Beauty lies in the eyes of beholder
Incredibly bright isolated star in a nearby galaxy, VFTS 682, is three million times brighter than the Sun and was spotted during a survey of the most brilliant stars in and around the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The most detailed image of particle jets erupting from a supermassive black hole in the nearby galaxy of Centaurus A Tiny green crystals, called olivine, thought to be raining down on a developing star. This picture was taken in infrared light by Spitzer and the arrow points to the embryonic star, called HOPS-68. The olivine crystals are suspected to have been transported into the outer cloud around the developing star, or protostar. This picturesque group of interacting galaxies is called Arp 273. The larger of the two galaxies, called UGC 1810, has been distorted by the gravitational tidal pull of its smaller neighbour, UGC 1813. The blue lights across the top of the larger galaxy are from clusters of intensely bright an...