Brains in space

NASA, ESA and Jesús Maíz Apellániz (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Spain)

One of the latest images from the Hubble Space Telescope is this gorgeous picture of a brain in space. Actually, it's a cloud of star-forming gas in the Large Magellanic Cloud, and astronomers call it N-11 or the Bean Nebula. The bright blue stars in the image are newborns: you can read more about the image and what it shows at the Hubble site.

Thanks to the Bad Astronomer for pointing out the resemblance to a brain.