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All Wound Up

by CritterKeeper on Aug.31, 2010, under General

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

Arms of dark dust tightly wind around the bright cen­ter of NGC 2787 in this image from NASA’s Hub­ble Space Telescope.

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Blowing Bubbles

by CritterKeeper on Aug.30, 2010, under General

Credit: NASA, ESA, Moham­mad Heydari-Malayeri (Obser­va­toire de Paris, France)

New stars in N83B are blow­ing bub­bles in this image from NASA’s Hub­ble Space Tele­scope.

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Solving a mystery

by CritterKeeper on Aug.20, 2010, under General

Credit: NASA, ESA, E. Jullo (JPL/LAM), P. Natara­jan (Yale) and J-P. Kneib (LAM).

Some­times what we can’t see is as impor­tant as what we can. Using new tech­niques, astronomers are help­ing solve the big mys­tery of dark energy in the Uni­verse and per­haps its ulti­mate fate.

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Ancient Ridges

by CritterKeeper on Aug.19, 2010, under General

Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona)

Look­ing like the closeup of an elephant’s hide, polyg­o­nal ridges form odd geo­met­ric pat­terns on Mars.

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Galactic Hook

by CritterKeeper on Aug.13, 2010, under General

Credit: NASA and ESA

The Uni­verse seems to mar­vel in the weird. A hook, like a cos­mic ques­tion mark, makes NGC 4696 stand out from its more shape­less ellip­ti­cal galax­ies in this image from NASA’s Hub­ble Space Telescope.

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An Island Universe

by CritterKeeper on Aug.10, 2010, under General

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

A majes­tic face-on spi­ral, known as NGC 4911, is an island uni­verse amid a thou­sand other galax­ies in this deep image by NASA’s Hub­ble Space Telescope.

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WISE Image of Dusty Sisters

by CritterKeeper on Jul.28, 2010, under General

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE Team

Dozens of stars in the Pleiades star clus­ter glow through a cool mist in this image from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Sur­vey Explorer, or WISE.

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A Cosmic Painting

by CritterKeeper on Jul.07, 2010, under General

Credit: ESA

R Coro­nae Aus­tralis lights up wispy blue clouds of gas and dust of this intense star–form­ing region 420 light-years from Earth.

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California

by CritterKeeper on May.13, 2010, under General

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE Team

A wave of gas and dust that looks much like Cal­i­for­nia (if you turn it a bit) runs diag­o­nally through this image from NASA’s WISE satellite.

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