Category: Bugs, birds & animals
Wings of Cepheus
NASA/ESA Hubble
A wing, or fan, sweeps across a star in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
Smoky Horse
NASA/ESA Hubble
A smoky horse rises from a pink cloud of hydrogen gas in this spectacular new image of the Horseahd Nebula from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
The Eye of the Bird
ESO
A seagull glares from a cloud of gas glowing by the light of a new star in the eye of the bird in this image of the Seagull Nebula from the European Southern Observatory.
Butterfly of Combined Light
X-ray: NASA/CXC/U.Mich./S.Oey, IR: NASA/JPL, Optical: ESO/WFI/2.2-m
When NASA combines images from different telescopes they create amazing works of art and we learn a few things.
Strangely Shaped Ray
ESO
While this starry vista seems tranquil, the events that shaped the Pencil Nebula were nothing but quiet. Stars are born and stars die and when they do, they create amazing stellar landscapes. A star, perhaps a massive one, exploded to sculpt this beautiful starry scene that resembles an exotic bird head or a strangely shaped ray of light.
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