Taking to Instagram yesterday, NASA shared the image taken by its Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes of Arp 142 which “bears an uncanny resemblance to a penguin guarding an egg.”
The two galaxies are 23 million light-years from Earth — 10 times farther from home than the Andromeda galaxy.
The ‘penguin’ is officially known as NGC 2936; its newly-formed stars are seen in bluish filaments as captured by the Hubble telescope; the strands of gas mixed with dust are seen as red filaments which are detected by the longer wavelengths of infrared light by the Spitzer telescope.
