Hubble's Hidden Treasures: winners!

Bad Astronomy
By Phil Plait
Aug 24, 2012 7:25 PMNov 19, 2019 8:42 PM

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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:

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