National Geographic Shows Stars

National Geografic offers a small but very beautiful slide-show about the stars.

The neutron star, located at a distance of 50 000 light years from Earth. Image courtesy NASA

Red supergiant V838 Monocerotis. NASA / ESA / Hubble Heritage Team (STScI / AURA)

Infrared image of clouds of dust surrounding the star of the Seven Sisters, also known as the Pleiades. Photograph courtesy NASA

Red Rectangle Nebula. It consists of gas and dust emitted during the explosion of a dying star at the center of the nebula. Photograph courtesy NASA / ESA / Hans Van Winckel (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium) / Martin Cohen (University of California, Berkeley)

Snapshot cluster Kvintuplet. Photograph courtesy NASA

Constellation Cassiopeia. Photograph courtesy NASA / Hubble Heritage Team (STScI / AURA)

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