Astrophotographer Ronald Brecher captured a haunting vista in July earlier this year, in which several deep-sky objects take on the collective appearance of a colossal cosmic shark hunting in the depths of space.
The body of Brecher's shark is comprised of a vast interstellar cloud of dust and gas that stretches for 15 light-years from snout to tail in the constellation Cepheus, some 650 light-years from Earth. The radiation of energetic stars has sculpted the cloud into the form of a gaping maw, while the suggestions of dorsal and pectoral fins are visible as your eyes sweep right across the "shark's" nebulous body.
