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December’s Stellar Space Pictures

DEC 30, 2019
Enjoy ginormous candy canes, stellar glitter, and visiting (interstellar) neighbors this month.
December’s Stellar Space Pictures lead image

Two galaxies collide in this colorful picture from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory.

X-ray: Chandra: NASA/CXC/SAO/E. O’Sullivan; XMM: ESA/XMM/E. O’Sullivan; Optical: SDSS

(Inside Science) – We’re celebrating the end of the year with a bang of stardust and comets. This December, enjoy festive pictures of celestial candy canes made of ionized gas, a fashionable look at Saturn’s moon Enceladus, and a cosmic celebration of thousands of distant galaxies.

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