NGC 1929 Is Looking To Inflict Street Justice On A Cosmic Scale.

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While Phil Plait sees a monkey with a gaping hole in its skull when looking at NGC 1929, I see one-half of the Punisher’s symbol. To each his own. Regardless of your psychic disposition when reading this image, NGC 1929 is a rather gorgeous gathering of stars.

Bad Astronomy:

[This] huge bubble – over 300 light years across! – is being blown into the gas surrounding the cluster by the combined mighty winds of the stars inside it, young massive stars that live short, violent lives that end in short, violent deaths, and how this will compress the gas further and induce even more star formation, but how in the meantime they’re flooding the gas with powerful ultraviolet radiation that’s lighting up the gas precisely like a neon sign, and how amazingly detailed this image is despite the cluster and gas being  in another galaxy  at a distance of nearly 2  quintillion  kilometers…

Space! The final frontier for Punishing would-be cosmic criminals.