A ghostly cat is lurking in space, and NASA captured it
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“NASA's Hubble and Webb telescopes have imaged the Cat's Head Nebula, a region 7,500 light-years away where new stars are forming within cosmic dust clouds.”
Why It's Weird
Animals have an uncanny ability to surprise us with behaviors we never thought possible. The moderate weirdness score suggests this is unusual but not completely unprecedented.
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