Category: Plants/Flowers

Giant Ferns of Antoniadi

15 August 2012 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

Dark branches resem­bling giant ferns cross the floor of Anto­niadi Crater in this <a title=“Branched fea­tures on the floor of Anto­niadi Crater” tar­get=” href=“http://www.uahirise.org/ESP_012725_2015”>image from the HiRISE cam­era aboard NASA’s Mars Recon­nais­sance Orbiter.

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Billowy Flower

20 June 2012 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Z. Levay (STScI/AURA/NASA), T.A. Rec­tor (Uni­ver­sity of Alaska Anchor­age) and H. Schweiker (NOAO/AURA/NSF)

Bil­lowy fil­a­ments of gas and dust cre­ate the flower shaped NGC 1999 in this image from the National Sci­ence Foundation’s May­all 4-meter tele­scope on Kitt Peak.

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Rosy Nursery

12 March 2012 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: ESO
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A Shrouded Petal

21 February 2012 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: ESA/NASA Hub­ble
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Baubles and Flowers

04 January 2012 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ.Potsdam/L.Oskinova et al & ESA/XMM-Newton; Opti­cal: AURA/NOAO/CTIO/Univ.Potsdam/L.Oskinova et al

A glow­ing bauble high­lights a star-forming flower in this image from NASA’s Chan­dra X-ray Obser­va­tory.

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