Monday, November 17, 2008

Hubble Telescope photo...or cosmic unicorn-being?


A friend forwarded me the top ten Hubble telescope photos--this was around number seven or so. I thought it was the most beautiful of all. It looks like some kind of fantasy painting or the VHS cover to 80's box-office hit 'Legend.' According to the email-forward, this is what is pictured:

The glowering eyes from 114 million light years away are the swirling cores of two merging galaxies called NGC 2207 and IC 2163 in the distant Canis Major constellation.

2 comments:

Erin said...

Wrong caption! That one is the
Trifid Nebula. "A 'stellar nursery', 9,000 light years from here,
it is where new stars are being born." And I agree with you - it totally looks like evil Tim Curry ravaging something innocent in a tangle of silk sheets.

Jenni said...

Stellar Nursery, galaxies colliding...Tomato-Tomahto.