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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.
A twisting and turning sea
10 November 2011
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Credit: NASA/ESA and Hubble
Dark dust twists and turns in this image of the Carina Nebula from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
Blowing Galactic Bubbles
18 October 2011
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Credit: NASA/ESA
A dwarf irregular galaxy blows galactic bubbles in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
Galaxy Mice
10 June 2010
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Credit: NASA, H. Ford (JHU), G. Illingworth (UCSC/LO), M.Clampin (STScI), G. Hartig (STScI), the ACS Science Team, and ESA
Galaxies dance. At least these two are circling each other in a mouse and mouse game. Astronomers nicknamed these colliding galaxies The Mice because of their long streaming tails of stars, dust and gas. 300 million light years away toward the constellation Coma Berenices, these galaxies are called NGC 4676. They collided 160 million years ago.
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