While the statement 'there are no straight lines in nature' is generally true, pyrite crystals can naturally form with nearly perfect straight edges and faces.
Say hello to one of our Milky Way鈥檚 neighbors! 馃憢
This new #HubbleFriday image peers into the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy located about 200,000 light-years away.
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ALT An area of space filled with stars. Most of the stars are small, distant dots in a range of orange colors; closer stars shine with a bright glow and hold four thin diffraction spikes around them. These closer stars appear both bluish and reddish. Clouds from a nebula cover the left half of the scene, giving it a blue-greenish cast. More clouds also drift over the black background of space on the right side of the image.