Category: Plants/Flowers
Infrared Sunflowers
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
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.
Green Ring
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GLIMPSE-MIPSGAL Teams
A bubble of hot gas and glowing dust sculpted by a massive star shapes a green ring or flower in this image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope.
Swirling Rose
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
A stunning swirl of stars resembles the spiral petals of a rose in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
Wads of Gum
Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2
Wads of nebula abound in the area surrounding the star-forming region known as Gum 19 in this image from the European Southern Observatory.
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By The Riviera Times
By CritterKeeper
By Sarah Q. Brett