A friend sent these to me with others as a slideshow of the photos voted Hubbles' Top 10. They are so awesome they make me feel rather weird, especially snippets of information like 'the distance across this is 2.5 light years - 23 million return trips to the moon.' The names the boffins have given them don't do them justice so I haven't included them.
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The first one certainly has the air of creation about it. It has all the colours and some vestiges of a Renaissance chapel ceiling.
Cheers Gillian
I think that's the place called the star nursery because it is just that - a centre from which new stars are spinning out of gaseous debris. The Renaissance painters must have been in touch with something cosmological!
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