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Spitting Dragon

by CritterKeeper on Mar.31, 2010, under Fantasy Creatures

Credit: NASA, ESA, N. Smith (Uni­ver­sity of Cal­i­for­nia, Berke­ley), and The Hub­ble Her­itage Team (STScI/AURA)

A dragon spits star dust in the Carina Neb­ula. This dragon is part of a huge glow­ing and swirling cloud of gas and dust. In this image we see star birth as well as star death within the Great Neb­ula in Carina, also known as NGC 3372.

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Dragon Jewels

by CritterKeeper on Feb.26, 2010, under Fantasy Creatures

Credit: NASA, ESA and the Hub­ble Her­itage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration

A dragon swoops in to pro­tect its jew­els in this image of NGC 3603. Thou­sands of sparkling new stars form one of the most mas­sive star clus­ters in the Milky Way Galaxy.

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Dragon nest

by CritterKeeper on Jan.19, 2010, under Fantasy Creatures

Credit: NASA and The Hub­ble Her­itage Team (AURA/STScI)

A firestorm brews in this dragon nest. Whether you see a dragon ris­ing above or an amoeba with antenna in this image from NASA’s Hub­ble Space Tele­scope, NGC 604 is one of the largest known areas of star birth. NGC 604 is a vast star cloud, larger than the Orion Neb­ula and con­tains stars only about 3 mil­lion years old. More than 200 bright blue stars lie within this glow­ing cloud of gas and dust.

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Dragon Mist

by CritterKeeper on Nov.05, 2009, under Fantasy Creatures

Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hub­ble Her­itage Team (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Col­lab­o­ra­tion

A brown­ish dragon rises from the blue mist in this image of a star–form­ing area by NASA’s Hub­ble Space Tele­scope.

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Monsters of a starry sea

by CritterKeeper on Sep.24, 2009, under Fantasy Creatures

Credit: NASA, ESA, N. Smith (Uni­ver­sity of Cal­i­for­nia, Berke­ley), and The Hub­ble Her­itage Team (STScI/AURA)

Like sea ser­pents rid­ing the waves, a group of crea­tures rise out of the gas and dust of the Carina Neb­ula. All week, we’ve been explor­ing the way the swirls in the star cloud look like ani­mals; a swift, cater­pil­lar and an eagle.

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Starman

by CritterKeeper on Sep.16, 2009, under Fantasy Creatures

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. A. Guter­muth (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)

Head glow­ing red, with crazy hair, I see a star­man float­ing in this image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Tele­scope. This reflec­tion neb­ula is actu­ally NGC 1333. Through the dusty cloud, a dense group of stars are being formed. The young stars in NGC 1333 are not one large clus­ter but two sep­a­rate clus­ters. One in the red area and another in the denser parts of the neb­ula shown in green and yellow.

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Fairies

by CritterKeeper on Sep.01, 2009, under Fantasy Creatures

Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hub­ble Her­itage Team STScI/AURA)

Not all crea­tures that we see in space images have to be real. I see a winged, fairy-tale crea­ture stand­ing on a pedestal in this image.

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