This looks like the tangle of colored threads at the bottom of a sewing basket, but it's the remnants of a supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a small companion galaxy to our Milky Way. Eventually the gases and particles that shine so brilliantly here will be recycled into new stars, maybe new planets.
Now that I have finished all the draft postings from my trip to Iran, I need to finish going through pictures and write about some of the things I skipped. But for now, I want to just take a deep breath, be home, be grateful to be here.
Image Credit: NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
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