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A 30-min VLT/NACO K-band exposure has been combined with archive HST/ACS B and I-band images to produce a three-colour image of the ‘Bird’ interacting galaxy system. The NACO image has allowed astronomers to not only see the two previously known galaxies, but to identify a third, clearly separate component, an irregular, yet fairly massive galaxy that seems to form stars at a frantic rate. The final colour image was produced by Henri Boffin (ESO).
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The region’s largest hummingbird.
Nice picture, Eideard!
How about this beautiful pic? The Boomerang Nebula is the coldest region yet found in the Universe. At 1 degree above absolute zero, it’s colder than the cosmic background radiation:
No, no, no! You two got it wrong.
It’s an angel sucking the life juices from a sleeping Virgin Mary.
#3…Damn you Balbous….you beat me to it. 🙂
#3 whooaa! that is a mind numbing sexual deviation there, the fourth reich of the fundementalists will be looking for ya for that one….
please, it’s a pixie. Can’t you see the butterfly wings and human body?