Posts Tagged ‘Aquila’

Starfish Dragonfly

08 September 2011 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: ESA/Hub­ble, NASA and R. Sahai

A star near­ing the end of its life unfurls wings of gas and dust resem­bling a drag­on­fly or starfish in this image from the NASA/ESA Hub­ble Space Telescope.

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Phantom Eye

23 September 2010 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: NASA, ESA

An elderly star blows off lay­ers of gas to form this phan­tom eye.

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Deep Space Drama

04 February 2010 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: NASA, ESA and The Hub­ble Her­itage Team (AURA/STScI).

Drama plays out in deep space as a small fish swims from the jaws of a larger creature.

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The ancient peo­ples saw pic­tures in the sky. From those pat­terns in the heav­ens, ancient sto­ry­tellers cre­ated leg­ends about heroes, maid­ens, drag­ons, bears, cen­taurs, dogs and myth­i­cal crea­tures…
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