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Old 20-01-2015, 12:41 AM
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The Giant Space Slug in Puppis

Looking like a giant Exogorth or Space Slug from The Empire Strikes Back leaping out of an asteroid to devour the Millennium Falcon, this object is more commonly known as a "cometary globule" hence its more familiar name of CG4 and it is composed of dust and inonised gas. The Milenium Falcon here is in fact the distant galaxy ESO 257-19 and is many millions of light years further away.

It is also referred to as the Hand of God sometimes and I recon it's a very cool lookin object

Giant Space Slug

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Galaxy ESO257-19

Mike
I'm sure there are a few other shapes in there too..... like the sand worms from Arrakis in Dune and the Doomsday Machine from Star Trek
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