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Christmas Tree Cluster, Fox Fur Nebula, Cone Nebula
Happy Holidays, everyone! xx
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Top: The Orion Nebula
Bottom: The Veil Nebula
Nebulas are mesmerizing sights…
Just reblogging again because
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NGC 2467 in the Constellation of Orion by NASA, ESA, Orsola De Marco
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Arp 147
In this beautiful image shared on the Chandra X-Ray Observatory you can see a spiral galaxy (right) which has collided with an elliptical galaxy (left) thus triggering a wave of star formation.
This is a composite image of X-Ray (the pink splotches) and optical (the rest).
(Image credit; NASA and co.)
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