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Floppy Ears
01 February 2012
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Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/E. Churchwell (University of Wisconsin)
An elephant with big floppy ears peers from in this cloud of cold gas and dust in an image of RCW 49 from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope.
Striking Starry Eye
27 January 2012
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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.Glowing Eagle
23 January 2012
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Credit: ESA/Herschel/PACS/SPIRE/Hill, Motte, HOBYS Key Programme Consortium; X-ray: ESA/XMM-Newton/EPIC/XMM-Newton-SOC/Boulanger
A glowing eagle soars upward in this far-infrared image of the Eagle Nebula from ESA’s Herschel Telescope.
Stellar Factory
19 January 2012
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Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA
Standing and flying birds hide in a jungle of eyes in a star-making factory known as Cygnus X in this image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope.
Cassiopeian Dragon
11 January 2012
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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.
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