Category: Bugs, birds & animals
Transforming Galactic Brush
Credit: ESA/NASA Hubble
Even in a wide open Universe, with huge empty expanses between stars, gravity still finds a way to bring galaxies close together as in this deformed galaxy known as Markarian 779.
Secrets in Carina’s Dust
Credit: ESO/T. Preibisch
Sea monsters, birds and mystic mountains hide in this detailed infrared image of the Carina Nebula from ESO’s Very Large Telescope.
Of Ergs, Noses and Flocks of Birds
Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
The transition from winter to spring on Mars must be an interesting time. As the sun rises higher in the sky and temperatures rise from extreme cold to bitter cold, geysers of carbon dioxide begin to erupt in geysers and cracks of escaping gas.
Snaking Stars
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.
Floppy Ears
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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By The Riviera Times
By CritterKeeper
By Sarah Q. Brett