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Did you know that the Spanish Dancer (Hexabranchus Sanguineus) is a large species of sea slug? They get their common name from their resemblance to a traje de flamenca that you would see in Spain while they're swimming. This swimming beauty creates a poison from eating sea sponges that it then spreads onto its otherwise defenceless egg ribbon.
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Photo by Jeff Walthall
NGC 1566, also known as the "Spanish Dancer" galaxy, is a bright, active spiral galaxy located about 60 million light-years away in the Dorado constellation. It is a Seyfert galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its center and is known for its prominent, symmetrical spiral arms, which are filled with young, blue stars and star-forming regions. Its face-on view and active nucleus make it a popular subject for astronomical study.
Carmencita
Artist: William Merritt Chase (American, 1849–1916)
Date: 1890
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, United States
Description
"Carmencita" was born in 1868 in Almería, on the southeastern coast of Spain. She became famous there and in France for her dancing during the 1880s. After her 1889 New York debut, she received many requests for private performances. The painter John Singer Sargent arranged for her to perform in Chase’s Tenth Street studio in 1890. Soon after, Chase painted this lively portrait, in which he signaled audience enthusiasm by depicting gifts of a gold bracelet and flowers tossed at the dancer’s feet. Sargent painted his own portrait of Carmencita (Musée d’Orsay, Paris) the same year.
The Spanish Dancer, NGC 1566 // Thomas Deffet
What's this? A Spanish dancer (Hexabranchus sanguineus), a sea slug species that looks ready for flamenco.
John Rea Neill (1877-1943) Spanish dancer with four other women, illustration for an unknown publication (c.1925) Source
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Submitted for classification by @blogjustforasks
"Enypniastes eximia, a species of sea cucumber that can swim. Other names include: Swimming Sea Cucumber, Headless Chicken Fish, Headless Chicken Monster, Spanish Dancer, and Pink See-Through Fantasia."