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Fairies

01 September 2009 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

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

Not all crea­tures that we see in space images have to be real. I see a winged, fairy-tale crea­ture stand­ing on a pedestal in this image.

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The Eagle

03 August 2009 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, J. Hes­ter and P. Scowen (Ari­zona State University)

This eagle is a nurs­ery for new stars. In this dra­matic image from the Hub­ble Space Tele­scope taken in 1995, the baby stars are being born from eggs, small pock­ets of gas and dust. These columns of dust, like sta­lag­mites in a cave are light years long. The Eagle Neb­ula, or M-16, is about 7,000 light years from Earth in the con­stel­la­tion Ser­pens, the Serpent.

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