EARTH SCIENCE NEWS - LIGHTNING LIGHTNING Washington Monument and Lightning Bolt Lightning Display Over Surfers Paradise Queensland Lightning Display Over Central Florida The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a striking view of a multiple star system called XZ Tauri, its neighbour HL Tauri and several nearby young stellar objects. In the new Hubble image of the galaxy M74 we can also see a smattering of bright pink regions decorating the spiral arms. An unprecedented detailed close-up view of the inner region of the disk taken with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph shows a warp in the disk. Appearing like a winged fairy-tale creature poised on a pedestal, this object is actually a billowing tower of cold gas and dust rising from a stellar nursery called the Eagle Nebula. This image, taken with Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys shows a part the globular cluster NGC 6752. Behind the bright stars of the cluster a denser collection of faint stars is visible, a previously unknown dwarf spheroidal galaxy. Using images from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers have discovered fast-moving wave-like features in the dusty disc around the nearby star AU Microscopii.