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Sleepy Not

Credit: NASA/CXC/SAO.

Sleepy look­ing eyes stare out from the galac­tic core in this image from NASA’s Chan­dra X-ray Tele­scope. But this scene is noth­ing but serene with a wide range of stel­lar evo­lu­tion underway.

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Red Sharks

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/S. Stolovy (Spitzer Sci­ence Center/Caltech)

Fil­a­ments of star clouds toward the core of our Milky Way Galaxy weave pat­terns that resem­ble a shark or a dragon in this image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Tele­scope.

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Long-legged Galaxy

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

A long-legged, dusty spi­ral galaxy walks the neigh­bor­hood of a larger, bright galaxy known as NGC 1275 in this NASA Hub­ble Space Tele­scope image.

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Galactic Hook

Credit: NASA and ESA

The Uni­verse seems to mar­vel in the weird. A hook, like a cos­mic ques­tion mark, makes NGC 4696 stand out from its more shape­less ellip­ti­cal galax­ies in this image from NASA’s Hub­ble Space Telescope.

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Barred Eye

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

Clus­ters of hot, blue stars swirl along the star lanes of barred spi­ral NGC 1672.

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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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