Posts Tagged ‘star birth’

Cosmic Pterodactyl

03 May 2011 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE Team

A giant star-forming region sets the per­fect back­drop for a cos­mic ptero­dactyl clutch­ing a gem.

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Dark Dragons

09 November 2010 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/M. Povich (Penn State Univ.)

A dark dragon appears to shoot out of a bright neb­ula in this image of M17 from NASA’s Spitzer Space Tele­scope.

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Dragon nest

19 January 2010 Written by CritterKeeper 0 Comments

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

A firestorm brews in this dragon nest. Whether you see a dragon ris­ing above or an amoeba with antenna in this image from NASA’s Hub­ble Space Tele­scope, NGC 604 is one of the largest known areas of star birth. NGC 604 is a vast star cloud, larger than the Orion Neb­ula and con­tains stars only about 3 mil­lion years old. More than 200 bright blue stars lie within this glow­ing cloud of gas and dust.

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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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