Posts Tagged ‘Cepheus’
Cassiopeian Dragon
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA
A dragon lurks in the vast spaces between constellations Cassiopeia and Cepheus in the image from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer.
Whorls of an Old Star
Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA
A odd-shaped whorl of gas and dust surround a star that has reached the end of its life.
“G” Whiz
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)
Moving along the alphabet, we find a lowercase letter “G” within the swirls of the interacting spiral galaxies of Arp 194. Previously, we explored this odd galaxy and noticed a pair of owl eyes staring out of this image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. Nearly everywhere we look in the universe we see galaxies. And even though galaxies are far apart, gravity pulls them together. Eventually they collide or interact.
WISE Wizard of the Stars
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA
A wizard of space and time sits in the constellation of Cepheus in this image of NGC 7380 from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer or WISE.
Starry Ducky
Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University)
Resembling a starry ducky, a pair of faraway galaxies known as IRAS 21101+5810, merge together in a sky crowded with nearby stars from our own Milky Way.
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