Category: Fantasy Creatures
Cassiopeian Dragon
11 January 2012
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Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA
A dragon lurks in the vast spaces between constellations Cassiopeia and Cepheus in the image from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer.
Rich Tapestries
07 April 2011
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Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE Team
Rich colors spill across a tapestry of dust and gas in this image of the Rho Ophiuchi star cloud from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE.
Dragons of Mars
02 March 2011
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Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
A dragon, tongue flicking out, struts along this rocky landscape on Mars in this image from NASA’s HiRISE camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Filaments of Medusa
02 February 2011
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Credit: H. Schweiker/NOAO/AURA/NSF and T. A. Rector/University of Alaska Anchorage and NOAO/AURA/NSF
Braided filaments of glowing gas and dust snake around the dim Medusa Nebula in this image from National Optical Astronomy Observatory, or NAOA.
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