Ok, for starters, I had to go to Wikipedia to confirm that this wasn’t fake. Secondly, this might be the wildest astronomy photo I’ve seen in my entire life. This is the Rosette Nebula, and it for real looks like someone photoshopped it to look like a human skull.

(hat tip to Curtis Morgan, who is the astronomer/photographer who took this photo)

Screenshots of Wikipedia confirmation of this nebula’s existence will be below, in the replies.

#Astronomy #RosetteNebula #Science

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