Saturday, January 31, 2015

Mouth Of The Beast Or God’s Hand? Amazing Photo Of’ Cometary Globule’ CG4 – 29 January 2015


Image from eso.org
Image from eso.org
A newly published ghostly image from space as been dubbed the ‘Mouth of the Beast’ by astronomers working with Europe’s Very Large Telescope. The exact nature of the cloud of gas and dust is a mystery, and has been called a ‘cometary globule’.
The strange phenomenon is about 1,300 light-years from Earth in the constellation Puppis, which is also known as the Poop Deck or Stern. Cometary globule CG4 has nothing to do with comets – it’s actually a faint nebula, despite its bright and vivid colors as seen in thephotopublished () by the European Southern Observatory Wednesday.

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