April 30, 2015

• In the Eagle Nebula

  The most famous, most iconic photograph taken by the Hubble Space Telescope displays huge column-like structures, sometimes called elephant trunks of interstellar gas and dust.  They are most often referred to as "the Pillars of Creation.”  Very impressive.

  

  I do not see pillars.  I do see animals.  Don't you?

  

  Once you learn to look for mammals in space, you will never be baffled by the Eagle Nebula again:

  

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