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Praying Mantis in the Cloud

08 January 2010 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

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

The dark sil­hou­ette of a man­tis stands out in this cloud of glow­ing gas. NASA’s Hub­ble Space Tele­scope reveals details inside the star-producing neb­ula N81 in the Small Mag­el­lanic Cloud.

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