Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Random awesome picture: Prepare to be nebulized

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Just thought I’d share this. From the Herschel observatory, the Rosette Nebula:

Herschel Observatory photo of the Rosette Nebula
[click for full size]

Awesome. You could swear this was a surrealist painting if it didn’t come with all that real info and stuff.

More info on the pic here. See a super-mega-giganta-sized version of the pic here [JPEG image, 7087×5412, 11396.45 KB].

(via Bad Astronomy)