Kali ma... Kali ma... Kali ma, shakti deh!

Bad Astronomy
By Phil Plait
Aug 10, 2011 4:02 PMNov 19, 2019 9:35 PM

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[I suppose this post has a PG-13 rating. Not for language or nudity, but for what may be a (humorously) disturbing image for some folks. Be ye fairly warned, says I.] So the European Southern Observatory took the Very Large Telescope, pointed it at NGC 1929 -- a cluster of stars 180,000 light years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud -- and got this amazing picture:

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