Category: Water Creatures
The stars in watercolor
30 January 2012
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Credit: X-ray (NASA/CXC/CfA/F.Massaro, et al.); Optical (NASA/STScI/C.P.O’Dea); Radio (NSF/VLA/CfA/F.Massaro, et al.)
Unusual and intriguing shapes float out of this combined starry image from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope.
Arms Entangled
08 December 2011
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Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University)
With arms entangled, this galaxy merger resembles the letters “g” or “j” or perhaps a sea horse with a long tail arching over its head.
Whale of a Galaxy
29 November 2011
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Credit: ESA and NASA
Stars burst into life in the belly of the Whale Galaxy in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
Jellyfish Supernova
21 September 2011
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Credit: NASA/CXC/UCSC/L. Lopez et al.
Tucked away in the constellation Centaurus, a colorful bubble of gas and dust resembling a jellyfish, is all that remains of a great star.
Galactic Puffer
29 August 2011
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Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/STScI
This image of the Large Magellanic Cloud resembles a galactic puffer fish in this image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope.
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