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“To make this journey, we’ll need imagination, but imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine.”

These are just a few of the beautiful visual effects from Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey

In this new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, a firestorm of star birth is lighting up one end of the diminutive galaxy LEDA 36252 — also known as Kiso 5649.

(via LEDA 36252, a cosmic tadpole | ESA/Hubble)

Yup, pretty much.

The stars of the Large Magellanic Cloud

Glorious star formation in NGC 1569, a galaxy in our local neighbourhood. Taken by Hubble.

Source

Nebula Images: http://nebulaimages.com/

Astronomy articles: http://astronomyisawesome.com/

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