The spiral galaxy M83 highlighting red regions of glowing gas and dust, where new stars and planets are forming. It's been called the galaxy of a thousand rubies. Image composed by Robert Gendler from Hubble and other telescope data.

Beautiful composite image by #RobertGendler of galaxy M83, 12 million lightyears away. The red regions are nebulae, where gas clouds are glowing with the energy of recently-formed baby stars within them.
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