Category: Plants/Flowers
Baubles and Flowers
04 January 2012
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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.
A twisting and turning sea
10 November 2011
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Credit: NASA/ESA and Hubble
Dark dust twists and turns in this image of the Carina Nebula from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
Starry Garden of Petals and Waves
06 October 2011
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Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/L. Allen (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA) and the IRAC GTO Team
A starry garden full of dusty petals and waves of gas fill this image of the Coronet Cluster from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope.
Infrared Sunflowers
22 September 2011
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Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SINGS Team
Glowing dust lanes of this spiral galaxy resemble a sunflower in an image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope.
Carina Blues
22 June 2011
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Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/M. Povich (Penn State Univ.)
We are used to seeing a rainbow of colors when we gaze out into the universe. But light beyond the range of our eyes is no less beautiful as we see in this image of Eta Carinae from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope.
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