The first thing that one sees when viewing this image is the striking blue brilliance of the clouds of gas reflecting light off of stars. This cosmic scene is located less than 500 light-years away from us, near the northern edge of Corona Australis, the Southern Crown. Despite only taking up about a degree in our field of view, the clouds depicted here are magnificent when magnified. The blue tinge of the cosmic clouds is due to their reflection of light off of hot young stars obscured by them. Among the vast blue clouds there are also various other interesting celestial bodies, such as the spiral seen to the center left of the picture and the red orb seen in the lower left center. At the center of the two main bodies of blue cosmic dust there also appears to be two pairs of double stars, embedded in the blue double cluster. The effect is one of cosmic brilliance.
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