Starship Asterisk*

30 Doradus as seen by VISTA: Composite of VISTA DR1 images in Y/J/Ks. The original image (which is also available as a 3-color jpg) has ~192 Mpix from which I cut out the 30 Dor region. The image becomes most impressive when one can see the resolution at 100%, so check out the original linked to my ...

M31 from the newly released All Sky coverage of the WISE infrared mission
R/G/B = WISE3+4/WISE2/WISE1
much larger version available here.

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