Category: Bugs, birds & animals

Snaking Stars

03 February 2012 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: ESA/NASA Hub­ble

Stars swirl around the bright core of barred spi­ral NGC 1073 in this image from the NASA/ESA Hub­ble Space Telescope.

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Floppy Ears

01 February 2012 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/E. Church­well (Uni­ver­sity of Wisconsin)

An ele­phant with big floppy ears peers from in this cloud of cold gas and dust in an image of RCW 49 from NASA’s Spitzer Space Tele­scope.

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Diffuse Butterfly

26 January 2012 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: ESA/Hub­ble & NASA

A faint and dif­fuse but­ter­fly shape sur­rounds this image of an ellip­ti­cal galaxy from the NASA/ESA Hub­ble Space Tele­scope.

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Glowing Eagle

23 January 2012 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: ESA/Herschel/PACS/SPIRE/Hill, Motte, HOBYS Key Pro­gramme Con­sor­tium; X-ray: ESA/XMM-Newton/EPIC/XMM-Newton-SOC/Boulanger

A glow­ing eagle soars upward in this far-infrared image of the Eagle Neb­ula from ESA’s Her­schel Telescope.

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Stellar Factory

19 January 2012 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA

Stand­ing and fly­ing birds hide in a jun­gle of eyes in a star-making fac­tory known as Cygnus X in this image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Tele­scope.

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