The picture is an infrared portrait of enormous cosmic dust clouds strewn across the Milky Way's satellite galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud. There is something about it, perhaps the way the lighting looks, that render it both heavenly and hellish in appearance. It's a composite image fom the Herschel Space Observatory and Spitzer Space Telescope. The Large Megellanic Cloud, 30,000 light-years across and 160,000 light-years away from Earth, is a neighboring dwarf galaxy, filled with dust clouds in which temperatures denote the occurrence of star formation. Where there are blue hues, there is warm dust heated by younger stars. The red and green show dust emission from cooler and intermediate regions of beginning star formation. The brightest region is actually the Tarantula Nebula.
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