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Star Horses
18 August 2009
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Credit: Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Livio (STScI)
Taken in 2008, the Hubble Space Telescope focused on this area of new star birth in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The stormy looking sea looks to be home to a seahorse, or star horse. Astronomers also call this nebula NGC 2074. The star horse is a dark area floating in background of blues, greens and reds. One day, this dark dusty area will be home to new stars.
Tarantula
17 August 2009
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Credit: ESO/IDA/Danish 1.5 m/R. Gendler, C. C. Thöne, C. Féron, and J.-E. Ovaldsen
I don’t like spiders very much. Blame it on an incident from when I was a teenager. I find them fascinating but I don’t want them crawling on me. The idea of a spider with legs that stretch out for a 1,000 light years hovering over me at night might give me scary dreams until I see how beautiful some spiders can be.
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