OMG!!! Check out these photos from space!

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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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1. WOW!!

Thank you so much for posting this!! Seriously amazing!

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2. The captioning is just as good as the photos. n/t

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3. ...

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That gigantic cloud of gas looks like a huge dragon jumping up to take flight off of the peak of a mountain. Or if you're not very imaginative, beer shit. But imagination aside, it's actually one huge spire of dust and gas rising off of the Eagle Nebula, and it's commonly thought to be a stellar nursery. If you're like me, the first time you hear that and then see the picture, you'll think, "Wait, that thing is big enough to make a star?" Then you'll call yourself stupid and punch your own genitals until you black out.

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/#ixzz26NZww41f

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6. looks like

"the touch" Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo.

only sideways...

and not mythological.

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4. The Rose Galaxies

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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!"

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5. most astounding, the last set of pics on p.2 at link

what was hidden in that pack of dark space