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30 Doradus (sort of)

Hubble Space Telescope image of the nebula 30 Doradus (also known as the Tarantula Nebula) in the Large Magellanic Cloud.

 

This isn't how it really looks, as you've no doubt noticed. There were several images from Hubble - I took one in infrared and one in visible wavelengths and got the delta between them. Then, I inverted the result and applied some standard color filters along with a tonal contrast filter. It came out impressionistic...

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Uploaded on January 10, 2014
Taken on January 9, 2014