Posts Tagged ‘European Southern Observatory’

Rosy Nursery

Credit: ESO
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Secrets in Carina’s Dust

Credit: ESO/T. Preibisch

Sea mon­sters, birds and mys­tic moun­tains hide in this detailed infrared image of the Carina Neb­ula from ESO’s Very Large Telescope.

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Striking Starry Eye

Credit: ESO

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trands of cold gas and dust stream from the cen­ter of this strik­ing image of the Helix Neb­ula from the Euro­pean South­ern Obser­va­tory.

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Holy Galacticus

Credit: ESO/Oleg Maliy

Some­thing about this image of the spi­ral galaxy Messier 96 from the Euro­pean South­ern Obser­va­tory has me awestruck.

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Tinker Bell Goes to the Stars

Credit: ESO

Tin­ker Bell has man­aged to get her­self into the stars in this image from the Euro­pean South­ern Observatory.

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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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