The colorful planetary nebula, NGC 2438, formed after the death of a Sun-like star. It appears to lie on the outskirts of the open star cluster, M46 (NGC 2437), when in fact it is in the foreground between us and the star cluster. via NASA https://ift.tt/3EODcex
“Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.” – Khalil Gibran
“The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.” – Vladimir Nabokov
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Dwarf galaxies NGC 147 (left) and NGC 185 stand side by side in this sharp telescopic portrait. The two are not-often-imaged satellites of M31, the great spiral Andromeda Galaxy, some 2.5 million light-years away. Their separation on the sky, less than one degree across a pretty field of view, translates to only about 35 thousand […]
An artists’ impression of the Mariner 10 mission, the first mission to perform an interplanetary gravity assist. via NASA https://ift.tt/2YfgbBO
“Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don’t want it.” – Duke Ellington
“Nature does nothing in vain.” – Aristotle
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The Horsehead Nebula is one of the most famous nebulae on the sky. It is visible as the dark indentation to the orange emission nebula at the far right of the featured picture. The horse-head feature is dark because it is really an opaque dust cloud that lies in front of the bright emission nebula. […]