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Cassiopeian Dragon
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 glance over a starry shoulder
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration
Some sort of cosmic animal glances over its starry shoulder at a bubble of gas and stars in this image of NGC 4214 from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
A magestic disk
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration; Acknowledgment: M. Crockett and S. Kaviraj (Oxford University, UK), R. O’Connell (University of Virginia), B. Whitmore (STScI), and the WFC3 Scientific Oversight Committee
Dark star lanes and bright yellow stars make a majestic disk of stars in this image of NGC 2841 from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
Starry Presents
Credit: NASA, ESA, and F. Paresce (INAF-IASF, Bologna, Italy), R. O’Connell (University of Virginia, Charlottesville), and the Wide Field Camera 3 Science Oversight Committee
In case you missed our amazing Hubble image countdown to Christmas last year, here is a present to put under the Christmas Tree Nebula.
Red Sharks
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/S. Stolovy (Spitzer Science Center/Caltech)
Filaments of star clouds toward the core of our Milky Way Galaxy weave patterns that resemble a shark or a dragon in this image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope.
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