Born In Space
Welcome to Born in Space! In this wep-app, you will be able to have a look at the picture of the day chosen by the NASA. You can also enter your birthdate in the search bar to discover what was the “picture of the day” on the day you were born. Unfortunately, this feature will only work if you are born after June 16th, 1995, this date included. But nothing prevents you from trying it out with your friends’ birthdates! You can also use your personal gallery to save pictures from the dates that have marked your life, such as marriages, births… and directly access these images links. On this site, you will also find a section where to type a keyword that will you return you a collection of images, to let you find your favourite planet, for example!
Picture at your birthday :
Oh what a tangled web a planetary nebula can weave. The Red Spider Planetary Nebula shows the complex structure that can result when a normal star ejects its outer gases and becomes a white dwarf star. Officially tagged NGC 6537, this two-lobed symmetric planetary nebula houses one of the hottest white dwarfs ever observed, probably as part of a binary star system. Internal winds flowing out from the central stars, have been measured in excess of 1,000 kilometers per second. These winds expand the nebula, flow along the nebula's walls, and cause waves of hot gas and dust to collide. Atoms caught in these colliding shocks radiate light shown in the featured false-color infrared picture by the James Webb Space Telescope. The Red Spider Nebula lies toward the constellation of the Archer (Sagittarius). Its distance is not well known but has been estimated by some to be about 4,000 light-years.
In this section you are able to find some pictures with a keyword about space.