Legacy Astronomical Images > Miscellaneous Series > Image Compositions Unit

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These Image Compositions show collages of Radio-astronomical Images and other Images. This section contains mostly submissions to the NRAO/AUI Image Contest.

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The Crab Nebula Rising Over the Alps
Description: This collage shows a radio image of the Crab Nebula over a mountain valley in the Swiss alps. The Crab Nebula is the remnant of a supernova explosion recorded by Chinese astronomers in 1054 AD. The core of the original star has collapsed to an…

Dave and the Girls Fly a Kite by the Light of 3C58
Description: The sky in this collage shows a radio image the supernova remnant 3C58 The radio nebula is energized by a recently discovered pulsar. The beautiful filamentary structure of the nebula is brought out in this recent radio images, which was made using…

VLA Family -- Cyg X-3
Description: A VLA 'family picture' showing relativistic jet sources of both galactic and extragalactic origin together in the same field thanks to a happy line-of-sight coincidence. The central object is the famous microquasar Cygnus X-3, originally discovered…

Sacred Astrometry
Description: IM Pegasi (HR 8703) is an active binary star system located approximately 100 parsecs or 300 light years from Earth. It serves as the guide star for the NASA / Stanford Gravity Probe B Mission (GP-B) which will be testing the warping and twisting of…

Eye on the Universe
Description: NASA / Stanford's Gravity Probe B (GP-B) Mission is testing Einstein's theory of General Relativity by measuring how Earth warps and twists spacetime around it. Shown above, the GP-B spacecraft orbits Earth at an altitude of approximately 650 km in a…

Novi
Description: This composite shows an imaginative composition using images of some of the most prominent supernovae and supernova remnants, both from our own Galaxy and others. The remnants included are 1) the Crab Nebula, the remnant of a supernova in our own…

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