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Another Look at an Elephant Trunk

03 September 2009 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: Canada-France-Hawaii Tele­scope / J.-C. Cuil­lan­dre / Coelum, and the Dig­i­tized Sky Survey

Some see tad­pole. Oth­ers see a fly­ing dragon. I see a fish with a long flow­ing tail. But astronomers look­ing through earth-based tele­scopes saw a trum­pet­ing elephant.

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