Earlier this year, the folks at the European Space Agency's Hubble HQ announced a contest called Hubble's Hidden Treasures: they wanted people to go through the massive archives of Hubble's data and look for gorgeous objects that may have been previously overlooked. This is a cool idea, and they got over 3000 submissions! They just announced the winners, and it's a collection of jaw-dropping beauty. Here's the first place winner in the "Image Processing" category, a stunner of NGC 1763, part of a massive star-forming complex in a companion galaxy to our Milky Way:
Oooo, pretty. [Click to embiggen.] That was done by Josh Lake, who won the public vote as well as the judges' with this work. It was also nice to see BABlog regular André vd Hoeven place in the contest as well. But I have to say, after looking over the winners, I would've leaned toward this ...
