Space Photos of the Week: Strap on Your Space Goggles and Bask in the Starlight

This dreamy photo combines visible light from the Hubble Space Telescope (the purples) and high-frequency light from the Chandra X-ray Observatory (the blues) to showcase the activity at this extremely active star-forming region, called NGC 604, located within Messier 33. (French astronomer Charles Messier began spotting and cataloguing nebulae and star clusters in the early …

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