IC 2163, NGC 2207 Wall Art T-shirts and hotter stars appear bluer

and hotter stars appear bluer

the just-now-visible south pole has a blue hue

it is one of the brightest radio sources in the whole sky

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These elements are all present in this image — the mixture of glowing gas and dark dust has been sculpted into complex patterns on the sky by the stellar radiation

IC 2163, NGC 2207 Wall Art T-shirts and hotter stars appear bluerIn the direction of the constellation Canis Major, two spiral galaxies pass by each other like majestic ships in the night. The near collision has been caught in images taken by the NASA ESA Hubble Space Telescope and its Wide Field Planetary Camera 2. Credit: NASA ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI)