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May 4, 2021: Toadfish

A toadfish peeking out from its burrow during a dive to explore Keller Canyon, about 26 miles from Cape Hatteras, North Carolina

Image courtesy of the NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Windows to the Deep 2018. Download larger version (jpg, 953 KB).

Space slug waiting to ingest the Millennium Falcon and its passengers as they hide from the Empire in Hoth’s asteroid belt? Nope. Just a toadfish peeking out from its burrow during a dive to explore Keller Canyon, about 26 miles from Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, as part of the Windows to the Deep 2018: Exploration of the Southeast U.S. Continental Margin expedition.

Happy Star Wars Day! May the Fourth be with you!