Happy Valentine’s Day from outer space, everyone! This image shows two galaxies, cataloged as NGC 4038 and NGC 4039 and sometimes called antenna galaxies, in full collision. Image using APOD.
Happy Valentine’s Day! We share love by celebrating some of the many heart-shaped objects you can find from the depths of space to the closest to our solar system neighborhood to here on Earth.
View larger. | Here’s IC1805, also known as the Heart Nebula, a popular target for astrophotographers, through EarthSky community member Justin Ng.
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We also love Pluto! The New Horizons mission, which spread closer to Pluto on July 13, 2015, revealed unique surface marks, including this light-colored area that traces a huge heart to the planet. Image via NASA / APL / SwRI.
Mars has a lot of heart! These 10 images of craters with distinctive heart shapes were taken by Mars Global Surveyor between 2001 and 2004. Image via NASA / JPL / Malin Space Science Systems.
We show a little love for this little heart-shaped depression on the surface of the moon, photographed during the extravehicular activity of Apollo 12 on November 19, 1969. In the background you can see the legs of the astronaut Charles Conrad Jr. Image via NASA.
Back on Earth, we find this heart-shaped island in the Republic of Croatia that is only 50 meters wide. This is Galesnjak, nicknamed the island of lovers. This beautiful prey was taken by ALOS, the Earth observation satellite of Japan. Image via ESA.
This dark green lake is part of the Aral Sea in Kazakhstan with a heart shape that seems to bleed a thin stream of emerald liquid. Perhaps his heart breaks because this shrinking sea is considered one of the worst environmental disasters on the planet. Image using World Top Top.
Heart-shaped leaves are common on Earth, and sometimes heart-shaped flowers can also be found, such as this bleeding heart plant. Image by annie pm / Unsplash.
Conclusion: The shape of hearts is ubiquitous in the universe, as seen through these photos from small petals on Earth to galaxies in the distant universe.
