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30 Doradus and The Growing Tarantula Within: A large region of star formation about 160,000 light years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

from Smithsonian Institution

• Brown Tooth said:

  Excellent shot!

• Timothy Scahill said:

  Simply amazing!

E0102-72.3: Supernova Portrait Gallery

from Smithsonian Institution

• Jaap Cost Budde said:

  a tribute for Q (james Bond films)

• Marvelous Sleep said:

  I've seen this one! It's very... violet.

• duiceburger said:

  Hi, I'm an admin for a group called NASA - Public Domain, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

• crzyone9584 said:

  This may be a portrait but it looks like a simple brush from Photoshop.

• Smithsonian Institution said:

  Hi crzyone9584, The Chandra Xray Observatory is a telescope which detects xray emissions. Different color values are assigned to the data Chandra collects, creating the images. You can learn more about it here - chandra.harvard.edu/about/ Best, Effie, Smithsonian Institution Archives