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I always love this kind of stuff. Historically, a lot of my desktop wallpaper has been this or astronomical photo.

As cool as it looks, though, I have to say that all of those things are so touched up and enhanced and colorized that it's almost wrong to call it a picture.

[–] xyzzy [OP] 0 points (+0|-0)

all of those things are so touched up and enhanced and colorized

Space telescopes aren't exactly like handheld cameras, so the pictures often need some editing.

a composite of separate exposures acquired by the WFC3/UVIS instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope. Several filters were used to sample narrow wavelength ranges. The color results from assigning different hues (colors) to each monochromatic (grayscale) image associated with an individual filter. In this case, the assigned colors are: Blue: F435W Green: F606W Red: F814W

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