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Stars in Stars

ESO

Bril­liant blue stars of NGC 6604 are scat­tered widely in the rich starfields of Ser­pens, the Ser­pent in this image from the Euro­pean South­ern Observatory.

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Dusty Starfish

ESA/NASA Hub­ble

A dusty starfish curls its legs in this image of NGC 2082 from the NASA/ESA Hub­ble Space Tele­scope.

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Ripples in an Explosion of Light

ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech/STScI

Waves of gas and dust rip­ple through this image of the Large Mag­el­lanic Cloud from the Her­schel and Spitzer space telescopes.

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Stars in the Belly

ESO

Bril­liant stars lurk in the belly of stel­lar dragon or bird with sweep­ing wings in this image from the Euro­pean South­ern Observatory.

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Just a Boulder

NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

Rocks and waves of sand dom­i­nate this image of Mars from the HiRISE cam­era. How­ever, some find an mys­te­ri­ous rectangular-shaped boul­der stick­ing out of a hillside.

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The ancient peo­ples saw pic­tures in the sky. From those pat­terns in the heav­ens, ancient sto­ry­tellers cre­ated leg­ends about heroes, maid­ens, drag­ons, bears, cen­taurs, dogs and myth­i­cal crea­tures…
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