Image courtesy ESO
The palette of pandemonium colors an interstellar cloud red, blue, and black as stars form within.
This image, captured by a telescope at the European Southern Observatory's La Silla Observatory at the fringe of Chile's Atacama Desert, shows a cloud of mostly hydrogen gas glowing red as electrons, freed by blasts of intense energy, recombine with the atoms. The blue area at right is reflected starlight bouncing off particles of dust. The dark splotches are regions where the dust is too thick for light to penetrate.
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