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Title: Puff, the Magic Dragon?

image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope

Puff, the Magic Dragon?

 

A dragon-shaped cloud of dust seems to fly with the stars in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope (bottom). In visible light (top), the creature disappears into the clouds -- perhaps it's "frolicking in the autumn mist" like Puff, the Magic Dragon, from the famous Peter, Paul and Mary song.

Read more about the image at
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2010-225&cid=ecard20100707.

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