Archive for September, 2010

Phantom Eye

23 September 2010 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: NASA, ESA

An elderly star blows off lay­ers of gas to form this phan­tom eye.

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Colossal Waves

22 September 2010 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: NASA, ESA

Colos­sal waves break on the grainy land­scape deep within the glow­ing gas of the Lagoon Nebula.

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Creator of Stars

20 September 2010 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: NASA/ESA and The Hub­ble Her­itage Team (STScI/AURA)

A great open mouth appears to swal­low stars in this image from NASA’s Hub­ble Space Tele­scope. Instead, this vast cloud of glow­ing hydro­gen is a giant cre­ator of stars; a neb­ula where stars are born.

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Shark teeth and dust devils

17 September 2010 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: ESA/Hub­ble and NASA

Dust devil tracks play across the sand dunes and boul­der fields in Bunge Crater in this image from the Mars Recon­nais­sance Orbiters HIiRISE camera.

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Jumping Fish

15 September 2010 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: ESA/Hub­ble and NASA

This galaxy in this NASA Hub­ble Space Tele­scope image reminds me of a jump­ing salmon.

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