Category: Fantasy Creatures
Dark Dragons
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/M. Povich (Penn State Univ.)
A dark dragon appears to shoot out of a bright nebula in this image of M17 from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope.
Dragon
Credit: ESO
The twisted remains of a dying star resemble a Chinese dragon in this image of NGC 5189 by the European Southern Observatory.
Spitting Dragon
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.
Dragon Jewels
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.
Dragon nest
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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The ancient peoples saw pictures in the sky. From those patterns in the heavens, ancient storytellers created legends about heroes, maidens, dragons, bears, centaurs, dogs and mythical creatures…Read More
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By The Riviera Times
By CritterKeeper
By Sarah Q. Brett