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Terrile, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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PLATE 2.3 Radar images of the asteroid 1989 PB made at the Arecibo Observatory near the time of closest approach of 2.5 million miles. The dumbbell-shaped asteroid is about a mile across and rotates with a period of about 4 hours.
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The figure shows an artist's representation of one of the sun's vibrational modes. Courtesy of the National Solar Observatory.
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and the Orion B complex where hot, young stars are being formed. This IRAS image shows the warmest material emitting at 12 ,um as blue, cool material emitting at 60 ,um as green, and the coolest material emitting only at 100 ,um as red.
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In this image red corresponds to radiation from ionized sulfur, green light to ionized hydrogen, and blue light to ionized oxygen. Courtesy of NASA.
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Courtesy of the National Optical Astronomy Observatories. PLATE 2.8 Images taken with the Hat Creek millimeter interferometer show close-up views at a number of different frequencies of a star forming in the Orion Nebula.
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(a) The radio image shows emission from electrons that have been accelerated by the interaction of the supernova blast waves and local magnetic fields.
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shows the cool, starforming regions of the galaxy. Courtesy of the Palomar Observatory, Goddard Space Flight Center, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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Sanders and B.T. Soifer, California Institute of Technology.
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. Jets of energetic particles moving at close to the speed of light emanate from the center of the galaxy and create two bright lobes of radio emission stretching over 360,000 lightyears.
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. The top image shows the variation of total energy in the jet, the middle image the density of matter, and the bottom image the magnetic field strength.
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The 3.5-m mirror blank is a prototype for the 8-m mirrors to be built in the Mirror Laboratory in the 1990s. Courtesy of R
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The typical size of a pixel in an image from SIRTF is indicated.
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PLATE 5.2 The effect of a black hole is obtained from a numerical solution of Einstein's equations that describe the behavior of the gravitational field. The shape of the diagram measures the curvature of space due to the presence of the black hole.
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The study of weather systems on other planets helps scientists understand weather patterns on the earth. Courtesy of NASA.
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