Hubble Unveils Monster Stars

Fluorite

Locality: Hesselbach Mine, Hesselbach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Fun Science Fact:

If you just got excited, you’re a nerd

Afraid of Global Warming? Well, now there’s Galactic Warming from our dear friends, those super-massive black holes lurking just about everywhere a galaxy has sprouted up.

These wacky systems are so extreme as to completely skip out of many generations of new stars, leaving a severe stellar age gap in these galaxies, given an entirely new class called “red geysers”.

[First two images are gifs from “Space Engine”, the second is a rendering of the red geyser Akira galaxy sapping off of Tetsuo, it’s neighbor ]

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Azurite & Malachite

Locality:  Bisbee, Warren District, Mule Mts, Cochise Co., Arizona, USA

Object Names: NGC 6888, The Crecent Nebula

Image Type: Astronomical

Credit: NASA

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Aragonite

Locality: Loma Bada, Petrer, Alicante, Valencian Community, Spain

Plumbogummite

Locality:  Yangshuo Mine, Yangshuo Co., Guilin Pref., Guangxi Zhuang, China