of astronomers, the Trifid Nebula in Sagittarius is one of the most colorful nebulae in the sky.

THE PLEIADES

There are lots of posters of the "Seven Sisters", or Pleiades Cluster, but this one has the best color, detail, and quality. Blue nebulae are "reflection" nebulae, and are usually starlight scattered off thin dust clouds.

THE HORSEHEAD NEBULA

The famous Horsehead Nebula, a dark column of dust extending into a red nebula, is in the constellation of Orion, a stellar nursery of colorful nebulae.

ANDROMEDA GALAXY

The nearest galaxy, also known as M-31 ,is a twin to our Milky Way. It can be seen as a fuzzy patch in the Northern Sky. It is 100,000 light-years across, and 3 million light years away.

EAGLE NEBULA PILLAR (M-16)

7000 light years away in the constellation Serpens, north of Scorpio. This is another of the Eagle's "pillars of creation" but with much finer detail, from the dusty base to the blast of ultraviolet light at the top. Brilliant new blue stars shine like Christmas tree lights, while unseen stars illumnate from within and silhouette the column from behind. Read more from hubblesite.org.

(Travis Rector, NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage team-STSCi-AURA)

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HUBBLE LAGOON NEBULA

A beautiful Hubble photograph of the interior of the Lagoon Nebula in the Sagittarius star field looking towards the center of the galaxy.

M42 (ORION NEBULA) AND ENVIRONS

Photographed by astrophotographer extrordinaire David Malin, using his technique for bringing out color and contrast. These are the "stars" seen in the sword of Orion, about 1500 light years distant.

TARANTULA NEBULA

A new Hubble image, the Tarantula Nebula is a huge nebula in another galaxy, The Large Magellanic Cloud, an irregular galaxy which is a satellite to our own Milky Way. Notice the preponderance of older red stars in the outer region.

HUBBLE DEEP FIELD

Finally! Our most-requested Hubble image. Scientists aimed Hubble at a dark void in the sky, and this is what they saw! It's teeming with hundreds of colorful galaxies of all types and sizes.

HUBBLE ETA CARINAE

For years, astronomers wondered what was at the heart of the huge Eta Carina nebula, one of the brightest objects in the Southern sky. At the center of the nebula lies the Homunculus, which astronomers attributed to a pulsating, variable star.

Hubble reveals reveals the true Homunculus, a bi-lobed explosion of such a huge scale, our solar system would be a speck on one of the balloons of expanding material.

2 FACES OF MARS

The two completely different regions of the Red Planet. The top shows the canyonlands and volcanoes of Tharsis, the other the heavily cratered highlands and Syrtis Major. Very detailed.

MARS PATHFINDER PANORAMA POSTER

This 32" (36" with black border) full 180-degree panorama was taken by the Mars Pathfinder.

SOLAR SYSTEM POSTER

The best solar system poster we've seen. Chock full of the latest information, just printed this fall. Large and detailed. Moons, comets, asteroids, planets...everything under the Sun!

THE MOON (EUROPEAN VERSION)

This poster is a nicely detailed moon globe, with nomenclature. There are two projections at the bottom of the poster, a polar view and a farside view. Ideal for astronaut autographs.

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THE MOON

This most widely seen view of the full moon was produced by Norm Sperling, an editor of Sky and Telescope magazine in the 1980's.

It is actually a composite of two half (quarter) moons assembled photographically side by side.

The word "Moon" is shown in several different languages at the top.