Tuesday 29 October 2013

Stephan's Quintet Galaxies (Hubble Telescope) Case For The iPad Mini

Here's a great iPad case from Zazzle featuring a Hubble-related design. Maybe you'd like to see your name on it? Click to personalize and see what it's like!

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Hubble photograph of the Stephan's Quintet galaxies This is a Hubble Space Telescope photo of the galaxies in the Stephan's Quintet, which is also known as the Hickson Compact Group 92. The galaxies are NGC 7320 (upper left), NGC 7319 (top right), NGC 7318A and NGC 7318B (below the previous two), and NGC 7317 (lower left). Note that some of these may not be visible on all products. Surrounding the galaxies is the black background of space, with multi-coloured stars. Credit: NASA, ESA and the Hubble SM4 ERO Team Note that any distortion in the preview image is caused by compression artefacts, and won't be ed. You can personalise the design further if you'd prefer, such as by adding your name or other text, or adjusting the image - just click 'Customize' to see all the options. See more in my shop If you like this product, you can find more like it in my store: Click here to view all the other items with this design. Click here to see other space designs. Click here to visit the storefront and view all designs and products.

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Monogram Cassiopeia, Milky Ways Youngest Supernova Lamp

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Starry Sky Print

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Swirls of gas and dust reside in this ethereal-looking region of star formation seen by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. This majestic view, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), reveals a region where low-mass, infant stars and their much more massive stellar neighbors reside. A shroud of blue haze gently lingers amid the stars. Known as LH 95, this is just one of the hundreds of star-forming systems, called associations, located in the LMC some 160,000 light-years distant.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration

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view from the Hubble telescope of the omega swan nebula

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M51, whose name comes from being the 51st entry in Charles Messier's catalog, is considered to be a classic example of a spiral galaxy. At a distance of about 30 million light years from Earth, it is also one of the brightest spirals in the night sky. A composite image of M51, also known as the Whirlpool Galaxy, shows the majesty of its structure in a dramatic new way through several of NASA's orbiting observatories.
Image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Wesleyan Univ./R. Kilgard; UV: NASA/JPL-Caltech; Optical: NASA/ESA/S. Beckwith & The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA); IR: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Az/R. Kennicutt

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Welcome to the Space Room Decal

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Waiting for clearance in geostationary orbit to leave the home planet and explore new worlds in outer space. Digital artwork by Liz Molnar. Planets, stars, space clouds, lights were made with basic Photoshop effects and brushes, planets' surfaces created from photos.

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