Posts Tagged ‘M16’

Glowing Eagle

23 January 2012 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

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.

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Ink Blobs

21 March 2011 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: NASA, ESA

Ink blobs blot out the glow of the sur­round­ing neb­ula in this image from the NASA/ESA Hub­ble Space Tele­scope.

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Ink Smears

06 December 2010 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA

Dark inky clouds smear the cos­mic can­vas of the Eagle Neb­ula in this image from NASA’s Hub­ble Space Tele­scope.

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Dragons behind the Pillars

02 October 2009 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

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

There be drag­ons in the “Pil­lars of Cre­ation.”

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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 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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