Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/VST image of the spectacular star-forming region Messier 17 (Omega Nebula).jpg

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Original – VLT Survey Telescope image of the star-forming region Messier 17.

Reason: A perfect high resolution image, featured on Commons.
Articles in which this image appears: Omega Nebula, Nebulae in fiction
FP category for this image: Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Space/Looking out
Creator: ESO/INAF-VST/OmegaCAM. Acknowledgement: OmegaCen/Astro-WISE/Kapteyn Institute

Support as nominator – JCP2018 (talk) 08:54, 16 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support – EV, and detailed. (Sidenote FWIW, there is a halo or flare next to bright stars, easy to see in the corners. Also I had a tough time opening it at full size in the browser, perhaps because of the color space.) Bammesk (talk) 00:34, 17 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support – Great-looking image! Opens full-size without problems in Firefox/Mac. BTW: that "flare" is called coma, described in detail here: Coma (optics). --Janke | Talk 15:41, 18 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support. MER-C 16:53, 18 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
Support sure — Rhododendrites ^talk \\ 23:14, 25 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:VST image of the spectacular star-forming region Messier 17 (Omega Nebula).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 09:20, 26 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]