Telescope gazes into nebula’s golden eye

The European Southern Observatory's Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy, or VISTA, captured this unusual view of the Helix Nebula, a planetary nebula located 700 light-years away. The colored picture was created from images taken through three infrared filters. While bringing to light a rich background of stars and galaxies, the telescope's infrared vision also reveals strands of cold nebular gas that are mostly obscured in visible images of the Helix.A nearby planetary nebula shines like a huge golden eye in a new photo snapped by a telescope in Chile.






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now that guy could really skate!


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Peter Svennilson admiring Roman’s photos of the Soviet hockey start
who became minister of sports and education (or something like that)

I see him!


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who? Charles!? Kotov!? I can’t tell!

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