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OMG!!! Check out these photos from space!
Stars (and galaxies!) exploding, gas clouds, etc.
http://www.cracked.com/blog/11-deep-space-photos-you-wont-believe-arent-photoshopped/
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Known in the scientific community by its more poetic name of ARP 273, this is an image of two galaxies caught in a gravitational clusterfuck after the smaller one passed through the larger one. What we get is a tidal pull on the lower galaxy, stretching it out into a stemlike structure, its bulge forming the single-leaf look we all recognize from a trimmed rose. It's God's way of telling space, "Come on, baby, don't be like that. I didn't mean it. Look, I made you this flower out of galaxies. Don't look at me like that. Fine! Don't come running to me when a massive black hole starts tearing ass through space and sucking up all your shit!"
Read more: 11 Deep Space Photos You Won't Believe Aren't Photoshopped | Cracked.com http://www.cracked.com/blog/11-deep-space-photos-you-wont-believe-arent-photoshopped/#ixzz26NdtnNPf