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Mountain view

Deap Ocean Creatures

White Octopus at Monthra

This rare white octopus was caught on camera during a dive
on the Mothra hydrothermal vent field.

A Fangtooth - scientists still aren't exactly sure why so
many bony fishes of the deep have such enlarged,daggerlike teeth

In the Sky

Aglow

Resembling a swirling witch's cauldron of glowing vapors, the black hole-powered core of the Circinus Galaxy lies 13 million light-years away from our own.


Dorian Gray

I Zwicky 18's youthful appearance, resembling that of galaxies typically found only in the early universe, belies its true age. However, the Hubble telescope has found faint, older stars within this galaxy, suggesting that it formed at the same time as most other galaxies.


Galaxies Collide

Galaxies don't normally look like NGC 3256, this current picture of which shows two galaxies that are slowly colliding. Quite possibly, in hundreds of millions of years, only one galaxy will remain. Today, however, NGC 3256 shows intricate filaments of dark dust, unusual tidal tails of stars and a peculiar center that contains two distinct nuclei.


The 'Terrible Twos'

Young stars, like toddlers, want to start showing their independence. This Spitzer view shows a stellar version of the "terrible twos" -- the stars are beginning to move away from their formative cloud, seen in red and green. Jets can be seen coming off the young stars as they make their way into the cosmos.

Pictures from NASA

Amazing Nature

Pictures taken from http://www.df.unipi.it/~mannella/amazing.html