Tapestry of Blazing Starbirth Enhanced
by Weston Westmoreland
Title
Tapestry of Blazing Starbirth Enhanced
Artist
Weston Westmoreland
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Tapestry of Blazing Starbirth, enhanced, or a cosmic Gandalf blowing a smoke ring.
Since there is no such thing as up and down in outer space, I always turn Hubble images when I edit them. This one had the blue nebula on the bottom left, but when I turned it the old man blowing smoke appeared and I cannot unsee it.
This image is one of the most photogenic examples of the many turbulent stellar nurseries the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has observed during its 30-year lifetime. The portrait features the giant nebula NGC 2014 and its neighbour NGC 2020 which together form part of a vast star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, approximately 163 000 light-years away.
Original images and text by NASA, ESA, and STScI. Further image enhancements and post processing by Weston Westmoreland.
Many more NASA and Hubble enhanced images one copy-paste away in my gallery at https://weston-westmoreland.pixels.com/collections/astronomy
Weston Westmoreland
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November 5th, 2020
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