Category: Water Creatures

Whale of a Galaxy

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.

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Jellyfish Supernova

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.

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Galactic Puffer

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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Glowing Fans

Credit: ESA/Hub­ble & NASA

Fans of glow­ing inter­stel­lar gas dom­i­nate a neb­u­lar lagoon in this image from the NASA/ESA Hub­ble Space Telescope.

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WISE Jellyfish

Credit: NASA/JPL–Caltech/WISE Team

A col­or­ful jel­ly­fish floats in this image from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Sur­vey Explorer.

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