A vast, cosmic cloudy brain looms in a nearby galaxy

Deep inside the Milky Way's companion galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud lies a vast complex of stars, gas, and dust. From our vantage point, 170,000 light years away, we see it as a softly-glowing pinkish brain-shaped cloud studded with stars -- a description that grossly underdescribes the tremendous beauty of the newly-released Hubble view of it: