This is cool. Click the pictures to see them bigger.
One picture is of the well known Eagle Nebula, also called the Pillars of Creation. It is a stellar nursery. Its energy creates a billowing tower of cold gas and dust that is 9.5 light-years high, about twice the distance from our Sun to the next nearest star.
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The other picture is of the spiral galaxy M51, also known as the Whirlpool Galaxy. This sharpest image ever made of M51 illustrates a spiral galaxy's grand design, from its curving spiral arms, where young stars reside, to its yellowish central core, home to older stars.
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The top of the Eagle Nebula looks like a demon kissing a giant caterpillar.
I wonder what they'd have named it if they'd seen that.
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